Past exhibition, 2025
Ignite, an Emerging Artist Exhibition
Ignite brought together 14 emerging artists, students of the Art Photography Academy, showing original work in painting, photography and mixed media for the first time at Osner Gallery.
- Opened6 September 2025
- WhereOsner Gallery, Hout Bay
- Artists14 emerging artists
- WorkPainting, photography and mixed media
The artists
Meet the 14 artists of Ignite
Each artist brought their own vision and story to the exhibition. Their work is gathered in the brochure, with a statement from every artist.
Where they learnt
The Art Photography Academy
Where Martin Osner and Samantha Lee Osner teach fine art photography, painting and mixed media.
Visit the AcademyThe films
The conversations around Ignite
Ignite drew visitors who have shaped art photography. Both films sit alongside the exhibition and the work the students made.
Freeman Patterson on the DNA of art photography
Freeman Patterson, the internationally recognised photographic artist and author, came to see Ignite. Martin Osner interviewed him afterwards. Part one, 56 minutes.
Watch on YouTube
Fine art photography is about much more than what you see
The lecture Martin Osner was asked to present at the Photographic Society of Southern Africa congress at Cape Agulhas, where Freeman Patterson was the keynote speaker. It comes back to Ignite and the work the students made. 58 minutes.
Watch on YouTube
From the classroom to the gallery wall
From learning to exhibiting
Ignite gave students of the Art Photography Academy their first chance to hang their work in a professional gallery, meet collectors and see their art framed and lit on the wall.
Every artist in Ignite had followed Martin Osner’s programmes, some as far as master class level, and several joined the Art of Painting course and the Swellendam art retreat, both taught as workshops through the Art Photography Academy.
Thank you to every artist, collector and visitor who made it such a memorable celebration of new talent. See what is showing now on our exhibitions page.