Mary Sibande
“Die werk getuig van die mag van die verbeelding. Hoewel die status van vroue in Suid-Afrika nog altyd sinoniem is met geweld, verdrukking en swaarkry, is dit deur veerkragtige eienskappe soos harde werk, krag, liefde, hoop en verbeelding dat vroue die geleentheid kry om hul eie narratief te skryf ondanks die noodlot of gebrek aan kanse.” – Uit die beoordelaars se commendatio
Wim Botha
Botha is known for his questioning of symbolism linked to religion, power structures and history, as well as for the use of various mediums such as maize, books and charcoal.
Andrieta Wentzel
Wentzel has executed various commissions, such as a bronze bust of Nelson Mandela for the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in Bisho, which was presented as a birthday gift to him on his 86th birthday in 2004. Others are designs for ceramic tiles and relief panels for the Magistrate’s Court in Port Elizabeth and oil paintings for Sun International interests in the city.
Jan van der Merwe
“At present I work with artifacts of our time and attempt to transform them into archaeological remnants.”
“The installation becomes an indoor monument to the universal history of ordinary people, their politics and religion and their treasuring of valuables. Rust refers to the transient nature of everything, a return to original matter.” (Hundt ed. 2005)
Willem Boshoff
Willem Boshoff creates primarily language/text-related art prepared over long periods and referring to a social context in the form of large installations, visual poetry, concrete poetry, sculpture. Uses wood, stone, objet trouve, mixed media and various graphic media.
Gert Swart
For two decades Gert Swart lived and worked in Pietermaritzburg. His most important exhibition of this period was in 1997, Contemplation: a body of work by Gert Swart, at the Tatham Art Gallery.
Jackson Hlungwani
Hlungwani was a priest-sculptor and charismatic spiritual leader of a group of African Zionist Church followers in Gazankulu.
David Brown
Die eerste Helgaard Steyn-prys vir Beeldhoukuns is in 1989 aan die Kaapstadse kunstenaar David Brown toegeken. Hy het dit ontvang vir Voyage II,
wat deur die beoordelaars aangewys is as die beste werk wat in die voorafgaande vier jaar in Suid-Afrika gelewer is.