Draft:Southern Guild

Founded in 2008 by Trevyn McGowan and Julian McGowan, the gallery represents contemporary African designers and artists including Andile Dyalvane, Porky Hefer, Rich Mnisi and Zizipho Poswa.{{Cite web |date=16 January 2020 |title=Julian McGowan |url=https://www.cbnet.com/people/julian-mcgowan |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Creative Business Network}}{{Cite web |last=WATSON |first=JEANNE |title=SA DESIGN ROYALTY – JULIAN AND TREVYN MCGOWAN |url=https://shootmyhouse.tv/sa-design-royalty-julian-and-trevyn-mcgowan/ |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Shoot Mye House|date=August 2017 }}

Southern Guild opened its first permanent gallery space in Woodstock, Cape Town in 2014, and moved to its current location at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in 2017.{{Cite web |last=Krynauw |first=Misha |date=14 June 2022 |title='Spring Awakening' at Southern Guild' |url=https://artthrob.co.za/2022/06/14/rot-and-rebirth-spring-awakening-at-southern-guild/ |website=Art Throb}} It was the first African gallery to be invited to showcase at Design Miami in 2011 and at Christie’s London’s annual design auction in 2015. ​​The gallery collaborated Vitra Design Museum on their “Making Africa” exhibition in 2015.{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design |url=https://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailpages/making-africa.html |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Vitra Design Museum}} They represented South Africa at the 2016 London Design Biennial with an exhibition by artist Porky Hefer at Somerset House, London.{{Cite web |title=Porky Hefer Endangered Collection, Design Miami Basel |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/porky-hefer-endangered-collection-design-miami-basel |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Wallpaper|date=13 June 2018 }}

In 2020, the gallery collaborated with the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial on Porky Hefer’s exhibition ‘Plastocene - Marine Mutants from a Disposable World.’{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Porky Hefer: Plastocene |url=https://thedesignedit.com/porky-hefer-plastocene/ |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=The Design Edit}} and on the exhibition “Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial” at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial |url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/nature/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909132836/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/current-exhibitions/beauty-cooper-hewitt-design-triennial/ |archive-date=9 September 2020 |access-date=1 September 2020 |website=Cooper Hewitt}} In 2021 they collaborated with the Friedman Benda gallery in New York on the exhibition ‘iThongo’ (Ancestral Dreamscape) with artist Andile Dyalvane.{{Cite web |last=Carlson |first=Cajsa |date=3 March 2021 |title=Andile Dyalvane draws on Xhosa heritage for iThongo seating collection |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03/03/ithongo-seating-collection-andile-dyalvane-xhosa-heritage/ |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Dezeen}}

The gallery has curated more than 50 exhibitions in South Africa, and been invited to participate in international art fairs including Design Miami, Design Miami/Art Basel, The Salon Art & Design, PAD London, Design Days Dubai, and Collective in New York.{{Cite web |last=BURMAN |first=SUJATA |date=30 September 2019 |title=PAD London debuts eleven galleries from South Africa to Barcelona |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/pad-london-2019-highlights |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Wallpaper}}{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Exhibitions |url=https://southernguild.co.za/exhibitions/ |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Southern Guild}}{{Cite web |date=20 March 2014 |title=DESIGN DAYS DUBAI 1 |url=https://www.frameweb.com/article/design-days-dubai-1 |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Frame magazine}}

Southern Guild represents several artists, including:{{Cite web |title=Artists |url=https://southernguild.co.za/artists/ |access-date=1 September 2022 |website=Southern Guild}}

• Adam Birch
• Andile Dyalvane
• Cheick Diallo
• Chuma Maweni
• Conrad Hicks
• Dokter and Misses
• Jesse Ede
• Jozua Gerrard
• Justine Mahoney
• Madoda Fani
• Nandipha Mntambo
• Navel Seakamela
• Patrick Bongoy
• Porky Hefer
• Rich Mnisi
• Shirley Fintz
• Sisonke Papu
• Stanislaw Trzebinski
• Zizipho Poswa

• South African artists
• African art

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