The William Humphreys Art Gallery is proud to announce the release of two beautifully produced publications — Inclusivity & Diversity and Snapshots from WHAG Collection — each offering a unique lens into the richness of South Africa’s artistic identity.

Whether you are an art lover, teacher, collector, student, or visitor discovering our museum for the first time, these books provide an accessible yet insightful look into the works that shape our story.

Inclusivity & Diversity

A bold and expansive celebration of South African visual culture, this catalogue brings celebrated masters and emerging voices into one compelling conversation. Rich essays, close artwork readings, and striking images trace the intersections of identity, belonging, memory, and imagination.

A vibrant dialogue across time and medium, Inclusivity & Diversity draws from the William Humphreys Art Gallery’s permanent collection to map the richness of South African visual culture. Featuring lyrical realism, township watercolours, modernist experiments, sculpture, and Karoo rock art, this volume places celebrated masters alongside emergent voices, inviting readers to reconsider canon, memory and belonging. Essays and close readings illuminate the intersections of tradition and modernity, gender and identity, labour and play. Curated by Chepape Makgato and edited by Lelethu Sobekwa, with texts by Khumo Mcunu and Kutlwano Kgaoganyeng, this book is both celebration and challenge: an invitation to see a nation reflected in many faces.

An essential companion to the WHAG foyer exhibition, Inclusivity & Diversity brings together works that trace South Africa’s artistic continuities and ruptures — a bold, humane portrait of a plural nation.

Snapshots from WHAG Collection

Snapshots from WHAG Collection takes readers on an intimate visual journey through photography, mixed media, and paintings drawn from WHAG’s permanent collection. Younger curatorial voices bring bold perspectives that reframe South Africa’s image-making traditions — revealing the everyday, the poetic, and the defiantly alive.

This richly illustrated volume invites readers into a focused encounter with works from the William Humphreys Art Gallery. Composed of striking black-and-white photographs with moments of colour and painterly intervention, the book spans generations and media, from ritual and portraiture to urban life and experimental collage. Curatorial texts by Chepape Makgato, with contributions from Lelethu Sobekwa and Malikah Meyer, bring fresh, generational perspectives that reframe the museum’s holdings as a living conversation. An accessible, thought-provoking catalogue, it foregrounds emergent voices while honoring the complex histories that shape contemporary South African art.

A perfect companion for anyone curious about the evolving stories behind South African art.

How to Purchase

Both publications are available directly from WHAG:

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