22: Schalk van der Merwe - Courage wears a velvet dress
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English - December 02, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBusiness Arts Design design creativity sustainability inspiration ngo social enterprise climate crisis climate change social development environment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Schalk Willem Jacobus van der Merwe is as (white) South African as you can get. By name only. Born and raised in Bellville, Cape Town in the 70’s, he ironically credits Apartheid, the National Party and the N.G. Kerk as his greatest influences.
He believes you don’t have to be a struggling artist to be a good artist.
He describes his work as raw, honest, emotional and visceral, and without bullshit.
From a velvet dress-wearing musician, turned advertising mogul, turned full-time artist, (with enough Instagram followers to fill a rugby stadium), he shares insight into how his art has made it onto the global stage.