The Artists

ND Mazin (Andy Mason)
N.D. Mazin is a cartoonist, illustrator, book designer, editor, writer, academic and goofyfoot longboarder. His underground comix, some going back to the ‘70s, include Cogent and Crint, Vittoke in Azania, The Adventures of Alison Wonderland, Praxis and Paranoia, The Big Chillum, the Legend of Blue Mamba, The Vittokes, New Planet TV and AZANIAMANIA. His new strip, Apocalypse WOW, now appears on www.wavescape.co.za. His alter ego, Andy Mason, is head of the Comic Art Unit at Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts (CCIBA). His book on cartooning in South Africa, What’s So Funny?, will be published in December.

Scott Robertson (2 on 1)
Scott Robertson (a.k.a Dirty Sanchez) combines a love of all things glamorous and filthy (he calls it DirtyGlamourotica) with a dedication to the purest principles of design. Scott's illustrations have appeared in diverse publications ranging from i-Jusi, One Small Seed, SL, IdN and the Design Indaba Magazine to the Leurzers Archive. He has ridden the corporate bus, exhibited amoral canvases, customised shoes and skate decks, been the mysterious figurehead of a street wear label and is presently developing a range of limited edition toys. Always subversive, sometimes scandalous, never soft.

Kim Longhurst (2 on 1)Kim Longhurst believes that craft is next to godliness. She is a mama, designer, illustrator, painter, embroiderer, gardener, purveyor of all things beautiful (and kitsch), partner to Scott Robinson. Her work has progressed from a shoe shine poster, the side of a bus, an underground zine, packaging, posters, t-shirts and book covers to publication in Martin Dawber's Big Book of Fashion. Kim has taken part in collaborative exhibitions, curated an exhibition of seven of Durban's top illustrators and made a curious little solo show, more cabinet of curiosities than traditional fine art.

Ewok (2 on 1)
Iain “Creamy Ewok Baggends” Robinson is a Hip Hop poet from Durban, "Poison City", South Africa. His first introduction to Hip Hop culture was graffiti writing and it remains his first love (second only to his beautiful wife). Street art and graphic novels are major influences in his design and performance work. He works as a performing poet (Rapper), Aerosol Artist (Writer) and trained theatre actor. He is the founding director of the Life Check Youth Development Initiative, a non-profit Hip Hop Culture organisation promoting youth development events and activities around the country. Ewok also spends plenty of time on stage as the front man for Electronic Rap outfit SPITMUNKY, has released three independent albums, and has published two anthologies of his Spoken Word text through Echoing Green Press.

Bones (2 on 1)
Bones is an underground, renegade graffiti provocateur who hails from Durban. His wild style graf art speaks for itself, which is perhaps why he didn’t send us a bio. He designed the top of the board.

Chip Snaddon
Chip was born in little town of Estcourt, Kwa-Zulu Natal in 1964. He went to school in Cape Town, Sedgefield, Plett, Grahamstown and Hilton, before attending UCT and earning a Fine Art degree. Chip has been working as a political cartoonist for the Cape Argus since 1997, on top of being a full-time Dad to Georgie, surfing a lot, and putting the finishing touches on his house and garden near the sea. He is an occasional watercolourist and painter (he started with the garage roof) and he promises he will paint more when surfing, house finishing and parenting allow.

O

snat DE Villiers
Osnat was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She has been drawing and painting since she was 3 years old and as a kid specialised in art on the back of the math books. Osnat studied Art and teaching art in Tel Aviv, before moving to SA in1988. “I enjoy drawing and am always inspired by the beauty and power in nature”. She lives in Scarborough with renowned big wave pioneer Pierre de Villiers, where she paints on surfboards, paper and canvass and runs an art studio.

Ice7
Tony aka Ice7 was born in Cape Town and was introduced to Hip Hop and graffiti art at an early age, while growing up in Mitchell's Plain. After school he studied Graphic Design for three which allowed him to explore various art mediums. Ice works in spray can art, freehand airbrush art, and computer aided design. In the 1990s, he worked on projects with local and international artists and was viewed as one of the forerunners of the South African graffiti art movement. In 2000, Ice7, Sky 189 (Everon Orange) and Smirk (Nadine Brussel) formed an art collective named WOTS (Word On The Street) that worked for the advertising

35.ten.73
35.ten.73 likes to design, illustrate and express by means of any creative medium. She creates personal interpretations from visual stimulus of her surroundings and experiences, and works in a stylistic two-three dimensional style. She is part of the Love and Hate crew, and considered to be in the vanguard of new young artists in South Africa. Her piece is inspired by a curiosity with surfing, having never surfed before, dealing with the idea of playing with nature while still being completely at its mercy.

Matthew Pinker
Matthew Grew up in Cape Town and, went to UCT Michaelis Art School, and studied Graphic design way back in the pre-computer age. He spent a few years working and travelling (army option 2) before returning to SA, where he started a textile design and printing company, New World Printers. He has lived in Spain, surfing and raising a child, but missed the sunshine and big skies and open space. Matthew is caught between drawing and screen-printing, which he loves equally and he is trying to juggle both. Matthew comes from an artistic line and his father Stanley Pinker is a renowned South African painter, now retired.

Black Koki
Black koki is a Fine Artist, street artist and illustrator based in Cape Town. He works with Love and Hate studio, a company he founded with artist 35.ten.73 in 2004, recently focusing mainly on gallery work, murals, collaborations, publishing and illustrations. He works in a wide range of media, using various themes, opposites being a favorite. Depending on the project, his work comprises a mix between the detailed, flat, abstracted, realistic, illustrated and painted.

Claire Homewood & Masi kids
Claire Homewood is an artist based in Muizenberg village. Her creative output beats rhythms across a multitude of media as she skips between drawing/ illustration, photography, sculpture/ Installation, design, painting, mural, film, community projects, craft and collage. With a particular interest in the creative facilitation of individuals and groups, she has welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with a group of young development surfers from Masiphumelele.

Patrick Burnett (2 on 1)
Patrick Burnett is a journalist who grew up in Kalk Bay. He has surfed the waves of the Cape Peninsula for the last 20 years. Three years ago, he started experimenting with making hollow wooden surfboards out of recycled or locally-grown wood. The hobby and passion evolved into Groundswell Surfboards, a project to make handcrafted hollow wooden surfboards that have great design features, top quality woodworking, are environmentally considerate and a pleasure to surf. He takes orders for custom hollow wooden surfboards and has focused on making classic surfboards such as single fins, fishes and mini-malibus. He is building a 9' 0" longboard and a 9' 6" big wave gun.

Kelly John Gough (2 on 1)
Kelly showed an aptitude for art from an early age, and started receiving instruction from his father, a fine artist, from the age of four. He was fascinated by human form, and this grew into the style you see today. He studied graphic design, which led to a frustrating eight years in the advertising industry. He continued to paint as a form of release - group exhibitions at The Golden Dawn Gallery (1999), Eddie Zoom Gallery (2002), Dorp Street Gallery and several others. He sells most of his works through interior design stores like Colonial House and various galleries. Many have been resold to international boutique hotels and guest houses. His work featured in The National Arts Diary (1999) and House and Leisure Magazine. In 2002, Kelly received patronage which has enabled him to pursue his dream full time.