The Tina Skukan Gallery cordially invites you to

HERE AND THERE

by

Michèle Nigrini & Willem Pretorius

Join us for an exploration of contemporary painting.

Two artists. One shared history. Two very different ways of seeing.

Michèle Nigrini and Willem Pretorius share a long connection to the Eastern Free State village of Rosendal, but their artistic journeys have taken them in different directions.

Willem remains in Rosendal, documenting the changing Platteland and its evolving landscape through a realist eye, while Michèle, now living in Stanford, captures botanicals and her everyday surroundings through gesture, chance and expressive mark-making.

Willem expresses through his theme; Michèle expresses through her mark.

Here and There brings these distinct artistic languages together in a conversation about place, memory, landscape and the many ways we experience the world around us.

We would love you to join us.

The exhibition will be opened by renowned artist and animator,

Dr Diek Grobler

on Sunday 18 October 2026 at 11h30 – 14h00

and can be viewed until 19 November 2026

“Suddenly Spring”, Mixed media, 80 x 120 x 5cm, Michèle Nigrini
“Visgat”, Oil on canvas, 45 x 65cm, Willem Pretorius
“When the land turns”, Mixed media, 80 x 120 x 5cm, Michèle Nigrini
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“Dying day”, Oil on canvas, 45 x 65cm, Willem Pretorius

Tina Skukan Gallery
Gallery hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 09h00 – 17h00
Closed on Sundays and Mondays
6 Koedoeberg Road, Faerie Glen, Pretoria
Cell: 083 235 3899 or 083 653 6928
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