by Marion Ellis | Aug 22, 2023 | Art & Design Matters, Heritage & History Matters, Insightful Matters
‘STITCHED, A STORY OF OUR HOME’ The quintessentially African scene depicts a rich landscape of trees, lush vegetation and birds such as Grey Herons and Little Egrets that feature prominently in the Kei River Estuary in Hamburg, rendered in the inimitable embroidery...
by Marion Ellis | Jun 17, 2023 | Art & Design Matters, Insightful Matters
The Venice Architecture Biennale is the most influential architecture event that explores the transformative power of contemporary architecture to find solutions and build an environmentally friendly future… “Africa is the laboratory of the future,” explains...
by Marion Ellis | Apr 24, 2023 | Art & Design Matters, Insightful Matters
The world’s most prestigious competition – Operalia (a springboard for opera singers) – was founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo to discover and help launch the careers of today’s most promising young opera singers. In 2023 Rolex is proudly presenting...
by Marion Ellis | Jul 7, 2022 | Art & Design Matters, Insightful Matters
Architecture and design studio Snøhetta has installed a path of stones off the coast of Norway that emerges and disappears with the tide to illustrate “the passing of time”. The project’s “main inspiration is time” and how it can be...
by Marion Ellis | Jun 8, 2022 | Art & Design Matters, Insightful Matters, Visionary Matters
To remember South African musical legend Johnny Clegg, here’s a favourite song that he gave the world …that “made our hearts feel as strong as the African day”… And as Nelson Mandela said when joining Johnny on stage ”music and dancing make me at peace...
by Marion Ellis | Oct 25, 2021 | Art & Design Matters, Food & Wine Matters, Heritage & History Matters, Insightful Matters
Cape Town is South Africa’s crown jewel and the most European city you’ll find on the African continent. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, it was South Africa’s first attempt at a modern metropolis on the southwestern tip of Africa,...
