INSIGHTS & INSPIRATION:
unleashing the power of the imagination
Spier Arts Trust
Arts Trust
The Spier Arts Trust, was established to generate shared value for the makers and buyers of South African art. Through curating art portfolios and managing visual arts projects, the trust facilitates collaboration as well as growth opportunities for visual artists and artisans in South Africa.
The Creative Block Project
Creative Block Project
Creative Block, a Spier Growing for Good learning initiative, invites artists, both established and emerging, to create work on a 18cm x 18cm blank block. The blocks are submitted for critique, and the best are purchased for resale to corporate patrons and the general public. Collectors then choose a number of blocks and hang them together, building an impactful, collective artwork that has the potential to be greater than the sum of its parts. Spier named its blended wine range after the project – the award-winning Creative Block 2, 3 and 5 wines.
Explore
Explore
Art is everywhere at Spier. Scattered across the farm, you’ll discover works and installations from the Spier Art Collection — one of the largest collections of contemporary South African art in the country.
From our Blog
Street Art at Spier train station spotlights importance of wine and hospitality industries
A mural by street artist Ello Xray Eyez on the walls of the train station opposite the farm entrance offers a powerful reminder of the importance of wine and hospitality to the Western Cape economy. Both sectors have been hit hard by the pandemic.
Inspiring performances to celebrate the opening of Spier Light Art
Join a procession across a multi-sensory, cross-cultural wonderland featuring dancers, stilt walkers and other illuminating enchantments at the opening ceremony of Spier Light Art.
Making mosaic magic at the Spier Arts Academy
The Spier Arts Academy is a vibrant mosaic and ceramics apprenticeship programme in central Cape Town. It’s one of Spier’s Growing for Good initiatives that invests in learning that empowers communities to make positive social and environmental change.
I See U: Imagining a Space for Freedom Art Exhibition
Featuring more than 35 works from the Spier Collection, the I See U art exhibition will be showcased at Spier from 29 August until end March 2020.