The 10th annual FNB Art Prize has been awarded to Cape Town-based visual artist Laura Windvogel, aka Lady Skollie.

“As someone who never fit in, someone who dropped out of art school, someone who only got South African representation at the age of 31, winning a local art prize makes me feel like my existence in it is validated,” she says.

Image credit: Stuart Whipps. Courtesy East Side Projects, Birmingham.

Her striking works revolve around themes of identity, gender, sex and lust. Represented by the gallery Everard Read, Lady Skollie will be holding her second solo exhibition at the Cape Town gallery from 11 November 2020. Entitled BOUND, the exhibition “references writings by and about women in captivity, women in isolation, woman in shackles, chains, manacles and collars; she wonders about cages, revenge, tunnels with light at the end but more times absolute darkness and a life spent expecting to be released from evil.”

As the 10th recipient of the FNB Art Prize, she receives a page online for FNB Art Joburg, taking place from the 6 – 18 November, a cash prize and an international residency.

The winner of the FNB Art Prize was chosen by a committee, which included Khwezi Gule (Chief Curator, Johannesburg Art Gallery), Aspasia Karras (Publisher: Sunday Times Lifestyle, Edit, Edit Man, Business Day Wanted and Sowetan Magazine) and Nicole Siegenthaler (FNB Art Joburg Fair Manager).

Follow Lady Skollie on Instagram to keep up to date with her work.

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Artist and activist Haroon Gunn-Salie has been announced as the 2018 winner of the prestigious FNB Art Prize, ahead of the 11th annual FNB JoburgArtFair.

Haroon joins an esteemed succession of previous winners including Peju Alatise, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Turiya Magadlela, Portia Zvavahera and Kudzanai Chiurai. Haroon walks away with a cash prize and the thrilling opportunity to create a new project that will be exhibited at the FNB JoburgArtFair next month.

Chief Marketing Officer at FNB, Faye Mfikwe, says that the FNB Art Prize aims to honour exemplary artistic talent as well as provide the winner with exciting opportunities both locally and internationally.

Hailing from Cape Town and based between Johannesburg and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Haroon has a BA Hons in sculpture, which he received from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012. His graduation exhibition, Witness, showcased a location-specific body of work that explored the unresolved issues of the apartheid-era forced removals.

Haroon’s installation at the FNB JoburgArtFair continues to explore other deeply intricate issues in contemporary South African history with another location-based installation, Senzenina. This transportive installation takes the viewer back in time with a life-like soundscape complete with calls for mineworkers to disengage protests, the echoes of workers trapped by police, an anti-apartheid freedom song interrupted by open gunfire, and bomb blasts followed by low-frequency sonic vibrations bouncing off the surrounding granite boulders.

The FNB JoburgArtFair runs from 7 to 9 September 2018. See the full list of exhibitors and buy your tickets, here.

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