Atang Tshikare is a Cape Town-based multidisciplinary artist. In 2024 the artist visited Wanås Konst, following the invitation of curator Milena Høgsberg – who met Tshikare while in residence at NIROX in 2023 – to create his first, largescale public sculpture, Puruma (2025). As described by Høgsberg, “Tshikare works sculpturally with materials such as bronze, ceramics and wood, and invites the viewer into a tactile and imaginative world. The stories that shape his art often draw from personal dreams and cultural myths, where flora, fauna, and fictional creatures are allowed to coexist.”

The sculpture created at Wanås took the form of a largescale lion with a protea for a head, floating on a nest on one of Wanås’s lakes. Returning now for a residency at the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture, Tshikare spent his time planning a second public work, this time for a site within one of the caves in the Cradle of Humankind, establishing a dialogue between these two sites. At the same time, Tshikare led a workshop with students from a nearby school and created twelve smaller styrofoam-based works, which he took back to his studio in Cape Town to prepare for exhibition.