Garden · Art gallery · Sculpture studio · Strand, Cape Town
One building and one garden in the middle of the Strand industrial area. Bronze in a quiet room, and soon the sculpture studio working on site. A printing studio under the same roof. A shelf of books, and a way of thinking that holds it all together: be kind.
One building and one garden, best described the way you actually meet it — in order, from the gate.
01Through the gate
An established garden in the middle of a concrete jungle. A wooden deck wraps the whole way around the building and walks you down into the green. It took years, and it is still growing.
There is no seating plan and nobody will show you to a table. Sit wherever you feel calm.
02Out of the garden
From the garden you step into the gallery: figurative bronze by the artist G, and paintings by Lori Schappe-Youens. The room is quiet, and it is meant to be.
The bronze collection →
03Inside the building
G's sculpture studio is moving into the building. Soon the work will be made here, on site: clay, wax and bronze, in progress.
If the door is open, you are welcome to look. Ask, and he will tell you what he is making and why.
Studio G — the books and the bronze →04Under the same roof
Erica's printing studio. Her own business, at home here in the building, and a friend of the house.
Bring what you want printed and talk it through with her.
highvibelab.co.za →05Along the wall
A shelf of books stands along the wall. Take one down, read it in the garden, put it back when you go.
Every one of them starts from the same question: why be kind? The answer is at whybekind.org, in plain words. The full working, every step of the logic, is at the420code.org.
Why be kind? →
Separate people, separate work, one house rule. Each has its own front door.
Studio G. The garden, the bronze, and the sculpture studio.
artist-g.global →Printing, by Erica. Her own studio, in the building.
highvibelab.co.za →Upstairs, with its own door.
therosinbar.com →The ethic everything here grows from, in plain words.
whybekind.org →The logic behind it, worked out in full.
the420code.org →The culture
Don’t be cruel. Be kind.
That is the whole house rule, and everyone under this roof lives by it: the gallery, the studio, the printing, the garden. It follows from the one thing you can know for certain — one record exists — and the whole of why is at whybekind.org, for anyone who asks.
Nobody in the garden has to ask. Here it only means this: the person next to you is the same awareness you are. Sit accordingly.
Start there. Everything at this address is an extension of that — the garden, the bronze, the prints, and the way you are met at the gate.
No booking, no dress code. The gate is open on the hours below.
| Garden & gallery | |
|---|---|
| Mon–Fri | 10:00–17:00 |
| Sat–Sun | Closed |
Coming from far? Call or WhatsApp first and we will make sure someone is here. Dogs welcome in the garden.
Turn in off Mynhardt Street at the bend, go along the front of the building, and round the back on the left. Look for the big mural of the man and the dog on the outside wall.
High Vibe Lab, High Regards Rosin Bar (18+) and Just Cannabis share the address. Dogs welcome.
Directions in Maps →