Thupelo Cape Town exists to encourage personal artistic growth in the visual arts in a mutually supportive workshop environment that encourages freedom to experiment through a sharing of ideas, experiences, techniques and disciplines. We aim to create a synergy that will enlarge the artistic community and foster interrelationships through the Thupelo Workshop concept.

THUPELO: “TO TEACH BY EXAMPLE”

In a society which has been divided on so many levels, where self-assertion and motivation has not been encouraged, much work has to be done on an inter-personal and group level to correct the imbalances of the past.
As concerned South Africans, we in Thupelo in our daily lives as artists, make it our task to assist fellow artists to experience the culture of unity in action. We encourage self-expression and self-motivation to enhance self-worth.
The interaction by artists that occurs at our workshops should happen on a much wider scale; image making can break down myths and assumptions that inhibit our society.
We have organized Regional, National and International workshops, and continue to do so.