Volume One · Episode 12 · A Conversation

Michael Selekane

Fine Artist · Johannesburg, South Africa

Recorded 12 April 2026

Michael Selekane seated in his studio in a black shirt and beret, framed between a vivid Marabi-era train painting on one side and a Milk & Honey road-sign canvas on the other
Photographed in the studio · April 2026
The Conversation

In Three Parts

Paintings, Prints & Practice

In the Studio

Courtesy of the artist.

Michael Selekane's studio — a wall of oil paintings including a Marabi train scene and a Milk & Honey road-sign work, with the studio table and window on the left
Painting by Michael Selekane — a heavily textured oil painting of two women at a kitchen table, one washing corn in a bowl, in warm earth tones
A studio corner filled with Michael Selekane's ink drawings and prints, layered across the wall in wax-paper sleeves, beside a small round table with a typewriter
Michael Selekane silhouetted against studio windows, orange-painted glass panels glowing behind him, chairs and paint supplies filling the room
A view through the studio window onto a Johannesburg apartment block with laundry hanging from balconies
A close-up of Michael Selekane's paint materials — a tray of paint-crusted bottle caps and glass bottles on a colour-splattered surface
The Interview Record

Filed in the Archive

Michael Selekane's interview title card with handwritten record and polaroids
Volume One · Episode 12 · Filed 12 April 2026
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