Marna Hattingh is a Cape Town-based artist, active in the art world since 1999. She is also a well known children’s book illustrator. As a contemporary South African artist, Hattingh works forms part of the new school of expression. There may be elements of an African-ness in her work, particularly the use of colour, but she operates outside of any category. Her daily life experience of living in Cape Town is what informs her work. And her comments are subtly embedded in a deeply layered style. She works in a range of media including drawing, painting, print making and sculpture.

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Hand-crafted ceramic artist Kathryn Mitchell is set to launch her exhibition, Ebb Tide, on March 2 at Clay Art Benowa on Australia’s Gold Coast. Ebb Tide will see Mitchell collaborate with fellow Gold Coast ceramicist Megan Puls in a show that explores the connections, journeys and movements of water. And Mitchell knows a lot about water. Growing up on a small British Island, crisscrossed with river systems and surrounded by ocean, the show also draws influence from Florence and the Machine lyrics, Frida Kahlo paintings, and the ideologies of interpersonal relationships. If you want to check it out, you better make a date in your diary as the show only runs until March 10.

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The Singapore Eyes Research Institute has opened an exhibition entitled Eyes That Tell Stories. The exhibition features amazing, high definition pictures of people’s eyes; the people ranging from sports stars to news presenters. The whole project is in an effort to raise funds for the Eye Institute, which helps to prevent against eye disease and blindness through research for new treatments and prevention strategies.

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Using homely toothpicks as his sole form of paint application, JoKa’s laborious process of ‘hyper-pointillism’ results in work that is delicate and complex. Known for bright and vivid pieces with skewed imagery and sense of humor, JoKa takes a slightly darker turn for upcoming exhibit, The Noise in the Basement. Taking cues from the show’s title, his new body of work is a collection of the things hidden and buried. JoKa distorts familiar images into the surreal to create work that is ethereal and hauntingly beautiful. The Noise in the Basement opened on October 6 at WWA Gallery and will be on view through November 3.

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Roderick Smith, an artist and musician based in Newcastle, Australia, has opened an exhibition in his Georgetown studio. Since June 2012, Smith has been creating the works between his day job as a solicitor and his solo and collaborative musical efforts. Opening night was held in conjunction with Partridge Wines and one of Smith’s sound installations provided a very interesting soundtrack.

Photographs by Naomi Frost of Froxy Photography

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British artist John Stezaker’s series of photographs fuses the profiles of glamorous sitters with caves, hamlets, or waterfalls, making for images of eerie beauty.

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Les Petites Chaises, or Little Chairs, is Alexandre Moussard’s first exhibition. The 25 year-old French artist studied architecture, and it was during a course that, by simply twisting a wire, he came across the idea for the shape of his first chair design.

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Sydney and London-based artists Kirsten Fredericks and Sarah Howell explore the holiest of power couples in their first joint exhibition: Adam and Eve. The artists invite viewers to sample the fruits in their Garden of Eden, with works that explore the masculine and feminine, the playfulness of sex, kitschy animalia and a uniquely perverse, tongue-in-cheek take on all of the above. At Sydney’s Blank_space Gallery between October 9 and 15.

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Louie Joyce is an illustrator and designer based in Kings Cross, Sydney. His love for comics, both the strong graphic imagery and narrative, is something he tries to distill into single images: moments that exist within larger events, stories or lives. His new exhibition at the Monstrosity Gallery runs between September 24 and October 15.

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