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Curating art into a living resource
Same Mdluli has opened the Standard Bank Art Lab, now showing mohair artworks featuring compelling collaborations between master weavers and local artists
08 June 2025 - 00:00
Standard Bank first opened its doors in 1863. Sheep farmers were the institution’s main clients back then, and I picture all those Victorian bank managers with their mutton-chop sideburns and cravats in dusty one-horse towns throughout the country dealing with drought and fluctuating prices for bales of wool shipped to London...
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