A MESSAGE FROM THE BFA CLASS OF 2025

This exhibition marks the culmination of our shared year of work, reflection, and creation. As a class, we have journeyed together not only through the technical processes of art making, but through the personal engagement that art asks of us. It’s been a chaotic process since
first year for all of us, learning, experimenting, stumbling, rebuilding, and discovering the many ways art can hold memory, shape perception, and preserving the archive. Now we become one.

The works gathered here speak across varied mediums, voices, and sensibilities. Some of us turned to the intimacy of archives: family albums, oral histories, objects carried forward, while others explored perception through abstraction, material experimentation, or embodied experience. Together, our practices form a dialogue about what it means to document, to remember, and to translate lived experience into tangible form. Each piece stands individually, yet collectively they form a textured constellation of our concerns, our questions, and our stories.


This year has been fast. The pace of making, thinking, critiquing, and becoming can be overwhelming, but tonight reminds us to pause and to take in what we have built, what we have become. We honour the long studio days, the late-night group messages, the frustrations that became breakthroughs, and the many cups of tea or coffee shared along the way. We honour the generosity we have shown one another in support, critique, and celebration.

We present this exhibition with excitement and with gratitude: to our lecturers and mentors who guided us, to the staff who supported the logistics that make exhibitions possible, to our families and friends who witnessed our process, and to each other, for the companionship that transformed work into something meaningful.


Thank you for being here to witness this moment with us. We are proud of what stands before you, and we carry forward everything we have learned, together.


The class of 2025

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Graduate Class of 2025

Monique Daniel

Zaza Germond

Khakhalethu Gxiya

Jessica Lobb

Atlegang Mkhize

Sive Ntombana

Cee-Jay Porthen

Sami Qoko

Oni Speelman

Sarah Volker 

Exhibitions

Family Recipe

by Monique Daniel

We Are Watching

by Zaza Germond

pastel dreams

by Khakhalethu Gxiya

Memories Preserved in Paint  

by Jessica Lobb

I Was, I Am

by Atlegang Mkhize

Umzi kaMadosini: A Witness 

by Sive Ntombana

The Collective House

by Cee-Jay Porthen

Sikhule sifotwa, sifota, sizifota

by Sami Qoko

Between Us

by Oni Speelman

Thresholds

by Sarah Volker 

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