Hope as a soft weapon (2025) – hand-pulled screen print by Ruschka du Toit

Ruschka du Toit (b. 1984) is known for her paintings of flowers, which emerge and dissolve in shifting, inky stains and figures; forming an ever-burgeoning, surfacing vitality. While blooms and acrylic inks pervade her practice, she prioritises curiosity and expression over subject and specific medium or genre. As such, she uses references to which she is naturally drawn – including moths, shells and night-time (often unearthing uncanny personal connections in retrospect) – and she works in loose, gestural brushstrokes, moving between figuration and abstraction, through both drawing and painting, in charcoal and ink, on paper and canvas; capturing fleeting moments and allowing shapes to emerge that resist fixed definition. Du Toit elaborates: “My process is a conversation between control and chance, structure and free flow. Using predominantly ink on paper and canvas, I move quickly, allowing intuition to guide each mark and colour. Holding both fragility and strength, my paintings mirror the ever-shifting experience of being human.” <READ MORE>

Du Toit has held two solo shows and participated in group exhibitions across South Africa, as well as at the Lobster Club Gallery in Los Angeles, Studio Veive in Amsterdam and at Unit1 Gallery in London, where she was selected as one of the Delphian Open Call Winners 2024.

• 7-Colour screen print on archival 100% cotton paper (250gsm BFK Rives)
• Paper size: 76×56 cm
• Limited edition of 30
• Numbered and signed by the artist
• Hand-printed in South Africa
• Please note, prints are sold unframed