– Laurie Pressman, Vice President, Pantone Color Institute
AITY Gallery is proud to present Cloud Dancer, an upcoming group exhibition curated by Björn Thomas.
Cloud Dancer draws its point of departure from the Pantone hue – a colour poised somewhere between the sky and earth’s atmosphere. For this group exhibition artists approach the colour without constraint, leaning into its ambiguity.
Sitting between abstraction and figuration, it is neither fixed nor absolute: a conceptual point, a tonal prompt that provides a point from which artists expand.
The shade operates as a shared reference point, yet each interpretation drifts into its own register – speculative, intimate, and atmospheric. Loose and unrestrictive, the exhibition resists rigidity, foregrounding interpretation: how a colour can hold contradiction, carry a multitude of narratives or dissolve gestures.
Cloud Dancer therefore transforms, becoming less a fixed swatch and more an extended field of possibility expanding beyond its namesake.
Showing at AITY Gallery at The Old Biscuit Mill, 375 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town.
– Zada Hanmer
AITY Gallery is proud to showcase Live, Love, Lobster, Kyle Jardine’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on show in Franschhoek until 30th March 2026.
In thick impasto and unapologetically bold colour, Jardine stages scenes of communal abundance: crowded tables, patterned tiles, lush florals, clasped hands, and theatrical interiors that blur the real and the imagined. Rooted in the spirit of the ‘kiki’ — a gathering forged as safe space — the exhibition explores queer identity, joy, and the architecture of belonging. Heavy acrylic layers and sculptural relief lend the works physical weight, reinforcing themes of strength and support within community.
Live, Love, Lobster is an immersive meditation on togetherness, nostalgia, and the fantasy of shared domestic ritual.
View the full catalogue below.
