carl & aldo
48 Du Toit Street
Exhibiting Artists
Carl Collison
Carl is an internationally respected journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. A former researcher with Human Rights Watch, Carl worked on reports centred around LGBTIQ+ migrants and asylum seekers in South Africa as well as the impacts of Uganda’s most recent Anti-Homosexuality Bill. His groundbreaking work and passion for marginalised communities, gave rise to his founding and establishing the online publication, Beyond The Margins, which produces free-to-publish content highlighting the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ Africans. His documentary films have been screened across the globe. In 2023, he held his first solo international exhibition at Western Oregon
University, USA. Titled Islanded (No More), the exhibition is made up of short documentary films, photographs and text. Islanded (No More) – as
well as Collison’s broader work as a queer filmmaker – was the focus of the 2023 “Economies of Violence” talk, hosted by the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Carl has twice been nominated in the Best Human Interest category of South Africa’s national MDDA/Sanlam Local Media Awards and was
shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology. He was included in the inaugural #Awesome50 list, which recognises the work done by people across Africa to better the lives of the continent’s LGBTIQ+ people.
Amanda Green
Amanda Green is a South African artist who lives and works in Cape Town. She works in various media including etching, digital collage, drawing and painting. Green has exhibited her work in three group shows, and in 2023, her acrylic painting, Looking Back was placed in the Top 100 in the Sanlam Rust en Vrede Portrait competition.
Her digital print, Untitled VI, from her graduate
body of work was acquired by the University of Cape Town’s Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, and her digital print from the same body of work, Untitled I, is part of the Michaelis School of Fine Arts Print Cabinet. Amanda has also received the Katrine Harries Print Cabinet Award, was on the Dean’s Merit List for her Honours year at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and was awarded the best art student award, The Late Ahuva Glenn Prize For Painting, in high school.
Aldo Brincat
Aldo’s theatre career spanning 35 years, served as the foundation for his recent expansion and immersion into the visual arts. In 2018, his epic photography exhibition, Foreign Nationals, was invited to the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, at the University of London. He has since completed his
postgraduate degree in Fine Art at UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art (with a Distinction), and is currently a Master’s student in Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University. To date, Aldo has had multiple solo exhibitions in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, England, India, and recently, Sweden.
His 21st solo exhibition is scheduled for July, 2024.
Aldo’s primary career in the performing arts, was founded under the tutelage of the legendary Jacques Le Coq in Paris in the late 80’s and upon
his return to South Africa, he established Brincat Productions, an ad-hoc theatre company which focused on original, socio-political work, community theatre initiatives, and site-specific activations. During this time, Aldo received an invitation to perform for His Excellency, Nelson Mandela, on his birthday in 1997; and an invitation to showcase his environmental theatre work, Woza Waste Water, at the World Bank in Washington D.C., in 2000. In 2018, Brincat was commissioned to write a theatre piece, Light, for Ian Khama to celebrate his accession to the Presidency of Botswana. Aldo has been nominated for, and won, several awards, and was voted by the Mail & Guardian (SA), as among The Top Five Stage Performers of the Decade, 1999 – 2010. His most recent solo performance, The Moon Looks Delicious From Here, was invited for a season at the Bitesize Theatre Festival, at the prestigious Riverside Theatre in London, where it won The Special Jury Award. The production also won the prestigious Standard Bank Silver Ovation, at the 50th Anniversary of the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, South Africa.
Izette Roos
Izette Roos was born in Pretoria. She grew up in Johannesburg and this is where she was exposed to the cultures that influence her work. She studied sculpture, photography, and ceramic art at TUT, then known as Pretoria Technicon. Today she works as a sculptor in mixed media where her works play on ordinary yet iconic cultural signifiers.
