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		<title>Fleeting Glimpses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photo journey of a breast cancer survivor PHOTOGRAPHY: KARINA TUROK ARTIST: KAREN STEWART This series of documentary photographs tracks the story of years of treatment and the psychological transformation, as well as the emotional and physical highs and lows, following a breast cancer diagnosis. The work is playful, humorous, tragic, and head-on; deliberately moving beyond the medicalised, objectified body. Instead, the images focus on Karen’s lived experience. While the subject matter is serious, the work engages the healing process with creativity and positivity; adding empowering imagery to the cancer narrative. The intention is to honour the complexity of survival and to heighten awareness of the realities of cancer treatment; offering comfort and recognition to those who feel isolated. While these are portraits of one person, we hope others may identify with these portraits of life with cancer, finding empathy and even perhaps seeing themselves reflected. The photographic narrative brings to light the often hidden and intimate experience of our human capacity to endure and heal. Karina adds her light touch and incredible eye and deep knowing of what needs to happen in the fleeting moment. Karen’s approach is in the power of her vulnerability, stripping down to a brave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excitement mounts as three public installations and a dedicated exhibition open a week ahead of Open Studios Fish Hoek &amp; Clovelly 2026 </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The art action starts early! Open Studios Fish Hoek &#38; Clovelly (OSFHC) returns from 9 to 11 October 2026 with an expanded programme of artists, studios and creative spaces, inviting the public behind the scenes of the Southern Peninsula’s vibrant contemporary art community. Things kick off a week before the main event, with an exhibition and three installations going live ahead of the official start date. Building up to the event Opening on 1 October, the upstairs section of AP Jones will host an exhibition by distinguished South African artist Elizabeth Vels, who recently celebrated her 89th birthday. The show, A Cabinet of Curiosities: Recording and Recalling a Very Long Life, will feature artworks past and present, including ceramics, oil paintings and works on paper. Born in 1937, Vels has held 14 solo exhibitions over her career. She is recognised as one of South Africa’s early papermakers and artist’s bookmakers, practices she has pursued since the late 1970s. This exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter the breadth of an unusually diverse and materially adventurous practice developed over more than five decades. Viewers are invited to consider how Vels has continually pushed the boundaries between fine art, craft, bookmaking and material [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we be planting for today&#8217;s market, or tomorrow&#8217;s realities?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every vineyard is a long-term investment in an uncertain future. As climate conditions shift, markets evolve and new technologies emerge, producers are being challenged to make decisions today that will shape South African wine for generations to come. Wine has always been an industry built on patience, where great vineyards are measured in generations, not seasons. But as environmental and commercial pressures change, tradition alone is no longer enough to guarantee resilience. Innovation is no longer optional; it&#8217;s a matter of &#8216;when&#8217;, not &#8216;if&#8217;. But that&#8217;s a difficult truth in an industry where a single wrong decision doesn&#8217;t just cost a season; it can cost a generation. Nowhere is the shift from tradition to necessity clearer than beneath the ground. Rootstocks were once viewed as a practical necessity, protecting vines against pests like phylloxera and helping them adapt to soil conditions. Today, their role has expanded into something more strategic: influencing vine vigour, drought tolerance, nutrient uptake and overall performance. When combined with careful cultivar selection, they also help producers build vineyards suited to conditions decades in the future. From rootstocks to gene editing: the next frontier If rootstocks represent viticulture&#8217;s first great act of future-proofing, the industry may now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate the arrival of Spring. Pop open a tin of paint!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is loosening its grip. The days are becoming longer and warmer, and as colour returns to the world through bud burst and bloom, the urge to reset your space is setting in. One of the simplest, highest-impact ways to do that is to refresh the colour on your walls. Spring, with its returning greens, soft blossoms and clear open skies, is a naturally inspiring colour reference. The ‘fifth wall’ and the art of colour drenching Designers are increasingly treating the ceiling as a surface with as much potential to add personality and atmosphere as the four walls of a room.  Colour drenching, pulling a single hue across every surface in a room (walls, ceiling, cornices, skirting and trim), has been building momentum for a couple of years, but the trend has shifted. Homeowners once kept it safe with neutrals; now they&#8217;re going bold. Think a room drenched in the blushed depth of Ruby Tuesday (R5-B2-2), or ceiling, walls and trim unified in the unapologetic red of Hot-N-Spicy (R6-B1-1), both from Plascon&#8217;s Fashion + Candy Colour World.  If a full colour drench feels like a stretch, there is plenty of personality to be found in the details. Run a shade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ready to light up SA: The Nando&#8217;s Hot Young Designer (HYD) LINEAR LIGHTS finalists announced! </title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s longest-standing design mentorship programme, Nando&#8217;s Hot Young Designer (HYD), has announced the top 10 finalists in its latest talent search. The challenge to emerging designers was to create a linear light fixture suited to any Nando&#8217;s restaurant, anywhere in the world. Managed on behalf of Nando&#8217;s by Clout/SA, HYD is a biennial design competition and business accelerator, and one of South Africa&#8217;s premier initiatives of its kind. For the past decade, this platform has been instrumental in propelling the careers of emerging creatives by unearthing exceptional talent and introducing local design to Nando&#8217;s restaurants globally. Following a legacy of celebrated design focuses for the talent search, from patterns to benches, that have run every two years, the sixth edition challenged creators to redefine contemporary lighting by submitting a concept focused on the sleek geometry of linear lights. The selection process to unearth the top 10 was rigorous. The entries were assessed and evaluated by a judging panel of almost 20 design-industry leaders and previous HYD winners. The judges included Paula Baúlde Portas, who is Head of Marketing at Maison&#38;Objet in Paris; Thabisa Mjo of Mash.T Design Studio; experiential lighting designer Martin Döller of One to One; Nikhil Tricam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plascon Orchard + Blooms: A colour world rooted in abundance, growth and everyday joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lush, generous and full of life, Orchard + Blooms is a colour world inspired by the sensory richness of fruit markets, garden centres and flourishing outdoor spaces. It celebrates abundance in all its forms like ripened produce, layered foliage and sun-warmed petals. It’s the palette that brings vitality indoors through expressive, organic colour. One of four colour worlds within the Plascon Colour Forecast 2026, Orchard + Blooms sits alongside Butter + Sky, Land + Sea, and Fashion + Candy. Together, the worlds form part of the overarching theme ‘HAND, made’, which foregrounds the human touch, natural cycles and the textures of daily life as key design influences for the year. Orchard + Blooms is the most overtly organic of the four worlds. It draws from the colours we associate with nourishment and growth: peach and orange blossoms, olive-green leaves, deep terracottas and the rich tones of fruit at peak ripeness. The result is a palette that feels grounded yet joyful. This speaks to a broader shift in how we want our homes to feel in 2026. As life becomes increasingly fast-paced and digitally mediated, there is a growing desire to reconnect with the rhythms of nature and the comfort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plascon raises the bar for heavy-duty roof waterproofing with new product, Plascon RubberTUFF</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waterproofing is one of the fastest-growing categories in the South African home improvement market, with good reason. Because when roof coatings fail, the damage to homes can be far-reaching. Plascon&#8217;s new Plascon RubberTUFF Waterproofer is a heavy-duty, reinforced waterproofing system built to protect South African roofs against the conditions that cause most coatings to fail prematurely, while offering retailers a category-leading profit opportunity in a market growing at approximately 10% annually.  At the heart of Plascon RubberTUFF&#8217;s performance is its rubber-acrylic formulation, which gives the coating exceptional elasticity of up to 400% elongation. This is what makes it tough. As a building&#8217;s structure expands and contracts with temperature changes, or as existing cracks shift, Plascon RubberTUFF moves with it to prevent cracking under stress. This material property distinguishes a heavy-duty waterproofer from standard roof paint and underpins Plascon RubberTUFF&#8217;s 12-year guarantee. Roof coating and dedicated waterproofer in one Plascon RubberTUFF functions as both a high-performance roof coating and a dedicated waterproofing membrane. In waterproofing mode, it forms a seamless, continuous barrier capable of withstanding water ingress, including on flat or low-pitched areas where water is slow to drain. Straightforward enough for a weekend DIY project, and robust enough for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Studios Fish Hoek &amp; Clovelly returns this October with its biggest line-up yet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Town&#8217;s Deep South opens its doors as Open Studios Fish Hoek &#38; Clovelly (OSFHC) returns for its 2026 edition from Friday, 9 October to Sunday, 11 October. The self-guided art trail invites the public into the studios of over 30 artists at 20 locations across Fish Hoek and Clovelly, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at how local art is made, from painting and printmaking to ceramics, sculpture and mixed media. Mosaic by Mel Miller Since its inaugural edition last year, the event has grown from 19 featured artists to more than 30 this year, including two new shared studio hubs, Mothership Studios and Fish Hoek Studios, each housing a cluster of artists working across painting, sculpture, illustration and mixed media. Despite the leap in scale, every participating artist is put forward by a dedicated selection committee, keeping the same curatorial standard that defines Open Studios Fish Hoek &#38; Clovelly (OSFHC). Newcomers to this year&#8217;s trail include bronze sculptor Chris Bladen, whose finely detailed sculptures of fish and birds draw on his own fly-fishing and birdwatching; oil painter Mandy Lake, whose ocean-inspired abstractions have been shown in galleries from George to Ballito; and photographer Angela Buckland, with work exhibited at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delete Nton’ntoni: Four artists propose a radical reset for contemporary art in Cape Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new group exhibition at Cape Town’s HUB Gallery challenges the culture of artistic individualism and asks what becomes possible when artists create in dialogue, rather than in isolation. HUB Gallery is pleased to present Delete Nton’ntoni, a new group exhibition by four contemporary artists, Tafadzwa Tega, Lwando Dlamini, Knowledge Marongedza and Luyanda Mkhuthungu and curated by Tafadzwa Tega, taking place from 6 August to 26 October. Delete Nton’ntoni is a deliberate interruption of the creative isolation that has increasingly characterised Cape Town’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition takes its name from two distinct sources. Nton’ntoni is an isiXhosa term meaning ‘and so forth’ or ‘something like that’, a phrase that speaks to habitual repetition, to the default mode of doing things without questioning. The second reference is the digital command Ctrl+Z, which serves as a symbol for deleting, rethinking and reimagining the systems and habits that no longer serve. Together, the title frames the exhibition’s central proposition: that the growing culture of individualism among Black African artists in Cape Town, while powerful in its own right, has also produced creative silos. Delete Nton’ntoni proposes a reset. A return to dialogue, shared presence, and collective creative practice that claps back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa makes world-class winemakers. Does it make world-class wine businesses?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A winemaker spends years mastering fermentation, soil science and sensory analysis. Then they open a wine business and discover nobody taught them how to read a balance sheet, build a brand or have a conversation with their marketing team. South Africa has spent decades perfecting the craft of wine, but the harder question is whether it is building businesses capable of sustaining that excellence in an increasingly complex market. Deep roots, shallow reach Climate variability, water scarcity and environmental pressure now require a different kind of thinking, not just optimisation, but anticipation and the ability to manage risk before it becomes a crisis. As Carlos Poblete-Echeverría, Associate Professor in Digital Viticulture at Stellenbosch University and coordinator of the Digital Agriculture Research Group at SAGWRI explains, the shift towards systems-thinking and decision making under uncertainty is redefining the skillset the next generation will need. Digital viticulture has already changed what happens in the vineyard. Sensors, modelling systems and real-time monitoring tools have moved decision-making from reactive to predictive, and graduates are no longer just learning what to do but why certain decisions succeed or fail under specific conditions without having to ‘wait and see’ in the vineyard. Technical mastery only takes [...]]]></description>
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