FREDDYSAM The artwork of Cape Town based street artist FREDDY SAM

[I AM BECAUSE WE ARE]
Inspired by Nelson Mandelas reference to the UBUNTO philosophy; “We can not be human all alone”

See all the walls at http://wall-therapy.com/

Quick rooftop in NY

At the Technical University of Istanbul
For http://globalpowershift.org/

Title:
‘We are the trees,our leaves our voices falling to the earth.”

/A WORD OF ART in partnership with our bestest friends GreenPop were just notified that we are one of the winners of the Design Indaba; Your Street Challange http://www.designindaba.com/projects/your-street
We will be using the money to transform the Greenpop Nursery on Mountain Rd Woodstock,with a mural,art installations and a public jungle jim/tree house .

This is me and Misha of Greenpop receiving the prize form the Mayor

Over the last 3 years i have hosted over 35 artist in residency from around the world with my /A WORD OF ART project.
The last few months have been some very special artists:

JANUARY-
GAIA (BALTIMORE)
JAZ (BUENOS AIRES)
KNOW HOPE (TEL AVIV)
All images from the project here http://www.acrylicwalls.tumblr.com

FEBRUARY-
REMED (MADRID)
http://remed.es/web/

MARCH-
AEC INTERNSIKAZKI (UKRAIN)
See his works here:
http://www.juxtapoz.com/street-art/new-walls-and-painting-by-aec-in-south-africa

NEXT UP-
APRIL
TROY LOVEGATES (CANADA)

This morning I was invited to be on the curatorial panel for the Cape Town World Design Capital 2014!
I am honored!
I promise to dedicate myself to doing a good job and only vote for cool stuff that actually benefits us as a society!!
Design for social change gets my vote!

The primary objectives of the Curatorial Panel will be to:
• to assess and review proposals
• develop a dynamic programme
• assist in making connections
• make recommendations to the WDC2014 CEO and Board
The WDC 2014 Curatorial Panel will play an important role in achieving the WDC 2014 Vision of building social inclusion, reconnecting the City in structure and in spirit, and repositioning Cape Town for the global knowledge economy.
The WDC 2014 Curatorial Panel will consist of 10 - 15 members, who will work in different work streams and will include individuals with the following expertise:
• Design practitioners and educators (from the full range of disciplines)
• Community development practitioners
• City/province planners and process managers
• Creative and innovative thinkers and doers
• Dreamers and visionaries
• Networkers and connectors
• Business leaders
• … and some pragmatists too

http://www.capetown2014.co.za/

During http://i-art-joburg.com/ which I curated with Andpeople we spent a day in Soweto painting in Mambo primary School.
Juxtapoz magazine came along and documented the day.
It made it into the December print issue.

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I posted the full feature here:
http://www.a-word-of-art.co.za/a-blog/2012/12/11/juxtapoz-magazine/

I was recently invited by the Maboneng township art experience to participate in their public art festival held on a street and inside homes in Gugulethu.
Turning homes into galleries.
http://www.maboneng.com/
I painted a mural with the words: “Peace,Love and Creativity”
I was asked by someone to take their photograph standing in front of it.
And then more and more people lined up to have theirs taken too.

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I printed out the images and came back the next day to display them in the street and give them to each individual at the end of the day.
(This action was inspired by spending time with Martha Cooper whom always likes to make a copy of the photograph for the person who she documented.)

It started to rain and so a community member took the photos to display inside his house.

I also painted a Springbok on a house with the help of my nose picking assistants.

Here they are painting their imaginary version of my artwork.

Below two images by Rowan Pybus.

I was invited by the Chris Cambell memorial football field in Khayalisha to rejuvenate their clubhouse.
I wanted to make sure i created something that the people who are exposed to it daily actually loved the artwork.
so..
I asked:What do you want to see?
First I asked the children at the neighboring school
We ran a workshop with them and let them design the mural asking ‘What do you want to see?)


Then we took these artworks and showed them to the neighboring community ,explaining that this is what the children want to see and then asking them the same question:What do you want to see?

I took all the suggestions and created a design inspired by the community.
Heres a what the clubhouse looked like before:

And after..

I was selected as part of a list of “11 guerrilla street art greats” on National Geographic,along with Banksy JR Artist Space Invader and Know Hope,,I really don’t think i deserve this at all but its motivating to know that Im being noticed.

Daniel Raven-Ellison who created the listing said: ‘It’s in my nature to enjoy art that amplifies a point of view, allowing it to be “heard” above the din of a loud and busy city.’
See the full listing here:
http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/20/11-guerrilla-street-art-greats/

I just spent the last week with my good friend and great painter Christiaan Conraadie in Bonnievale painting 8 walls for a social uplift-ment project organized by the local community.
Check more of Cristiaan’s work here:
http://www.christiaanconradie.com/

It was great to get out of CT and spend so much time painting again.

Check #BonnievalePaintingProject on instagram or twitter for more pics.