Artist Fundraiser for Palestine

🇵🇸 Free & Feed Palestine 🇵🇸

An artist-led fundraiser raffle for aid to Palestinians

We have decided to offer these artworks in a fundraiser raffle, so that for a small donation you might get something in return. For R100, your name will be entered in a raffle to win 1 of these 10 artworks, and the winners will be announced on the 10th of October.

Each entry = 1 ticket, so purchasing more tickets increases your odds of being selected. To purchase more than one ticket, click 'add to cart' then go to cart and update the quantity there. 

Winners will be contacted and given options for the artwork they would like to receive - we will do our best to ensure everyone is happy with the piece they are given, but cannot guarantee that you will be attributed a specific artwork. 

 

About your donation

100% of each ticket will be donated, excluding the payment processing fee (4% transaction fee). We have chosen to support Gift of the Giver's Hunger Alleviation Project in Gaza and the West Bank. They have been providing critical aid in distributing baby milk to children in Gaza who are still suffering from severe malnutrition and a shortage of essential food supplies due to the ongoing blockade. 

If you would like to donate directly, you are more than welcome to donate at least R100 to Gift of the Givers' Palestine project (use Palestine as the reference), and send me a donation receipt via email (lucie@sofarstudio.co.za) so that you can be entered into the raffle. 

 

About the artists

 

Brooke Stewart

Brooke Stewart is a Cape-Town based artist who loves to switch up the medium. Acrylic, spray paint, screen printing… why choose when you can have it all! She is inspired by nature, the people surrounding her and ideas that pop out of the subconscious with no clear author. While not a full-time artist, she treats her practice as a focused passion, exploring different ways to make art part of everyday life. This has also grown into Studio Anyone, a small business creating and selling locally realised art and art merchandise. 

@brooke_in_studio

 

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga (b. Lubumbashi, DRC) was initially trained as a printmaker but soon gravitated towards painting and collage - the mediums that have come to define her practice. 

The core focus of Mulanga’s art is to challenge the representation of Black female subjects by investigating the individual’s relationship with space. Space works on multiple levels in Mulanga’s artworks; on the one hand, it represents the space itself. On the other, it is symbolic as an extension of the individual. The space embodies the human, morphing into an independent protagonist. As is the case with different facets of the human soul, these multi-spaces exist in one moment, inviting one to reflect and interact with them if and when they are ready. It is in these liminal moments that Cinthia Sifa Mulanga highlights the nuances and complexities of a Black woman's identity in today’s world.

@cinthia.mulanga

 

Kay-Leigh Fisher

Kay-Leigh Fisher is a visual artist, curator and publisher based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds an Honours in Curatorship degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2020) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand (2019). Her research and practice focuses on themes and narratives of becoming, thinking through familiar relationships with objects and how they reinforce ideals around racial and gendered identity. By examining the intersection of material culture and identity politics through archives of photography, performance and contemporary art, her work represents a departure from ideal portraiture through the lens of multiplicity. Her work aims to challenge the norms of gendered and racial identity as they have become embedded in our daily lives. Fisher was a co-recipient of the Bag Factory Artist Studios Young Womxn Studio Bursary (2022 - 2023) and works full time as a Programme Associate for the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF).

@kayleigh_d_fisher

 

Lucie de Moyencourt

 

Lucie Panis-Jones

Lucie Panis-Jones (b.1993, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a textile designer and artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her studio work focuses on using natural materials and repurposing and upcycling to create hand-woven and hand-quilted pieces, as well as using visible mending techniques to repair and celebrate the way we wear (and wear out) our clothing. Her work is informed by the materials she has at hand, always letting the available fabric or yarn guide her process. Her practice aims to highlight the beauty in the imperfection of handmade things and honour the way her hands shape the pieces she weaves, quilts, or mends. 

@luciepanisjones

Mercy Thokozane Minah

Mercy Thokozane Minah is a nonbinary, queer multidisciplinary maker who creates art in visual, literary and theatrical mediums. They have been a cultural worker for over five years, making art that explores Black, queer, and trans intimacy, with a focus on the relationship between intimacy and liberation. To Mercy, art is a crucial tool for galvanizing and enacting necessary resistance against oppression.

@iamafreedom

 

 

Nabeeha Mohamed

Nabeeha Mohamed (b.1988, Cape Town, South Africa) completed her BAFA degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2011. Mohamed’s very personal work grapples with the complexities and contradictions of identity and class privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her paintings evoke a world that is both familiar yet strange, pensive yet full of folly, interrogating and celebrating how we might find belonging in otherness. 

@nabeeha_m

Pierre Fouché

Pierre Fouché trained to be a sculptor, but he fell in love with thread early in his art career. Crochet was a gateway drug to bobbin lace for him around 2009, and today he introduces himself as a lacemaker. His work has been shown in Cape Town and beyond, forming a part of the exhibitions Women’s work (2016) and Materiality (2020) at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Crafted: Objects in flux at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (2018), as well as the touring exhibition, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, first exhibited at the Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York (2015). His work is represented in the public collections of the Iziko South African National Gallery, The Norval Foundation (Cape Town) & the Artphilein Foundation, Switzerland. Fouché lives and works in Cape Town.

@thelacemakersnotebook

Werner Ungerer

Werner Ungerer (b. 1978, Upington) is an artist with a particular interest in the hand-written word, calligraphy and the materials and techniques associated with fine writing. He is self taught and has exhibited in several group shows in Cape Town since 2008. His third solo exhibition will be at Nel on Long in July 2026.

@werner_stefan_

 

Willemien de Villiers

Willemien de Villiers is a multi-disciplinary artist who mainly uses needle and thread to create visual narratives that explore current feminist themes. Other mediums include painting (oil on canvas) and mixed media drawing. She is a published author of two novels – Kitchen Casualties (Jacana, 2003) and Virgin in the Treehouse (Jacana, 2007) as well as several short stories. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

@willemien_de_villiers