This year, the KZNSA Gallery Exhibition Sub‑Committee introduced something exciting: for the Members’ Award Show theme, we invited you to decide. The selected theme is Traces.

Traces reflects on what remains, fades, or persists over time. It invites artists to engage with memory, residue, and mark‑making, exploring presence and absence. Works may incorporate archival material, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, performance, or painting, addressing erosion, accumulation, and material memory.

The Members’ Award Show is our annual competition where members submit works responding to a chosen theme. Entries are reviewed by the Exhibition Sub‑Committee, and only those that engage meaningfully with the theme are exhibited. From these, a panel of external judges selects the top three works. The winning artists receive cash prizes, and the overall winner is awarded the opportunity to present a solo exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery the following year.

Submission dates: (At the KZNSA Gallery)

Friday, 10 April | 10:00 – 16:00
Saturday, 11 April | 10:00 – 15:00

No late submissions will be accepted.

The Members’ Award Show will open along with the Prize giving on the 17th of April 2026.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to our community for engaging with us and helping select this year’s Members’ Award Show theme. Your participation has been invaluable, and we look forward to seeing the creative responses that Traces will inspire. Together, we continue to shape a vibrant space for art and dialogue affirming Durban as a key player in national and global artistic discourse.

NB. Only paid-up members of the KZNSA may participate in the exhibition. Members may submit a single work and there are no restrictions on the medium. Works can be framed or unframed, with a maximum size limit of 150 x 150cm due to space constraints. If entries do not conform to these conditions they will be disqualified.

The KZNSA Annual Members’ Award Show prizes are made possible thanks to the generous support of the Key Foundation and Joan Emmanuel Trust.