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.
Festivals
Festivals
The first Light Art Exhibition ran from 8 December 2018 until 31 January 2019.
From our Blog
The art of water: celebrating this life-giving force
The wall outside the Spier Artisan Studio is now home to a new mural by acclaimed artist Liza Grobler.
Light Art Festival 2018 to illuminate historic Stellenbosch wine farm
Spier presents its first Light Art Festival from 8 December 2018 – 31 January 2019. Each night, this historic wine farm in Stellenbosch will light up with an array of artworks incorporating light and sound.
Material Gains: Contemporary African Art from the Spier Collection
Material Gains, which opens 25 July at the Stellenbosch University Museum, showcases more than 50 works from Spier’s diverse collection of contemporary art. The pieces are by emerging and established artists working across the African continent – including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Congo and Nigeria.
Mosaic magic comes to Spier
Eight, Spier’s acclaimed farm-to-table restaurant, has a new neighbour. The next time you come for lunch, arrive a little earlier and pop into the new Spier Artisan Studio – Stellenbosch next door. In this airy, light-filled space, rows of jars containing brightly coloured glass line the walls. In the glow of the chandelier overhead, artisans are quietly at work. They’re using hand-cut mosaic or beads to create, with meticulous precision, interpretations of works by South African fine artists.