Wesley Pepper, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Zolile Phethane – Presents Chaotic CBD Arts

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:17:49 +0000

Chaotic CBD is the latest exhibition by Zolile Phetshane and serves as a sneak preview to his solo exhibitions, Come Get Your Gold which will open in Spring 2022 in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The exhibition deals with the mass migration to metropoles in South Africa in search of a better life and financial freedom. [...]

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Gary Frier – Artist Profile

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:13:18 +0000

A proverb is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. In 1999 I was invited by the Alliance Française to do a workshop [...]

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Ndim’lo – Poetry Feature

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:53:49 +0000

Ndim’lo Bio: My late mother told the 12-year-old version of me to excel. Her words became my North star, I completed my high school education at Christian Brothers College and currently working towards my bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Johannesburg. Throughout my career writing was my outlet. I won countless awards dedicated [...]

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Lolly Mhlongo – Interview

Wesley Pepper — Tue, 28 May 2019 14:16:27 +0000

Q Could you tell us a bit about Lolly A As salaam aluikum Africa, Lolly Mhlongo is a pan African artist and human rights activist from Pondoland in a small town called Bizana. She has been singing from the age of five performing in schools and weddings where she developed the name as a young [...]

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Artist Feature – Nkosi X

Wesley Pepper — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:56:56 +0000

Nkosi X’s FreeTape- LP (2018) It’s Nkosi X’s offering following his highly experimental project, DIvine Waters released mid-2017. The EP was created mainly in Cape Town and features artists such as Rachel, Travis Blakk from George, Andy Mkosi from Cape Town and production by Cape Town’s unknownTumi, ArtGang’s Producer/singer/rapper PJ Rocc FreeTape is set to [...]

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SA Book Week 2017

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:10:15 +0000

Wesley will be exhibiting pencil Illustrations and Graphic Novel. He’ll be exhibiting alongside Peter-James ban der Bergh and Siya Masuku For more information check out http://sabookcouncil.co.za/

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#TheOpenCityProject – Solo Exhibition

Wesley Pepper — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:22:00 +0000

Wesley Pepper presents #TheOpenCityProject – Solo Exhibition Art is a Verb! Not a Noun www.wesleypepper.com www.mapcontemporary.co.za ___ The Open City Project approaches the city’s space through the social reality of the streets as a dynamic space of experimentation and energy. Im interested in people that uses and imagines the dialect mesh, history, race, culture, language and [...]

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Help Support #TheOpenCityProject through Crowd Funding

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:25:04 +0000

The Open City Project approaches the city’s space through the social reality of the streets as a dynamic space of experimentation and energy. Pepper is interested in people that use and imagine the dialect mesh, history, race, culture, language and aesthetics. His artwork will express the voices and emotions of those who are excluded and [...]

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Book Marks

Wesley Pepper — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:09:32 +0000

A tragi-comedy about friendship, racism and decolonization (as well as reading …) on the wrong side of the rainbow They are all on the edge. Each has weaknesses. There are no innocents. These people are Vish Naidoo (Luversan Gerard), a divorced, Indian businessman/deal-maker; Stanton de Villiers (Craig Morris), a white, gay man of Afrikaner ancestry [...]

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Thina Dube – Artist Feature

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:42:43 +0000

Using his own skillfully crafted handmade paper, Thina Dube’s work explores the politics of language in South Africa, and the ways in which individual identities are dramatically shaped by what languages they can or cannot speak. In particular he is interested in English as means of control and manipulation in relation to indigenous South African [...]

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