The artists who will participate in the show courtesy of the Artist Residency Centre ARC are Ann Gollifer, Visule Kabunda, Naomi Loabile, Kim Karabo Makin and Giancarlo Diablo Santana. They join another crew, which is going to the fair courtesy of ReCurate. Gollifer was born in 1960 in the Barima-Waini region of Guyana. She was an executive member of the Thapong International Artists Workshops, founded in Botswana by Veryan Edwards and supported by Robert Loder, co-founder of the Triangle Workshops network.
She was part of the team that founded the Thapong Visual Art Centre, Gaborone. In 2019, she co-founded the Art Residency Centre, Gaborone, with Maipelo Gabang, and currently helps run the centre with a community of young Batswana artists. She works from her Gaborone studio, in a process-based, material practice. She is represented by the Guns and Rain Gallery, Johannesburg. Meanwhile, Kabunda is a Zambian-born photographer and graphic designer whose work explores the intersection of belonging and identity. Through a weaving of photography and design, Visule engages in a multifaceted artistic practice aimed at disseminating personal narratives and promoting counter-hegemonic change. This approach is rooted in his commitment to finding form and expression for his lived experiences and in extending this commitment to others by inviting them to explore and articulate their unique narratives through self-publishing. In his photographic work, Visule examines the impact of geographical and cultural displacement on his evolving understanding of home. These themes are deeply explored through his upbringing within the transnational space connecting Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa. On the other hand, Loabile is an interdisciplinary designer fascinated by how spaces can function, and their spatial use. The state of being of a person can alter depending on the interior environment they surround themselves with. Carrying into speculative design, form and function of furniture and products, material research, culture, heritage and identity, storytelling/writing, textile, and print works. Crossing disciplines to create different works that overlap and gel together. She is rooted in her creative process through the use of her own hands to craft and create. Feeling the materials and the project coming to life through various stages. Born in Gaborone, Makin is a multidisciplinary artist and occasional DJ.
