ArtAngels

Ellerman House ArtAngels is an annual charity art auction showcasing the best of SA art, food and win The whole ethos is to have a good party for a good cause.

Ellerman House ArtAngels is an annual charity art auction showcasing the best of SA art, food and wine for the benefit of The Click Foundation (www.clickfoundation.co.za). Top South African donate works that are auctioned at the event. As of March 2017, the events have raised over R12m for the Click Foundation's foundation phase online English literacy programme being implemented with over 27,000 primary school learners across South Africa. In 2017 we are taking the event overseas for the first time, starting in London in May 2017.

05/10/2026

🎨 Philip Barlow
🖼️ LEXINGTON
📅 2025
🖌️ Oil on linen
📐 120 x 80 cm
🏛️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Philip Barlow describes his work as a step towards abstraction, using photography as the starting point for paintings that explore light, colour and perception. His blurred imagery softens the certainty of what we see, allowing careful tonal shifts and luminous colour to reshape familiar relationships between people and place. At the centre of his practice is the search for a fleeting instant when form, light and colour align, what he describes as capturing “the moment”.

In Lexington, this interest in the split second is translated into oil on linen. Detail gives way to atmosphere, while figures and their surroundings are held together through light rather than sharp definition. The result sits between the recognisable and the abstract, encouraging a closer look at how Barlow finds harmony and beauty within even the grit and complexity of the city.

30/09/2026

🎨 Zander Blom
🖼️ MINIATURE GROUP 1
📅 2025–2026
🖌️ Oil on linen
📐 Sizes variable
🏛️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Zander Blom approaches abstraction as an ongoing investigation into what a painting can do. Born in Pretoria and now based in Cape Town, his practice has long engaged with the history of modernist abstraction while resisting fixed formulas. He describes his process as a kind of “science of the picture plane”, continually testing relationships between line, shape, depth and movement to find new possibilities within paint.

Miniature Group 1 brings that exploration into a more intimate format. Created across 2025 and 2026, the group of oil paintings on linen reduces the physical scale without reducing the intensity of Blom’s enquiry. Each miniature becomes its own concentrated study of composition, asking the viewer to move closer and notice the decisions, tensions and relationships held within a remarkably small field.

28/09/2026

A look back at the colour, energy and generosity that made ArtAngels 2025 such an extraordinary evening. Together, our artists, collectors, partners and supporters helped raise a record-breaking R9 million, turning a celebration of South African creativity into meaningful support for education and the arts.

Now, a new chapter begins. ArtAngels 2026 brings together another remarkable collection of artists and artworks, with the same belief at its heart: that art can open doors far beyond the gallery wall.

We cannot wait to share what is coming. 🎨💛

25/09/2026

🎨 Boytchie
💀 4 SKULLS
📅 2026
🖌️ Oil, enamel and bitumen on wood
📐 91 x 66 cm
🏛️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Cape Town artist Boytchie works across painting, drawing and sculpture, with drawing forming the starting point for an experimental practice shaped by Neo-Expressionism, Romanticism, Impressionism and anime. Bold marks, saturated colour and imagery that shifts between the tragic and the comic allow him to confront contemporary hustle culture, greed, power and our increasing familiarity with violence.

In 4 SKULLS, Boytchie returns to a motif that has appeared repeatedly in his recent work, including Untitled (Skull), Untitled (Skull with Grillz) and 2 Skulls in the Dirt. Here, oil, enamel and bitumen meet on wood, continuing his instinct for combining conventional painting with tougher, less polished materials. The title leaves little room for distraction: four skulls, a recurring image within a practice that asks us to look directly at death, violence and the uneasy point where discomfort can become familiar.

22/09/2026

🎨 Teresa Kutala Firmino
🖼️ GIRLS ON ARROW ROOT
📅 2025
🖌️ Mixed media on canvas
📐 100 x 100 cm
🏛️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Teresa Kutala Firmino uses storytelling to revisit histories shaped by personal and collective trauma. Drawing from her birthplace of Pomfret, she works with imagery sourced from newspapers, magazines, historical documents and social media, rebuilding these fragments into staged scenes where past and present can meet.

Girls on Arrow Root continues this approach, using mixed media to create a space for re-enactment and possibility. Rather than presenting history as fixed, Firmino allows its fragments to be rearranged, retold and opened to new narratives.

16/09/2026

🎨 Mary Sibande
💔 SOPHIE IN GRAND ÉCART
📅 2026
🖌️ Powder-coated aluminium
📐 85.5 × 107 × 1 cm
🖼️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Mary Sibande’s practice centres on Sophie, a fictional character through whom the artist explores Black female identity in post-apartheid South Africa. Sophie carries echoes of the women in Sibande’s own family while also creating space for imagined futures beyond inherited narratives. Costume, gesture and colour are central to this visual language, allowing the figure to move between histories of labour and ideas of resistance, power and transformation.

In Sophie in Grand Écart, the title draws attention to the figure’s physical gesture: grand écart, the French term for a full split. Rendered here in powder-coated aluminium, Sophie moves from the dimensional presence associated with Sibande’s large-scale installations into a markedly flatter sculptural form. The extended pose gives the work its striking silhouette, placing gesture at the forefront of how we encounter a character who has remained central to Sibande’s practice for two decades.

15/09/2026

🎨 Atang Tshikare
🖌️ SEBATANA
📅 2019
🪵 Wood
📐 25 × 46 × 19 cm
🖼️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Atang Tshikare’s multidisciplinary practice moves between art and design, shaped by a visual language grounded in his Tswana heritage and an experimental, Afrofuturist approach. Working across bronze, ceramics, glass, stone and wood, he draws particular inspiration from zoomorphic shapes, biomorphic forms, vernacular architecture and southern African landscapes. His sculptures often bring natural and human-made forms into close conversation, with an emphasis on shape, material and tactility.

Carved in wood, SEBATANA brings that language into a compact sculptural form. Its curved silhouette and animal-like presence speak directly to Tshikare’s documented fascination with zoomorphic and biomorphic forms, while the grain and physical character of the wood remain integral to how the piece is experienced. Created in 2019 and presented as edition 4 of 5, it is a work that rewards being viewed in the round, where changes in angle bring different aspects of its form into focus.

14/09/2026

🎨 Phillemon Hlungwani
💔 MISAVA I YA YEHOVHA, NI LESWI NGA EKA YONA (THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF)
📅 2026
🖌️ Charcoal and chalk pastels on paper
📐 75 × 118 cm
🖼️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Phillemon Hlungwani’s drawings are grounded in community, place and the values carried from one generation to the next. Working predominantly in charcoal, he depicts scenes of rural life and formal and informal settlements where people are inseparable from their surroundings. Lines and arcs move through his compositions, connecting figures, landscape and the spiritual, while colour brings his protagonists forward with a vivid sense of humanity.

Misava I Ya Yehovha, Ni Leswi Nga Eka Yona (The Earth Is the Lord’s, and the Fullness Thereof) continues Hlungwani’s practice of giving his works xiTsonga titles that carry ideas beyond their literal translation. In his world, there is no firm divide between people and place, the material and the spiritual, or the animate and inanimate. Rendered in charcoal and chalk pastel, the work sits within this deeply connected way of seeing, where the earth is not simply a backdrop to human life, but part of the whole.

12/09/2026

Beyond the Canvas

The value of art has never ended at the edge of the frame.

Through ArtAngels, the generosity surrounding each work reaches into classrooms across South Africa, helping Click Learning create stronger foundations for young learners and greater possibilities for their futures.

Exceptional art can change a space. Together, it can help change what is possible for a child.

11/09/2026

🎨 Erin Chaplin
💔 Buffey
📅 2026
🖌️ Oil on canvas
📐 47.5 × 53 cm
🖼️ Everard Read Gallery Everard Read Cape Town

Erin Chaplin is drawn to the beauty of things that cannot last. Nature has long been her muse, particularly flowers and fruit, whose freshness inevitably gives way to decay. For Chaplin, still life offers a way of holding these fleeting subjects in paint, while her use of muted tones alongside unexpected, contrived colours resists making them feel too perfect or fixed.

In Buffey, Chaplin returns to oil on canvas, a medium through which her interest in nature, imperfection and transience has repeatedly taken form. Rather than assigning a story to the work, its place within her wider practice asks us to consider one of the tensions at the heart of her painting: the possibility of preserving something in an image even as the living world continues to change.

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