Dale Miles is a nationally recognised sculptor who has been working with clay for more than 30 years. He graduated from the National Art School with a Fine Arts Honours degree in Sculpture in 2006. Since then he has held many solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. He is known for his often large-scale optical …
Stephen Bird is an Australian contemporary artist whose practice encompasses ceramics, painting, and works on paper. His work is characterised by complex narrative imagery that interweaves satire, social commentary, and historical reference. Bird’s compositions frequently address themes of colonial history, environmental tension, and the dynamics of contemporary cultural life. Born in the United Kingdom and …
Yuliya Makliuk (Ukraine) is a ceramic artist, researcher, and author whose work addresses sustainability, material ethics, and the environmental impact of studio ceramics. She is the author of Potters Save the World, a widely referenced book on sustainable ceramics, and lectures internationally on low-carbon ceramic practice. Through art, research, and education, Yuliya explores what ceramics …
Andile Dyalvane is one of South Africa’s foremost ceramic artists. Guided by a deep spiritual connection to his Xhosa ancestors, Dyalvane’s complex, large-scale ceramic artworks are a metaphorical vessel through which he seeks to honour his cultural traditions and share his journey of healing. Born in 1978 in the small village of Ngobozana, near Qobo-Qobo …
Dr. Nkosenathi E. Koela (@indigenousfrequencycast) is an Initiated Healer and Ph.D scholar specialising in indigenous music therapies at the University of Cape Town. Koela’s Trans-disciplinary practice encompasses being an African indigenous Sound medium, Artist, Specialist and Teacher. Koela, as an Instrument maker and multi-instrumentalist, explores how healing practices through sound, creates space that manifests spiritually …
Sisonke Papu (KHNYSA) is a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, and initiated traditional healer (iGqiRha) from Mthatha, South Africa. Working through sound, film, breath, and ancestral memory, he explores Indigenous cosmologies, healing technologies, and the relationship between land, body, and spirit. His practice bridges elders and youth, ceremony and contemporary art, inviting audiences into states of presence, …
