Artist Collective — Salt River, Cape Town — Est. 2020

Sidetrack Studios

A dynamic creative collective of visual artists working from private studio spaces in the Spice Yard, Salt River.

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Who we are

A collective built on studio practice

SideTrack Studios is a dynamic creative collective comprising visual artists who utilise private studio spaces for their professional practices. Situated in the Spice Yard of Salt River, the collective represents a collaborative, supportive community that fosters innovation and creativity.

Nestled within the Spice Yard, SideTrack Studios enjoys a bustling, multifaceted environment that reflects the vibrancy of Cape Town's creative scene. Its tenants include a diverse range of enterprises — from film industries and distilleries to coffee shops and eateries. A growing hub for creatives and forward-thinking entrepreneurs.

2020
Established
CPT
Salt River
17
Resident artists
Studio
Studio
Sidetrack Studios courtyard with mural
Courtyard & mural
Sidetrack Studios courtyard
Courtyard seating
Rooftop courtyard garden
Rooftop garden
Shared kitchen and common area
Shared kitchen
Undercover parking
Undercover parking

Studio spaces

Amenities & facilities

All members of SideTrack Studios have complete access to the following amenities and facilities.

Shared undercover parking
High speed fibre internet
24-hour access to lock-up-and-go studio
Access to rooftop courtyard / garden
Weekly cleaner
Shared kitchen and common area
Visitors parking for guests
Website promotion and online gallery
24-hour on-site security
Access to food, coffee, brewery and more on site
Open studio events and exhibitions
Studio availability

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The artists

Meet the collective

Sixteen artists across painting, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media and more.

Adele van Heerden
Adele van Heerden
Ink & Gouache · Curator
Cape Town artist Adele van Heerden pays close attention to complexity. As an artist and curator living in a world where the binary has been replaced by the spectrum, Van Heerden revels in the beauties of the multifarious, creating intricate pieces in ink & gouache on paper which juxtapose the natural world with human history. She produces finely detailed, often layered work as a personal response to the particular social, historical and political conditions she finds herself in. After graduating from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2010, she went on to obtain a BA in History and Politics (UNISA) and an Honours Degree in Curatorship from UCT in 2015.
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Aimee Lindeque
Aimee Lindeque
Watercolour · Illustration · Murals
Aimee Lindeque was born and raised on a farm in Mpumalanga, South Africa. After matriculating in 2013, she moved to Cape Town to study Fine Art at Michaelis UCT, majoring in Sculpture and Art History. Aimee creates intricate watercolour and acrylic paintings, ink drawings, murals and illustrations. She playfully describes her work as "Hieronymus Bosch meets Where's Wally."
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Aviwe Plaatjie
Aviwe Plaatjie
Oil Painting · Printmaking · Linocut
Painter and printmaker Aviwe Plaatje uses portraiture to explore the world around him. Working primarily with oil painting and the relief printing technique of linocut, he renders people from his community. His intricate, multi-layered linocuts use the medium's propensity towards texture to create uniquely expressive portraits. "In my artwork I document scenes I come across in day-to-day life. My inspiration comes from the world around me, I love absorbing my surroundings. I simply comment on life."
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Claude Chandler
Claude Chandler
Contemporary Portrait · Stamp Technique
Claude Chandler is a Cape Town-based artist with a N.Diploma in Fine Arts who works out of SideTrack Studios, which he also manages. His work consists of large abstract portraits created using his unique 'stamp' technique. Chandler has participated in numerous art fairs, both locally and abroad, and is inspired by digital technologies and the ways in which we perceive the world through screens and lenses.
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Elske Henderson
Elske Henderson
Mixed Media · Sculpture · Animation
Concerned with issues such as overpopulation and fast-growing cities, Elske probes the loss and search for the human soul in the urbanized world. She responds through 2D mixed media paintings, drawings, etchings, 3D sculptures and animated media. Beginning 2022, ants started to populate her work — symbolising human-urban communities and exposing our tendency towards individualism as opposed to the common good.
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Fadiel Hermans
Fadiel Hermans
Oil & Spray Paint · Street Art · Narrative
Born in 1971 in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap, Fadiel Hermans paints from memory, drawing on the people, places and stories of his childhood. Working primarily in oils and spray paint, his bold, narrative style blends street art, pop art and graphic design with satirical undertones, inviting multiple readings of each piece. Self-taught and driven by a lifelong passion for painting, his work has been selected for limited-edition Diasec© prints and a 2025 artist residency in Leipzig, Germany. He is represented in Cape Town by The Artist Gallery.
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Frances White
Frances White
Oil · Enamel · Pop Art
Frances White is a contemporary artist and designer living in Cape Town. Born in KwaZulu Natal and raised in Johannesburg, Frances majored in English literature, history of art and painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT. She plays with the boundary between art and design, drawing on influences of Pop Art, pattern, fabric and surface design. Her work in enamel, glitter, reflective and holographic vinyls tries to capture her fascination with light.
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James Labuschagne
James Labuschagne
Portraiture · Drawing · Painting
James Labuschagne explores human subjectivity through portraiture and employs a thoroughly studied and technically rigorous approach to painting and drawing. His work grapples with how our visual experience grows increasingly distorted and deranged in a digitised and alienated world, working with traditional methods that position themselves at odds with a culture obsessed with efficiency and relentless acceleration. He has taught and exhibited internationally.
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Joanna Lee Miller
Joanna Lee Miller
Plein Air · Oil · Portraiture
Joanna paints landscapes and portraits to hold onto a moment in time, to feel present, to celebrate being alive, and to connect each of us to what is deep within us. She paints en plein air and from life, with an expressive, bold, quick style. She recently returned to Cape Town after studying for three years at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, having previously lived and worked in New York, London and Singapore.
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Karen Wykerd
Karen Wykerd
Embroidery · Painting · Urban Landscapes
Karen Wykerd is a Cape Town-based artist who works across a range of media. Using embroidery and painting on canvas, paper or glass, she combines dissolution with detail to express her ongoing fascination with everyday city life. Her endless search for light takes her down busy streets, forest paths and high above the city — captured first in photography and then in pigment or thread.
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Kate Schärf
Kate Schärf
Botanical Painting · Drawing
Kate (b. 1993, Pietermaritzburg) is a Cape Town-based visual artist. She received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art from the University of Stellenbosch in 2018 and a Master's degree in Visual Art from the same institution in 2021. Known for her organic, plant-inspired paintings and drawings, her 'foliagescapes' reflect her fascination with botanical art while functioning as an expression of the uplifting, calming qualities inherent within nature.
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Lauren Ratcliffe
Lauren Ratcliffe
Acrylic · Oil · Interior Spaces
Lauren Ratcliffe is a Cape Town-based contemporary artist whose work explores the spaces we inhabit and the emotions they hold. Working in a playful conversation between acrylics and oils, Lauren builds her canvases with layers of texture, pattern, and bold colour. Her paintings centre on the idea of "spaces" — rooms, corners, objects, and arrangements that hold meaning far beyond their physical form.
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Leandri Erlank
Leandri Erlank
Visual Artist
As an artist, Leandri is constantly exploring new ways to depict that which she believes in and connects with in the most honest way possible. She trusts that the viewer will experience something when looking at work that was created with passion, but also with context that is personal to the artist. This is the power of art.
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Marli Steyl
Marli Steyl
Oil · Alcohol Ink · Identity
Marli Steyl is a Fine Artist working mainly in oils and alcohol ink. Her point of origin is her place as a young, white, Afrikaans-speaking female in post-colonial, post-Apartheid South Africa. Family photographs are the source material for many of her paintings — snapshots of joyous experiences from the 1930s to the early 1990s that she returns to with difficulty, using her art to explore the past and present.
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Selvin November
Selvin November
Portraiture · Painting
Selvin November (b. 1969) was born in, and still lives and works in Cape Town. He completed a Diploma in Art and Design at Cape Technikon and was awarded a three-month residency on Robben Island in 1996. His latest solo exhibitions include The Portrait Speaks at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town (2008) and Young, Free and Single as the Festival Artist at the University of Stellenbosch Woordfees (2019).
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Tanja Truscott
Tanja Truscott
Abstract · Painterly
Tanja Truscott's artwork is born from a fascination with painterly abstraction and the power it has to engage us visually and emotionally. She works intuitively and is inspired by sounds and sensations from the outdoors, or by literature, poetry and music. Born in the Netherlands and now living in Cape Town, Truscott received a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Stellenbosch in 1984 and turned to painting full time in 2015.
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Mary Visser
Mary Visser
Alumni · Mixed Media · Collage
Mary Visser's studio practice is centred around experimentation and the invention of spaces. In the studio she makes, tests, plays and pushes around materials, colour and forms. Collages, 3D objects and scraps of studio detritus along with numerous images of fashion, interiors and art scatter her studio floor, triggering chance happenings in her paintings.
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Address
100 Voortrekker Rd
Salt River, Cape Town, 7925
Email
claudechandler@hotmail.com
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