Creative Feel
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Creative Feel
Sold. Valued. Recognised. This sticker validates the creative vision of an emerging artist. Presented by RMB in collaboration with Assemblage, the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) and the Turbine Art Fair, Talent Unlocked is a six-month mentorship programme that upskills young artists through learning about and participating in the creative economy. On completion, the artists are given the opportunity to exhibit at the Fair. This is the most measurable example of RMB helping artists to establish themselves in Africa’s art world.
Talent Unlocked
RMB: unlocking talent and social transformation through the creative arts.
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A look at promising young South African artists
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Creating possibilities through excellence Artist Proof Studio is one of the most successful visual arts education facilities in South Africa, producing top-quality artists and printmakers who are respected worldwide. They are leaders in fine art printmaking excellence, specialising in arts training, print collaborations, partnerships, sales and the distribution of prints.
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rtist Proof Studio (APS) is a community-based
hosting, publishing and collaborative projects with many
printmaking centre in Newtown, Johannesburg,
artists and organisations each year. Some of these students
founded by Kim Berman and the late Nhlanhla
are further sponsored to achieve a university degree.
Xaba in 1991.
One of the largest and most vibrant printmaking
APS has 30 staff members and interns on its payrolls. The organisation employs its fourth-year graduates as interns.
facilities in Southern Africa, the organisation’s core
Through this programme, they receive professional work
function is to create ‘possibilities through excellence’. This
experience and are expected to independently produce work
extends from their education programme, which subsidises
that can be showcased on all of APS’ sales platforms.
and trains talented young artists, to their alumni and associated artists. APS’ education programme accommodates up to 100 students per year, 60 to 80 of which are fully subsidised by
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Some of the current well-known young artists have either graduated from or been associated with APS, like Nicholas Hlobo who became a protégé in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé programme and whose artworks can be seen
