04 May 2025 - 30 June 2025
The Spring 2025 Collection, Inside Africa, is a curation of contemporary fine art both inspired by South Africa and including work by artists from South Africa, offering a dialogue between perspectives - how we see a place from afar versus how it is understood by those who live within it. This collection will include new paintings by Sterling Crawford (Greenville, SC) and works by South African artists Nkosinathi Thomas Ngulube (Cape Town, South Africa) and Laurel Holmes (Cape Town, South Africa).
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THE ARTISTS
Sterling Crawford
B. 1997 | Greenville, SC, USA
A graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Finance (2019), Sterling has spent five years in accounting, while also growing her art business. In 2023, she founded Stall Three Studio as a way to curate collections of contemporary art that highlight various cultural narratives. Her artistic philosophy is driven by a belief in art’s ability to connect people across different backgrounds. This is thread into her business as well as her work as a self-taught painter, inviting audiences to appreciate not only the beauty of art but also its power to bridge worlds and perspectives.
For the Spring 2025 Collection, Sterling presents a new body of work inspired by her recent experience in the Limpopo region of South Africa, where the vast landscapes and diverse terrain were a constant source of contrast—both rugged and serene, untamed yet deeply interconnected with the people and wildlife that inhabit them.
Laurel Holmes
B. 1964 | Cape Town, South Africa
Laurel Holmes is a Cape Town-based artist exploring themes of fragility and the natural world, drawing inspiration from her coastal surroundings. After leaving the corporate world in 2012, she relocated from Johannesburg to Cape Town in 2016 and studied under renowned South African artists. Working primarily in oil painting, she also explores wax encaustic, mixed media, and printmaking, participating in internships at Warren Editions and workshops at The Artists’ Press. She earned a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town in 2021 and has since exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Miami in 2022. Her work is held in private and institutional collections, including Spier Arts Trust and the University of Cape Town, and extends into commercial ventures, with a GIF owned by the Smithsonian and the V&A Museum.
Nkosinathi Thomas Ngulube
Nkosinathi Thomas Ngulube is a self-taught artist and leading gallerist whose work is deeply rooted in raw emotion, symbolism, and unconventional materials. Beginning with foraged objects in sculpture, his practice has evolved into a layered, textural exploration of painting on hessian fabric—born from both hardship and triumph. Rejecting traditional brushes, he applies paint with his fingers and tools, creating frenetic compositions filled with markings, mirrored text, and vernacular symbols that challenge viewers to engage in deeper conversation. His work navigates themes of identity, struggle, and resilience, reflecting his own journey of perseverance. Through his bold expressionism, Nathi transforms discarded materials into powerful narratives, embodying his belief in finding beauty within chaos.
B. 1975 | Cape Town, South Africa