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30/05/2026

NOW ON SHOW AT EVERARD READ FRANSCHHOEK 🐉

SWAIN HOOGERVORST | After Tomorrow
23 May - 20 June 2026
📍20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek

“Tomorrow, the title of my previous collection of paintings, was about the uncertainty of what the next day might hold. Paradoxically, After Tomorrow is about the envisioned certainty of the future while simultaneously acknowledging that things could change.

I want to call these paintings landscapes, but while writing, I realise that in doing so, the term ‘landscape’ implies a view of the outside world, when really these feel more like views from the inside out. I have covered myself in green.

Green has connotations of peace, tranquillity, calm, and even safety. To me, these paintings offer a form of catharsis, but they are also indicative of a grapple, a search. Over time, recognisable elements suggesting a reference to a landscape began to disappear. Flowers were removed and eventually, in many instances, even the horizon. Thin, delicate lines were slowly replaced and covered by thicker lines. Areas once full of detail became blurred and obscured from view. There is an ongoing push and pull between what can be seen and what is hidden.

Everything becomes inextricable. The quintessential decision is when to stop.” - Swain Hoogervorst, 2026

Featured here are installation images from the show, make sure to visit the gallery before 20 June 2026 to view. 💫

Installation photography by Mentz Germishuis

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29/05/2026

This time last week! Looking back at Everard Read’s booth from last weekend’s RMB Latitudes Art Fair 💫 .online

Last weekend was the annual .online Art Fair in Johannesburg where showcased a dual-focused exhibition of works by both our emerging and established artists across painting, sculpture and mixed media. Unfolding within this year’s “Oasis” theme, the mixed presentation considered ideas of renewal, connection and engagement and complimented by the stunning Chapel space at Shepstone Gardens.

The solo booth was anchored by a dedicated presentation of works from , whose interdisciplinary approach to ceramics and painting unfolds through a nuanced exploration of materiality and gesture.

Thank you to everyone who visited the booth, engaged with the works and contributed to another memorable weekend at RMB Latitudes Art Fair. See you next year!

Installation images, credit: Anthea Pokroy

28/05/2026

GIRLS 3000 | WALKABOUT 💅🏼
Saturday, 30 May 2026 @ 12pm
📍Everard Read Cape Town, 3 Portswood Road

Join .shinners and this Saturday for an exciting curator-led walkabout of the x collaborative exhibition GIRLS 3000!

From their inaugural exhibition GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS (2024) to GIRLS TOO: TOO MUCH, NEVER ENOUGH (2025), Dominique Cheminais and Keely Shinners have been interested in exhibitions that explore femininity and its discontents. Now, through their Cape Town-based project space, GIRLS GALLERY, they make ambitious, DIY shows that err on the side of the maximalist, the over-the-top, the wacky, weird, glamorous.

And now the GIRLS 3000 exhibition, a collaboration with Everard Read, is GIRLS with the volume turned up. The works meditate on femininity at the edge of femininity: its contradictions, excesses, slippages, its mess.

The show concludes 2 June 2026.

📸 Installation Photography by Michael Hall

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24/05/2026

A closer look at some of ‘s new body of paintings from his solo exhibition After Tomorrow, now currently on show at Everard Read Franschhoek 🪽

SWAIN HOOGERVORST | After Tomorrow
23 May - 20 June 2026
📍20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek

“I want to call these paintings landscapes, but while writing, I realise that in doing so, the term ‘landscape’ implies a view of the outside world, when really these feel more like views from the inside out. I have covered myself in green.

Green has connotations of peace, tranquillity, calm, and even safety. To me, these paintings offer a form of catharsis, but they are also indicative of a grapple, a search. Over time, recognisable elements suggesting a reference to a landscape began to disappear. Flowers were removed and eventually, in many instances, even the horizon. Thin, delicate lines were slowly replaced and covered by thicker lines. Areas once full of detail became blurred and obscured from view. There is an ongoing push and pull between what can be seen and what is hidden. ‘After Tomorrow’ is about the envisioned certainty of the future while simultaneously acknowledging that things could change.

Everything becomes inextricable. The quintessential decision is when to stop.” - Swain Hoogervorst, 2026

To view the full show, come through to Everard Read Franschhoek - open daily from 9:30 - 5pm!

📮Exhibition catalogue requests via DM

23/05/2026

Now on show at is a dynamic new solo exhibition of painting and bronze sculpture by 🔳

LIONEL SMIT | Reduced Element
📍Everard Read London, 80 Fulham Road, UK
15 May - 13 June 2026

Best known for his contemporary portraiture, Smit’s art is defined by a profound and ongoing dialogue between painting and sculpture.

In this new body of work, Smit continues to explore portraiture and themes of identity, but with a deliberately restrained palette.

The subjects of his portraits exude strength and dignity; some have a meditative quality while others evoke a sense of vulnerability conveyed by the sitter’s averted gaze or contemplative expression.

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Make sure to visit the beautiful Everard Read London space to view Smit’s new show until 13 June 2026!

All installation photography featured here by Damian Griffiths

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20/05/2026

Join Everard Read Franschhoek this upcoming weekend to celebrate the opening reception of a new solo show by 🌀

SWAIN HOOGERVORST | After Tomorrow
23 May - 20 June 2026
📍20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek

“Tomorrow, the title of my previous collection of paintings, was about the uncertainty of what the next day might hold. Paradoxically, After Tomorrow is about the envisioned certainty of the future while simultaneously acknowledging that things could change.

I want to call these paintings landscapes, but while writing, I realise that in doing so, the term ‘landscape’ implies a view of the outside world, when really these feel more like views from the inside out. I have covered myself in green.

Green has connotations of peace, tranquillity, calm, and even safety. To me, these paintings offer a form of catharsis, but they are also indicative of a grapple, a search. Over time, recognisable elements suggesting a reference to a landscape began to disappear. Flowers were removed and eventually, in many instances, even the horizon. Thin, delicate lines were slowly replaced and covered by thicker lines. Areas once full of detail became blurred and obscured from view. There is an ongoing push and pull between what can be seen and what is hidden.

Everything becomes inextricable. The quintessential decision is when to stop.” - Swain Hoogervorst, 2026

Opening reception: Saturday, 23 May 2026 ! 🥂

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15/05/2026

Next up at Everard Read Franschhoek, we are excited to announce a new solo show by Swain Hoogervorst 🐉

SWAIN HOOGERVORST | After Tomorrow
23 May - 20 June 2026
📍Everard Read Franschhoek

We warmly invite you to join us and at the gallery on Saturday 23 May at 11AM to celebrate the opening of the exhibition 🥂

ARTWORK DETAILS:
You had to make the most of the light (if you wanted to see her blossom), 2026
Oil on canvas
160 x 200 cm

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08/05/2026

CLOSING SOON!

Visit us at Everard Read on Leeu Estates this weekend for your last chance to view Lar Elling’s brilliant solo exhibition, Dreams of Reason ☁️

LARS ELLING | Dreams of Reason
Closes 09 May 2026
📍Leeu Estates, Dassenberg Road, Franschhoek

‘Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters’, is the title of an etching by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). I’ve often wondered about that sentence; In Spanish, sueño means both ‘sleep’ and ‘dream.’ Is Goya saying, ‘watch out for sleep, because your dreams might scare you’, akin to something like Nightmare on Elm Street, or rather, is he saying ‘do not dream while awake, because your rationality will produce horrors’, more in line with ideas of world domination and destruction. I wonder...

So where do they come from, these images? The images that eventually turn into paintings. If night is a dreamscape on the open sea, then daylight should constitute the terra firma of rationality. To me, the unsure footing of the shallow shoreline, half asleep, half awake, is the most fertile ground for the mind’s images. Not the surrealism of dreams, where horses can fly, but the, half lucid imagery that belongs neither to night nor day.

I think Goya gets it. We are sense and we are sensibility and the most interesting images emerge when we find ourselves in states of lucid dreaming.” - Lars Elling, 2026

Don’t miss out on one of Norway’s most acclaimed artists’ first solo exhibition on South African soil and visit the gallery between 10:00-17:00!

📸 All Installation photography by

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06/05/2026

Tomorrow night, takes over for one of the most exciting collaborations of the year! 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼

From their inaugural exhibition GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS (2024) to GIRLS TOO: TOO MUCH, NEVER ENOUGH (2025), Dominique Cheminais and Keely Shinners have been interested in exhibitions that explore femininity and its discontents. Now, through their Cape Town-based project space, GIRLS GALLERY, they make ambitious, DIY shows that err on the side of the maximalist, the over-the-top, the wacky, weird, glamorous.

GIRLS 3000, a collaboration with Everard Read, is GIRLS with the volume turned up. The works meditate on femininity at the edge of femininity: its contradictions, excesses, slippages, its mess.

Join us at Everard Read Cape Town (3 Portswood Road) tomorrow from 6pm to celebrate the opening of this iconic collaboration from a host of veteran and emerging artists.

Opening sponsored by 🍺

📮 For catalogue requests, please DM or directly.

03/05/2026

Lady Skollie | SOUR GRAPES 🍇
25 April - 16 May 2026
📍Everard Read Franschhoek, 20 Huguenot Road

Featured here are installation shots and some artwork images from the show, make sure to visit the gallery before 16 May 2026 to view ‘s powerful new collection of work in full!

‘Papsak Propaganda’ is a concept coined by artist Lady Skollie in 2017 to highlight the effect of the ‘Dop System’ - a colonial labour practice in which farm workers were paid in alcohol instead of wages, which was only formally outlawed in 2004.

The dismantling of this system did not erase its impact. In many farming communities across South Africa, patterns of dependency persist across generations, shaped by histories in which alcohol functioned as both currency and control. Contemporary data continues to reflect the scale of alcohol-related harm across the continent, yet dependency is often framed as an individual condition rather than as the enduring legacy of these systems.

Today, the Cape Winelands are synonymous with leisure and luxury; wedding destinations, fine dining, curated tastings and pastoral beauty. For Lady Skollie, however, these landscapes remain inseparable from personal and inherited memory.

“Using myself as guinea pig, I try to understand the effects of being drunk, being sober, taking payment in MCC, and spending my money on wine…”

Credit for all installation photography to

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