The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture is a partnership between NIROX Foundation and the Claire & Edoardo Villa Will Trust. As an artist residency and sculpture park, NIROX provides artists working at the Centre with full board and lodging, as well as access to staff, peripheral programming, and their broader facilities. NIROX’s residency programme accommodates up to three practitioners at a time, from different fields and walks of life, enabling the cross-pollination of ideas which extends to visiting curators, lecturers, collectors, gallerists, and specialists unique to the region’s cultural and scientific ecosystem. The Villa Will Trust in turn provides space and resources that enable artists to develop their practice through the research, production, and exhibition of their work. In return, resident artists are expected to facilitate and participate in public programmes such as talks or workshops with students or other practising artists geared towards the exchange of knowledge and the study of art, and sculpture in particular.
RECENT
Elize Vossgätter
During her residency, Elize Vossgätter quietly advanced a body of work rooted in her continued exploration of wax, a material shared by bees, plants, humans and petroleum. In her hands, wax becomes a threshold: between the organic and synthetic, the sculptural and the painterly, the fragile and the enduring. Her practice unfolds within the tensions of transformation and precarity, drawing from the climate crisis not as subject matter but as atmosphere. Through this mutable medium, she navigates humanity’s contradictory impulses, to nurture and to destroy, while reflecting on the hybrid ecosystems we inhabit and shape. Her residency culminated in an exhibition titled systemic, which you can learn more about here.
Elize Vossgätter
Diana Vives
Douglas Gimberg
Sophia van Wyk
Dada Khanyisa
Xwalacktun
Abdus Salaam
Sean Blem
Serge Alain Nitegeka
Gabriele Jacobs
Stefanie Koemeda
Farieda Nazier
Jeremy Wafer
Richard John Forbes
Inga Somdyala
Walter Oltmann
Catherine Ash
Driaan Claassen
Lawrence Lemaoana
Mary Sibande
Noria Mabasa
Ben Tuge
Richard Chauke
Amorous Maswanganyi
Collen Maswanganyi
Workshop
Resident artists are able to make use of the Villa-Legodi Centre’ for Sculpture’s workshop, both to create their own work and facilitate workshops for students.
The workshop is equipped with a wide range of tools, which can be viewed by clicking the drop-down on the right. Artists and students wishing to use the Workshop, be it for a day or as part of their residency, must complete a form detailing their name, which tools they would like to use, and what they would like to use them for. The form can be downloaded here and submitted along with your application here. Should you require any tools that are not listed, please let us know. We intend to learn and expand the Workshop based on your feedback.
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Table saw
Band saw
Horizontal bandsaw
Mitre saw
Planer thicknesser
Drill press
Dust extraction
Belt sander
Compressor
Mig welder
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Orbital sander (150mm)
Finger sander (6–30mm)
Drill (13mm chuck)
Dust extraction
Circular saw (165–235mm)
delta sander
Bench grinder
Arc welder (200A)
Plasma cutter
grinder (115mm)
grinder (230mm)
Router (1/4 and 1/2)
Dremel -
Charger
Batteries
Drill (13mm)
Drill
Recipracationg saw
Orbital sander (125mm)
Jig saw
Planer
Blower
Vacuum
Multi-tool
Die grinder
Grinder
Light -
Nail gun
Air blower
Spray gun
Staple gun
Water oil trap
Quick connect hose -
Hammer
Chisel set
Screw driver set
Socket set
spanner set
File set
rasp set
hand planes
pliers
Tin snips
side cutters
vice grip
long nose
shifting spanner
Hand Saw
Hack saw -
G clamp (75mm)
G clamp (100mm)
G clamp (200mm)
F clamp (260mm)
F Clamp (600mm)
T bar (1200mm)
Pipe clamp
3/4 Galv Pide
Vices -
Tape measure
Mitre square
Bevel gauge
Pocket rule
Vernier calper
Spirit level -
Drill bits
Masonry bits
125mm sanding
150mm sanding
Table saw blades
Band saw blades
Metal band saw blades
Circular saw blades
Multitool blades
Die grinder bits
Grinder discs
Argon Shield H5 gas
Argon gas
Mig wire
Tig electrodes
Tig filler rod -
Ear muffs
Goggles
Welding helmet
Dust mask
Gloves -
Wood bench (2400 x 610mm)
Metal bench (2500 x 1000mm)
Small bench (1200 x 800mm)
Tressels x 3