Ugandan Artist Katesi Jacqueline Kalange is the 2026 Cassirer Welz Award Winner 

We are pleased to announce that Katesi Jacqueline Kalange is the 2026 winner of the Cassirer Welz Award. She has been awarded a 3-month artist’s residency at Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, which will culminate in a solo exhibition.  Strauss & Co, in association with Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, announced the winner of the prestigious Cassirer

Strauss & Co offers private collection of Ardmore Ceramics

In 1985, Fée Halsted founded Ardmore Ceramics on the Ardmore Farm in KZN. It has grown to become the largest ceramic art studio in South Africa. The studio began with her first student, Bonnie Ntshalintshali, and has since expanded to include around 80 artists. The studio has also become internationally renowned, its quirky and colourful