Tshepo Bopape to present solo exhibition titled Sea-Crits in the water
By CityLife Arts Writer
Tshepo Bopape, the winner of the 2025 DALRO Visual Arts Merit Award is set to present their solo exhibition titled, Sea-Crits In The Water, after a nine month long artist residency. In 2024 the Dramatic Artistic Literary Rights Organisation(DALRO) partnered with the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize Foundation to launch the first ever DALRO Visual Arts Merit Award, won by Tshepo Bopape.
Over the course of nine months, Tshepo was incubated to create a comprehensive body of work for his first ever solo exhibition, in a live -in studio at Ellis House Art Building. The artists chose to conceptualize his exhibition around the concept of Water and it’s relativity to African Spirituality.
The exhibition highlights the artists personal spiritual journey with exciting anecdotes, mythology and nostalgia.
Tshepo Bopape’s artistic practice studies and interrogates how beliefs impact our daily lives.
His canvases depict deep spiritual inner workings in a quest to find meaning and understanding. His artistic practice does the work of bringing the personal into the public to communally create and share insights. ‘Sea-crits Of the Water’ is a critical study of Water. revealing the truths of its life-giving power. It dives into the unknown, revealing how the Spirit of the Most High may manifest as water, and lead one to acknowledge their higher self.
This body of work explores concepts of faith, conspiracy, mythology and indigenous knowledge systems in a celebration of African metaphysics- The science of African people.
Foregrounding the systematically marginalized ancient African knowledge systems, ‘Sea- Crits Of The Water’ invites viewers into a state of prayer, asking and meditation.
The exhibition will be open for public viewing from the 3 rd of April at the DALRO headquarters in Bramley.
Dates: 3 – 30 April 2025
Venue: DALRO, 15 Forest Road, Bramley, Johannesburg