EveNX Maharishakti's Creative Stock Exchange Art Catalogue Feb 2018

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Feb 2018 Afrikan Art Portfolio
EveNX | Maharishakti’s Creative Stock Exchange
Presented by Creation iLab on behalf of Merlegrace O’Brien and AnEveNWorld Foundation NPO
For further information, contact merle.obrien@gmail.com | @merleobrien | @creationilab | @maharishakti

DEAREST PATRON
Compliments of the season and blessings for 2018!
I am honoured to present the Q1 / 2018 Afrikan Art catalogue of [EveNX] | Maharishakti’s Creative Stock
Exchange – an initiative of my legacy NPO | #AnEvenWorldFoundation – to crowdfund ways for an
innovative healthcare solution to be found for me to kick systemic sclerosis.
Since being diagnosed in November 2015 [whilst busy with my doctoral research into the creative
economy 2030 ] – my creativity abilities are tested by the daily realities of coping with one of the 10
rarest auto-immune diseases – especially as a self-reliant creative African woman futurist and Odissi
danseuse. Intent on not taking up space on Earth - and knowing I am so much more than my body
- I continue to pursue my life’s vision of - inspiring creativity that leads to a more beautiful, peaceful
and sustainable world. I call this vision EveNX [AnEveNWorld], for short – and I mutually align with
anyone who shares a similar vision.
In 2016, creative artists responded by donating a collection of some R500k of fine Afrikan artworks to
cover my daily living and medical expenses whilst awaiting my medical aid’s authorisation for the
first bone marrow transplant of this kind in Africa [as my only hope of a future looking brighter than
my past]. I remain deeply humbled by the show of the power of the creative spirit and deeply thank
these artists for supporting me to receive the finest medical care. I thank all those who supported
our curators in 2017 and 2016 respectively | Saba Zahara and the late Kathy Coates who inspired
creativity indeed.
While house-bound due to my low immune system, I continue working on my Phd via its testbed
Creation-iLab, curate the 2018 African Trendstar Journal, as an African creative intelligence &
foresight journal for innovators, adjudicate the Annual International A Design Awards – while
managing EveNX artwork sales, writing thoughtleadership articles for select media – and delivering
select conference papers & keynotes.

2016/2017 REPORT
Funding from the 2016/17 years’ art sales enabled and supported me in the following ways:
1. A full-time care-giver (Avril Atkins) , nurse-aid (Ms Chi-Chi Dizwane) and an assistant were employed to attend to me
during 2016 when partially disabled, I unable to work or fully take care for myself.
2.Private care at UCT Academic Hospital under Prof. Stanley Ress and Prof Asgar Khalla – with daily physiotherapy,
psycho-therapy and speech therapy.
3.Counselling to cope with the sudden death of Kathy Coates, who curated our 1st Heartscape Benefit Art Auction as
well as mourning with Marlene le Roux’s loss of her son, as well as uncle Kathy, uncle Ramesh Vassen and my Father’s
late uncle Dennis O’Brien.
4.With administrative correspondence costs and reports prepared for my medical insurance, to justify the unique merits
of my ‘progressively fatal’ exceptional case – ongoing since 2016.
5.Co-founding SAINT | The Scleroderma Africa Innovation Network which provides a support network to other sufferers
of this auto-immune disease across Africa | see www.facebook.com/sclerodermafrica
6. Set up EVENX : as an E-Commerce trading platform for online sale of the Afrikan Art donated to me with the help of
creative design innovation interns such as Stefan Maritz, Ayesha Daniels, Danielle Geddes and Saba Zahara (Jill
Honeybush Pillay), who is also acknowledged for her curatorship of this 2018 collection.
7.Hospitalisation at Melomed Tokai under the specialised care of Physician Haematologist, Dr Shadrack Nahrwar and the
fine medical team of doctors and nurses who attend to me as per guidance by Mr Ebrahim Bhorat, founder of this
pioneering hospital group (for whom I curated his brand design 20 years ago). How remarkable!
8.Volunteered time with the Art of Living Foundation and Projekt Ubuntu to teach basic meditation & martial arts to
around 40 youth daily in Masiphemele – now, unable to dance, I find myself drawing forth skills from my youth. It is an
enormous privilege to teach township kids how to fight like champions and not hooligans.
9. I recommitted my life to Jesus Christ and am playing an active role in our Church, ARC Ministeries, under Pastors
Benjamin and Hayley Arde, Diaane van Stratton – see www.arc.tv

2018 GOALS & WAY FORWARD
Funding from this year’s art sales will enable me to :
• Obtain a Bone Marrow Transplant at Melomed Tokai R500k
• Travel to New Delhi with a medicarer and assistant to receive a special award R50K
• To grow the EveNX portfolio from art to other segments of the creative economy R100k
• To co-fund SAINT | to continue assisting others in Africa with this disease R250k
• Do pro bono work for NGOs via CreationiLab
• Write up my PhD into a book entitled ‘An Even World’
• Obtain special supplements, holistic medicine, chiropractic etc. costs which falls outside of my medical aid
comprehensive cover.
My 2018 began with a mixture of sadness and excitement. Sadly, I lost my dearest uncle Babs in January and
captured in my eulogy the unique role he played in shaping my approach to life and death.
On a more upbeat note, I was informed by Dr Harbeen Arora, the President of the WEF [the Women’s Economic
Forum] that it has bestowed upon me its highest honour among ‘Women of the Decade’ in Ideation &
Innovation.
These significant moments, in recognition of my life’s work, inspires me to keep on keeping on … trusting that
God has a unique plan for my life and the more I keep my focus on Him | He, as the ultimate futurist, creative,
innovator and designer will unfold my life in unique ways so as to improve not only my health but all areas of
my life, especially with my family, church, work clients, students, friends, medical team and extended community
support .
Sincerely,
Ms Merlegrace O’Brien

EVENX| A SOCIALLY INNOVATIVE ART SALES MODEL
100% of the proceeds of artwork sales funds
Merlegrace’s medical costs toward a bone marrow
transplant in 2018.
Surplus funds thereafter will be held in an investment
trust account on behalf of the
#AnEvenWorldFoundation NPO to provide for
Merlegrace’s post-transplant future sustainable financial
security and assistance to others as per its constitution
drawn up by its trustees.
The artworks are sold in the name of EveNX |
Maharishakti’s Creative Stock Exchange, a fintech
innovation platform designed for the creative economy
which formed one of the prototypes Merlegrace
designed for her doctoral thesis.
The mission for EveNX is to help meet the unmet needs
of creative entrepreneurs whose IP [royalties, funding,
policy etc.] needs were unmet by legacy / mainstream
financial structuring of the industrial age as reflected in
the resilient consistent growth of the creative sector
despite 2008 financial crisis.
Maharishakti is Merlegrace’s title as per the tradition of
an Odissi danseuse. Mahari means ‘Divine woman’ and
Shakti refers to ‘creative power’.
MOB Medical Expenses & Transplant
Paid from Proceeds of EveNX Artwork
sales &
50% Owned by An Even
World NPO – Merle’s legacy
NPO to take forward her
vision & help others
50% Owned by
Merle O’Brien for Post
Transplant Future Financial
Security
EveNX | Maraishakti’s
Creative Stock Exchange |
Artwork sales & IP tracking

HOW THE ONLINE SALES PROCESS WORKS
1. Peruse catalogue of artwork and identify your choice pieces to present an offer via email
2. Email bids titled ‘per artwork name’ and lot number to merle.obrien@gmail.com
• please include your contact details & country for timing contact calls| exchange rate verification with ZAR SA Rands – as well as
quote as per courier scale of charges to your address | region.
3. Once your bid is accepted as the highest, Merlegrace will make personal telephone contact to confirm the assignment, express
appreciation and verify sale by email invoice for payment within 7 days.
4. Bank Details for Local and International Payments
• Account Name | Merle O’Brien Financial
• Account Number |9015683904
• Account Type | Savings
• Bank | Peoples Bank Ltd inc NBS | Nedbank |South Africa ]
• Bank Code | 720026
• Branch Number | Nedbank Corporate Saver
• Branch code | 198765
• Swift Code Number | NEDSZAJJ
5. The artwork is dispatched from Cape Town within 24hours of receipt of payment confirmation.
6. A highly specialised ‘artwork & design’ courier service will contact you to effect transfer of artwork via logistics – these costs are for your
own account – at reasonable rates. Your courier Waybill number will be confirmed once the artwork & certificates are dispatched from
Cape Town.
7. A copy of the Blockchain Certificate of Authenticity & Blockchain to confirm value & transfer of ownership.
8. On confirmation of delivery by courier, Merlegrace will email to thank you and the donating artist, thereby connecting buyer and artist
directly.

EVENX | 2018 AFRIKAN ART PORTFOLIO CATEGORIES
African Masters |
includes Delise Reich, James Chauke, Willie Bester, Lionel Davies, Jackson Hlongwane,
Contemporary Artists |
include Kilmany-jo Liversage, Bongi Bengu, Elisa Vossgater, Lisa Grobler, Razia Myers, Vanessa
Berlein, Jedaja ikoli, Gary Frier and Sally Berg
Mix Media |
includes Zan Lous, Norman O’Flynn and Stephan Alveraz
Activist Art |
includes Brandon Reynolds and World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 [WSSD 2002]
Quilts depicting Afica’s challenges to Sustainable Development
Emerging Artists |
includes Frans Smit, Andrew Weir and Avril Atkins
EveNX | Afrikan Art
Portfolio
Categories | 2018
1. African Masters
2. Contemporary Art
3. Mix Media
4. Activist Art
5. Emerging Artists

Lot 1
Blockchain Certificate No. EveNX 101
Apologies to Life | African Clay Sculpture
by Delise Reich
Clay sculpture | Medium
35 cm height | Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
R10,000 – R20,000 | Pricing Bids
Delise Reich taught Merle mold-making in 2009 at the UCT
Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2009 | She is an award-winning
sculpture artist.
About the ArtWork
This sculpture Apologies to life is a profound name for an
artwork in this collection for it captures the essence of
Merlegrace’s mission to live with apology to no-one but God-
whom she promises to adore and not bore
For further info
www.linkedin.com/in/delise-reich-1a491a57/

Lot 2
Blockchain Certificate No. EveNX 102/28
Dingani | Wood Sculpture
by Phula Richard Chauke
Wood sculpture | Medium
23.3 cm height | Dimensions
2010 | Provenance
About the Artist | Bio
Born 1979 Gandlanani Khani village, Giyani where he lives and
works. Major exhibitions | BMW Tributaries; Spier Contemporary
2007/08; Standard Bank Exhibition; Limpopo Group Exhibition,
Polokwane; Absa L’Atelier, Sasol New Signatures.
About the ArtWork
My works are based on observations of life around me and my
feelings about this life. So I notice the pride of the soccer players
but I also notice people like President Zuma, Nelson Mandela,
Mbeki and people of religion such as Bishop Tutu. In the depictions
of the Tsonga tribe who now stay in Limpopo, I show the presence
of symbols that live on through time.
For further info
Richard Chauke | Artthrob

Lot 3
Pick up your breathe and remember me by Ernestine
White
Collage on cotton rag paper| Medium
26 x 20 inches| Dimensions
tbc| Provenance
R10,000 - 15,000 | Pricing Bids
About the Artist
Ernestine White is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Iziko South African National Gallery
As an acclaimed Afrikan artist, her work features in a
number of major local and international collections. A
career highlight has been the inclusion of her work into
the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of
Modern Art.
About the ArtWork
Pick up your breathe and remember me portrays the
beauty of African Aesthetics in Women and nature
For further info
http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/ernestine-white

Lot 4
The mouth speaks what the eyes refuse
by Ernestine White
Collage on cotton rag paper| Medium
26 x 20 inches| Dimensions
tbc| Provenance
R10,000 - 15,000 | Pricing Bids
About the Artist
Ernestine White is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Iziko South African National Gallery
As an acclaimed Afrikan artist, her work features in a
number of major local and international collections. A
career highlight has been the inclusion of her work into
the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of
Modern Art
About the ArtWork
The mouth speaks what the eyes refuse – says it all
For further info
http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/ernestine-white

Lot 5
Blockchain Certificate No. EveNX
104/28
African Bull
by Kuda Vavi
Mosaic paper| Medium
tbc| Dimensions
tbc| Provenance
R10,000 - 18,000 | Pricing Bids
About the Artist
Kuda Vavi is a Zimbabwean artist and
winner of the 2015 Thami Mnyele Fine
Arts Award
About the ArtWork
Monica the Bull | Kuda’s work is
distinguishable in a sense, he
possesses the ability to capture an
accurate likeness of a subject in oils or
pencil like this mosaic paper textured
painting.
For further info
http://kuda-artist.com/about/

Lot 6
Nude Study on Paper
by Lionel Davis
Drawing on Paper| Medium
34 x 44 cm height | Dimensions
2010 | Provenance
About the Artist
A former political prisoner and long-time cultural
activist, Lionel Davis' name features prominently in
the history of the Vakalisa Art Associates, Thupelo
Workshop, Greatmore Artists Studio and
Community Arts Project, of which Merle was also
member of the latter during her youth
About the ArtWork
This nude study of women was a gift to Merlegrace
O’Brien by uncle Lionel via SabaZahara.
For further info
http://asai.co.za/artist/lionel-davis/

Lot 7
Manti Praise
by Garth Erasmus
Ink on Paper| Medium
25cm X 36cm | Dimensions
2010 | Provenance
About the Artist
Garth Erasmus was born in 1956, Uitenhage, Eastern
Cape, South Africa and lives in Brackenfell, 50km
from Cape Town.
As a visual artist and musician best known for his
innovative use of materials, Garth been featured in
almost every major book survey of South African art
since the late 1980s, and is well represented in the
National Museum of African Art and Smithsonian
Institute.
About the ArtWork
This artwork Mantis Praise – was Garth Erasmus was
a gift to assist Merlegrace
For further info
http://asai.co.za/artist/garth-erasmus/

Lot 8
Beyers Kloof
by Sophie Peters
Oil on canvas| Medium
65 x 65 cm| Dimensions
2010 | Provenance
About the Artist
Sophie Peters
i b. Johannesburg, 1968. Lives in Cape Town
Printmaker, painter and musician, Sophie Peters
employs narrative devices to detail her personal
history and experience.
About the ArtWork
This artwork Beyers Kloof – was Sophie Peters gift to
help Merlegrace
For further info
www.sophiapeters.com
www.southafricanartists.com/artists/sophie-peters-
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Lot 9
Farm Worker
by Willie Bester
Watercolour| Medium
42 x 51cm| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Willie Bester (born 1956) is a South African
activist artist known for his installations made
of found objects. Although Sotheby's once
sold one of his sculptures for almost R 200
000 he is hardly known beyond the Cape or
the arts fraternity
About the ArtWork
This artwork Farm Worker – was Willie
Bester’s gift to help Merlegrace – who
specialized in doing labour relations for this
social sector during her varsity years.
For further info
https://www.williebester.co.za/entercvbester.h
tm

Lot 10
A Quiet Moment
by Ronnie Hlathi
Charcoal on Paper | Framed | Medium
tbc | Dimensions
2004 | Provenance
About the Artist
Ronnie Hlathi | South Africa
won the Deutshce Bank Little Artists Chairman’’s Award | 2006
which became part of Merlegrace’s art collection
About the ArtWork
A quiet moment is one of Merlegrace’s dearest artwork in the
collection … within this woman, Ronnie captures the essence of
African beauty. In 2004 she bid for the panting that later won the
Deutshe Bank Little Artists Chairman’s Award.
For further info
https://www.facebook.com/ronniemandla.hlathi

Lot 11
Fishbowl
by Jackson Hlungwane | 1923 – 2010
South AFrica
Carved wooden bowl with fish fins| Medium
14.5 cm by 13.5 cm | Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Jackson Hlungwane | South AFrica
Jackson Hlungwani is amongst SA’s best known
contemporary artists and sculptors who made this
medium his own. He is also one of the Helgaard
Steyn Award Winners – the current contemporary
exhibition in the La Motte Museum.
About the ArtWork
This artwork Fishbowel – was Kathy Coates gift to
help Merlegrace – and all proceeds from this sale
will go toward the Kathy Coates Family.
For further info
https://www.la-motte.com/blogs/news/jackson-
hlungwani-1923-2010-an-artistic-and-spiritual-life-
through-woodwork

Lot 12
Khayelitsha Train Station
by Ricky Dyaloyi
Linocut| Medium
87cm x 68 cm| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Ricky Dyaloyi was born in Gugulethu, Cape Town on 8
August 1974. From a young age he felt inspired to draw
and sketch the vibrant community and life that
surrounded him in the township. His creativity and love
for the arts was encouraged and nurtured by his parents
during his adolescent years and by 1988, at age fourteen,
he was attending part time art classes at CAP
(Community Arts Project) where Merlegrace trained in
drama.
About the ArtWork
Dyaloyi’s style of painting reflects ordinary citizens going
about their daily lives, rendered in heightened colours to
reveal the effervescent quality of the community and
people with which he lives.
For further info
https://www.everard-read-
capetown.co.za/artist/RICKY_DYALOYI/biography/

Lot 13
Untitled
by Kilmary-Jo Liversage | South Africa
Painted wooden creative Block| Medium
18.5cm x 18.5 cm| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Kilmany-Jo Liversage (b. 1973) creates
portraits that sit at the blurry boundary
between fine art and graffiti. Adopting the
graffiti or urban art language allows her to
update, renew and challenge the conventions
of painting. Her works form part of the
Nando’s Art Initiative and is found around the
world.
About the ArtWork
This untitled artwork was Kilmany-Jo’s gift to
help Merlegrace
For further info
http://www.kilmanyjo.com/

Lot 14
Untitled
by Kilmary-Jo Liversage
Painted wooden creative Block| Medium
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Kilmany-Jo Liversage (b. 1973 creates
portraits that sit at the blurry boundary
between fine art and graffiti. Adopting the
graffiti or urban art language allows her to
update, renew and challenge the conventions
of painting – her works form part of the
Nando’s Art Initiative.
About the ArtWork
This untitled artwork – was Kilmany-Jo’s gift
to help Merlegrace
For further info
http://www.kilmanyjo.com/

Lot 15
Untitled
by Bongi Bengu
Mixed Media on Paper | Medium
tbc| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Born in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, Bengu
received her BA (Fine Arts)(cum laude) from
Mount Vernon College, Washington DC, USA
in 1993 and in 1997, her Masters of Fine Arts
from the University of Cape Town. Her works
form part of select art collections around the
world..
About the ArtWork
This untitled artwork – was Bongi Bengu’s gift
to help Merlegrace
For further info
http://www.art.co.za/bongibengu/

Lot 16
A Summer Storm
by Elisa Vossgater
Oil on Paper | Medium
52cm x 47cm| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Elize Vossgatter is a Cape Town based artist
with a primary concern for oil paint and mixed
media. Her process is explorative and
experimental; pushing the limits of the
material by engaging the oil paint with new
solvents and permitting a deterioration of the
paint to tell the stories in the subjects.
About the ArtWork
A Summer Storm – is the artwork that Elize
Vossgatter gifted to help Merlegrace
For further info
http://elizevossgatter.co.za

Lot 17
Bread and Butter [allegory IV]
by Miranda Vinjwa
Mosaic with rusted nails on polystyrene |
Medium
20cm radius| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Miranda Vinjwa
is a full time mosaic and micro mosaic artist
for jewelers (e.g. pendant) and cement
sculptors and has exhibited at
About the ArtWork
A Summer Storm – is the artwork that
Miranda Vinjawa gifted to help Merlegrace
For further info
http://www.greatmoreart.org/greatmore_studi
o/Studio_12_Miranda.html

Lot 18
Hello. How am I?
by Liza Grobler
Monotype on canvas | Medium
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Liza Grobler | South Africa
(b. 1974 – Lisa explores the dialogue between
inner and outer landscape. Her installations
create dialogues with the spaces in which
they are displayed and explore the
connections between people, artworks and
the world around us.
About the ArtWork
A Summer Storm is the artwork that Lisa
Grobler gifted to help Merlegrace
For further info
https://www.everard-read-
capetown.co.za/artist/LIZA_GROBLER/biograp
hy

Lot 19
Sublime
by Razia Myers
Oil on canvas | Medium
1.2 m x 800 cm| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Razia Myers held her first Solo exhibition at
the V&A Waterfront in 2015, She has since
been invited to participate in 6 exhibitions.
She is represented by the Lisa King Gallery in
Greenpoint.
About the ArtWork
Sublime – is the artwork that Razia Myers
gifted to help Merlegrace
For further info
http://raziamyersart.co.za/

Lot 20
What Beauty Lies Beneath
by Razia Myers
Oil on canvas | Medium
1.2 m x 1 m| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
About the Artist
Razia Myers held her first Solo exhibition at
the V&A Waterfront in 2015, She has since
been invited to participate in 6 exhibitions.
She is represented by the Lisa King Gallery in
Greenpoint.
About the ArtWork
What beauty lies beneath is one of the
artworks Razia Myers donated to the
collection.
For further info
http://raziamyersart.co.za/

Lot 21
& Then
by Vanessa Berlein
Indian ink of Waterclour Paper | Medium
42.5 cm| Dimensions
2016 | Provenance
R8,000 – R10,000| Pricing Bids
About the Artist
According to Saatchi’s Art Website, Vanessa
Berlein is listed as a visual artist working
predominantly in oil paint, but am experimental
with other mediums also.
About the ArtWork
Vanessa’s work is concerned with searching for
the “Icon” within individuals through
portraiture. The term Icon traditionally refers to
the pictorial representation of usually a
religious deity or idol. In modern terms the
term is used in computer terminology and also
in reference to a person who has gained
notoriety
For further info
http://vanessaberlein.blogspot.co.za/
https://www.saatchiart.com/VAB1968

Lot 22
Sensational
by Jedaja Ikoli | Congo
Acrylic Paint on camvas| Medium
tbc| Dimensions
2010 | Provenance
About the Artist
Jedaja Ikoli | Congo
has been doing portrait work at the V&A
Waterfront since 2010. He was first attracted to
the arts as a teenager and showed great talent.
He furthered his professional career and now
spends most of his afternoons between his
studio in Long Street and the V&A Waterfront
doing beautiful sketches of members of the
public, not to mention the odd animal he is
asked to draw. He was even once asked to
sketch up a tourist’s pet gorilla
About the ArtWork
Jedaja gifted this artwork to help Merlegrace.
For further info
http://www.waterfront.co.za/activities/Buskers/j
adeja-ikoli

Lot 23
Corn-row-blue
by Gary Frier | South Africa
Acrylic Paint on camvas| Medium
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Gary Frier is a skilled artist from Cape Town.
He has participated in a number of South
African and European residencies and
exchanges. Alongside working as an artist he
also runs art classes and workshops with
children in the Cape. ….
About the ArtWork
Gary gifted this artwork to help Merlegrace.
For further info
www.saatchiart.com/garyfrier

Lot 24
Dreamscape
by Sally Berg| South Africa
Ink on Fabriano paper | Medium
22.5cm x 22.5cm| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Sally Berg had her first exhibition in March
2012 at The Museum Gallery, Salt River, and is a
former London-based fashion editor for Elle
and Marie Claire magazines, and as a freelance
art director.“ Painting is a way for me to explore
what it is to be a human being right now, and
to try and understand the world we live in."
About the ArtWork
Sally gifted this artwork to help Merlegrace.
For further info
http://sallybergpainter.blogspot.co.za/p/about-
me.html

Mixed Media |
illustrations | Photos

Lot 25
Untitled 1 & 2
by Stefan Maritz| South Africa
Illustrations on paper | Medium
tbc| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
R3,000 – R6,000 for both| Pricing Bids
About the Artist
Stefan Maritz is a talented artist who
specializes in fine art, illustrations and digital
art. He has an Hons degree in brand innovation
from Vega and B.Comm Innovation
Management degree – who worked as an
intern with Merlegrace at Creation iLab
About the ArtWork
Stefan Maritz is a talented imagineer &
illustrator who enjoys juxtaposing human
nature & the future.

Lot 26
Woman with graining machine near Lusikisiki | Transkei
by Zan Louw | South Africa
Illustrations on Mulberry Paper | Medium
2015 | Provenance
About the Artist
Born Cape Town, 1964. Training 1986: BA (Fine Arts), University of
Cape Town. Exhibitions 1986–2004: including About Time: Images of
South Africa (Towards a Peoples Culture Festival), Hiddingh Hall
Campus, UCT (1986, banned by authorities before it opened)
and Renaissance Printmakers Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
(2004)
About the ArtWork
While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid
1980s, Louw’s personal relationships took her into Langa, one of Cape
Town’s oldest townships. There she witnessed the heavy-handedness
of the apartheid government’s security forces, experiences that she
drew on for a series of woodcuts and monoprints
For further info
https://www.stephanwelzandco.co.za/artist-author/zan-louw/
http://www.revisions.co.za/biographies/zan-louw/#.WndXUa6WbFg

Lot 27
Hot Hot Chilli Pepper|
by Zan Louw | South Africa
Woodcut | Medium
30.75 cm x 32 cm| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Born Cape Town, 1964. Training 1986: BA (Fine Arts), University of
Cape Town. Exhibitions 1986–2004: including About Time: Images of
South Africa (Towards a Peoples Culture Festival), Hiddingh Hall
Campus, UCT (1986, banned by authorities before it opened)
and Renaissance Printmakers Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
(2004)
About the ArtWork
While a Fine Arts student during the State of Emergency in the mid
1980s, Louw’s personal relationships took her into Langa, one of Cape
Town’s oldest townships. There she witnessed the heavy-handedness
of the apartheid government’s security forces, experiences that she
drew on for a series of woodcuts and monoprints
For further info
https://www.stephanwelzandco.co.za/artist-author/zan-louw/
http://www.revisions.co.za/biographies/zan-louw/#.WndXUa6WbFg

Lot 28
Untitled from Cityscape | Series 1
by Norman O’Flynn | South Africa
Glass paint| Medium
22 cm x 22 cm| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Norman O’Flynn works in Cape Town as a painter,
sculptor and has a deep understanding of the pop art
tradition and explores the meaning of this genre in
today’s context. He expresses it in a visual language that
looks at the explosion of knowledge, the viral spread of
imagery and ideas, the speed of change and the culture
of celebrity and self-adulation.
About the ArtWork
Ever present is the uncertain threat of violence,
normalised and made palatable as it is fed to our many
screens – paradoxically keeping us both connected and
disengaged.
For further info
http://www.worldart.co.za/artists/norman-oflynn/

Lot 29
Glass paint| Medium
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
today’s context. He expresses it in a visual language
that looks at the explosion of knowledge, the viral
spread of imagery and ideas, the speed of change and
the culture of celebrity and self-adulation.
.
About the ArtWork
disengaged
For further info

Lot 30
Glass paint| Medium
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
today’s context. He expresses it in a visual language
that looks at the explosion of knowledge, the viral
spread of imagery and ideas, the speed of change and
the culture of celebrity and self-adulation.
.
About the ArtWork
disengaged
For further info

Lot 31
Glass paint| Medium
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Norman O’Flynn works in Cape Town as a painter, sculptor
and has a deep understanding of the pop art tradition and
explores the meaning of this genre in today’s context. He
expresses it in a visual language that looks at the
explosion of knowledge, the viral spread of imagery and
ideas, the speed of change and the culture of celebrity
and self-adulation.
About the ArtWork
disengaged
For further info

Lot 32
Drakensburg Mountains
By Stephen Alveraz | Europe
Signed photographic print | Medium
tbc| Dimensions
tbc | Provenance
About the Artist
Stephen Alvarez is an award winning National
Geographic photographer, film maker and explorer
who produces global stories about exploration,
adventure, culture and archeology. He has published
over a dozen feature stories in National Geographic
Magazine. His images have won awards in Pictures of
the Year International and Communication Arts, and
have been exhibited at Visa Pour L'Image in
Perpignan, France. Recent appearances include NPR,
PBS, and CBS Saturday Morning.
About the ArtWork
This artwork was a gift to Merlegrace from
Lyndsay Rocke | UK
For further info
https://alvarezphotography.com/

Lot 33
Refugees | 1/10 Edition
by Brandan Reynolds | South Africa
Digital Print in Archival Paper| Medium
41.75 cm x 22 cm| Dimensions
Pub. 08th April 2016 Business Day | Provenance
About the Artist
Brandan Reynolds’ cartoons are published daily in
South Africa's Business Day & every Sunday in Sunday
Times Business Times and Rapport. He and Merlegrace
went to pre-school together at Marion Institute Creche
in Silvertown and have treasured memories of them
being crowned the King & Spring Queen of their
school in 1974
About the ArtWork
This cartoon became the most viewed cartoon ever on
Cartoon Movement , an international cartooning
platform and surpassed all previous cartoons in terms
of views received and engagements on Facebook and
Twitter
For further info
https://brandanreynolds.com/

Lot 34
Zuma’s Scream | 1/10 Edition
41.75 cm x 51.7 cm| Dimensions
Pub. 08th Feb 2016 Business Day | Provenance
About the Artist
South Africa's Business Day & every Sunday in
Sunday Times Business Times and Rapport. He
and Merlegrace went to pre-school together at
Marion Institute Creche in Silvertown and have
treasured memories of them being crowned the
King & Spring Queen of their school in 1974
About the ArtWork
This cartoon became the most viewed on
Facebook and Twitter in SA in 2016
For further info
https://brandanreynolds.com

Lot 35
Apple Privacy | 1/10 Edition
Pub. 09th Feb 2016 Business Day | Provenance
About the Artist
Times Business Times and Rapport. He and Merlegrace
went to pre-school together at Marion Institute Creche
in Silvertown and have treasured memories of them
being crowned the King & Spring Queen of their
school in 1974
About the ArtWork
This artwork questions consumer privacy rights in a
digital world – it’s a can of worms
For further info

Lot 36
Rhodes Retrieved | 1/1 Edition
52.5 x 43cm cm | Dimensions
Unpublished | Provenance
About the Artist
Times Business Times and Rapport. He and
Merlegrace went to pre-school together at Marion
Institute Creche in Silvertown and have treasured
memories of them being crowned the King & Spring
Queen of their school in 1974
About the ArtWork
This artwork was done during the times when the
ghostly presence of colonialist statues of apartheid
were questioned by youth
For further info

Lot 37
Sustainable Social Development in Africa |
1/4 Quilts
by South African Quilters Guild | South Africa
Applique & Embroidery
on black cotton Fabric | Medium
5m x 1m | Dimensions
2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable
Development Official Country Exhibition | Provenance
About the Artist | The South African Quilters
The South African Quilters’ Guild was founded in and is
the co-ordinating body of quilting in South Africa as a
non-profit association with 11 Regional Guilds
represented.
About the ArtWork
This set of 4 quilts were commissioned by Merlegrace in
2001 in her capacity as COO for JOWSCO – the
Johannesburg Word Summit Company. It hung at Ubuntu
Village and the Pretoria Museum as the official mural of
Africa’s challenges to sustainable development during the
WSSD 2002.
For further info
http://www.quiltsouthafrica.co.za/

Lot 38
Sustainable Heritage Ecosystems in Africa |
2/4 Quilts by The South African Quilters Guild
Development Official Country Exhibition at Ubuntu
Village | Provenance
The South African Quilters’ Guild was founded in and
is the co-ordinating body of quilting in South Africa
a non-profit association with 11 Regional Guilds
represented.
About the ArtWork
This set of 4 quilts were commissioned by Merlegrace
in 2001 in her capacity as COO for JOWSCO – the
Johannesburg Word Summit Company. It hung at
Ubuntu Village and the Pretoria Museum as the
mural of Africa’s challenges to sustainable
development during the WSSD 2002.
For further info

Lot 39
Sustainable Water, Ocean & Sealife in Africa |
3/4 Quilts by The South African Quilters Guild
Development Official Country Exhibition at Ubuntu
Village | Provenance
The South African Quilters’ Guild was founded in and is
the co-ordinating body of quilting in South Africa as a
non-profit association with 11 Regional Guilds
represented.
About the ArtWork
This set of 4 quilts were commissioned by Merlegrace in
2001 in her capacity as COO for JOWSCO – the
Johannesburg Word Summit Company. It hung at
Ubuntu Village and the Pretoria Museum as the official
mural of Africa’s challenges to sustainable development
during the WSSD 2002.
For further info

Lot 40
Sustainable Economic Market Investment in Africa |
2/4 Quilts
by South African Quilters Guild | South Africa
2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development
Official Country Exhibition at Ubuntu Village | Provenance
The South African Quilters’ Guild was founded in and is the co-
ordinating body of quilting in South Africa as a non-profit
association with 11 Regional Guilds represented.
About the ArtWork
This set of 4 quilts were commissioned by Merlegrace in 2001 in
her capacity as COO for JOWSCO – the Johannesburg Word
Summit Company. It hung at Ubuntu Village and the Pretoria
Museum as the official mural of Africa’s challenges to sustainable
development during the WSSD 2002.
For further info

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Lot 41
Earth Angel | Nathanial
by Merlegrace O’Brien | South Africa
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas | Medium
1.2m x 1m | Dimensions
2002 United Nations World Summit on
Sustainable Development Official Country
Exhibition at Ubuntu 2016 Work in Progress |
Provenance
About the Artist | Merlegrace O’Brien is a
futurist & dancer who began painting during
her time of illness to express her creativity in
other ways
About the ArtWork
This artwork forms part of Merlegrace’s artwork
collection she painted during her time of
writing the book “AnEveNWorld an used it for
the cover.

Lot 42
Heyden 1
by Frans Smit | South Africa
Oil on Canvas | Medium
2015 | Provenance
About the Artist | Frans Smit has more than
thirty exhibitions under his name and Absa
L’atelier award nominee in 2008 and 2010,
Smit’s artwork has been showcased local and
internationally.
About the ArtWork
Smits focus is mainly on portraiture and still
lives, which blends in a degree of abstract. His
pieces are all oil-based artworks, which exhibit
a natural and organic balance between the
palette and textures used.
For further info
http://franssmit.co.za/

Lot 43
Love is Real | A Portrait to Maharishakti Merlegrace
by Andrew & Micha Weir| South Africa
Oil on Canvas | Medium
50cm x 20cm | Dimensions
2015 | Provenance
About the Artist | Andrew& Mica Weir create one of a
iconic textile art that is special & thoughtful – inspired by the
simple things that make places & people unique. Turning
one man's trash into another man's treasure is nothing
Indeed it is a truly African way to use free material and
imagination to create new values. We turn milk and juice
cartons into wallets, tomato and fruit tins into
and coke crates into upmarket dining chairs – with a
shoestring budget and a consideration for the
About the ArtWork
This artwork was created by Mica and Andrew inspired by
Merlegrace’s spiritual devotion.
For further info
http://www.maidinafrica.com

Lot 44
Madonna & Child
by Avril Atkins| South Africa
Oil on Canvas in guilded frame | Medium
62cm x 78cm framed | Dimensions
2015 | Provenance
About the Artist | Avril Atkins is an
unrecognized talent in the Africa art scene –
perhaps because she taught herself to paint
whilst working as a caregiver in Italy. She went
on the become Merlegrace’s caregiver during
2016/2017
About the ArtWork
This artwork Madonna and Child was painted
by Avril in Italy & gifted to Merlegrace.
For further info
https://www.facebook.com/avril.atkins1?ref=br_
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Thank you for your time & in anticipation of
your support for Merlegrace & her vision for
#AnEveNWorld Foundation
NPO. No 933952062.
May your 2018 be blessed!

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