Issue No. 07 · Spring 2026 · Woodstock, Cape Town
Art from down the road. Come look.
Now showing: Salt & Clay. Come look. Kom kyk.
The exhibitionFive sculptors from the False Bay coast, and a lot of sea air.
The sea does half the work. I just pick things up and bake them.
Five people, one stretch of coast, and a lot of clay.
Nomvula, Bongani, Chantal, Kobus and Zaid all live within spitting distance of False Bay, and it shows. There are salt-glazed pots, a bronze bait bucket, and a seal that Chantal swears is not her ex.
Come have a look. Ask who made what and why. We’ll put the kettle on.
| Nomvula Sithole | Kalk Bay |
| Bongani Mthethwa | Muizenberg |
| Chantal Februarie | Strand |
| Kobus Smit | Simon’s Town |
| Zaid Abrahams | Gordon’s Bay |
KLIPKOPIssue 07 · Spring 2026p. 04
Everything on the walls and floor this spring, in roughly the order you’ll bump into it.
KLIPKOPContentsp. 03
Ask Mo for the long versions. She has time.
Feature 01 of 04
Thandi makes giant ceramic heads in her garage in Mitchells Plain. Her neighbours have stopped asking.
She fires them in a kiln she built from a pizza-oven kit and a YouTube video. Every head is somebody from her street, and nobody gets to see theirs until it’s done. Three are here now. The biggest one needed four guys and a bakkie to get through the door.
Feature 03 of 04 · Oil on linen · Salt River
Amina paints her aunties’ kitchens in Salt River, one tablecloth at a time. She does not take requests.
Big oils, thick paint, lots of blue-and-white china. She paints from memory and, she says, from smell. Ask her about the one with the burnt koeksisters. She’ll tell you it’s a self-portrait.
Feature 04 of 04 · Gouache · Khayelitsha
Lwazi paints taxi ranks in gouache on the backs of old till slips. His studio is the front seat of a Quantum.
He collects slips from the spaza on his corner, paints the 6am rush on his way to work, and sells them for about the price of a takeaway. Small, quick and annoyingly good.
KLIPKOPFeaturesp. 10–21
Touch with your eyes. Ask about everything else. Prices are on the label because we think that’s only fair. If something’s sold, there’s usually a cousin of it in the back.
01Untitled (Kalk Bay)Nomvula Sithole, 2026, glazed stoneware, 42 × 30 cmR12 500
02Auntie Faiza’s TableclothAmina Davids, 2025, oil on linen, 120 × 90 cm. Sold.
03Head No. 9 (Big Sis)Thandi Mokoena, 2026, earthenware and slip, 78 × 54 × 50 cmR34 000
04Seagull, ReconstructedPiet Jacobs, 2025, welded boat parts and bronze, 66 × 40 cm. Sold.
05Rank, 6:14amLwazi Ndlovu, 2026, gouache on till slip, 8 × 21 cmR2 400
06Figs on a WednesdayAmina Davids, 2026, oil on board, 60 × 60 cmR9 800
07Salt LickChantal Februarie, 2026, bronze, 24 × 18 × 18 cmR21 000
08Low Tide at Muizenberg (Big Messy One)Bongani Mthethwa, 2025, oil and beach sand on canvas, 180 × 140 cm. Sold.
KLIPKOPThe Collectionp. 22–30
A small manifesto · p. 31
— Mo, who owns the place (and the kettle)
KLIPKOPManifestop. 31
Free entry. Coffee costs R25.
Train to Woodstock station, then a six-minute walk. Parking on Albert Road if you’re lucky, or round the back by the tyre place if you’re not. Wheelchair-friendly ground floor; the back room has one step and Mo will help.
KLIPKOPVisitp. 34