Born in Ain Beida, Algeria in 1947, Rachid Koraïchi now lives and works in Paris, France. His artistic training includes diplomas from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Algeria, the Superior National School of the Arts, the National School of Decorative Arts, and the School of Urban Studies in Paris. Koraïchi works with many media, including ceramics, textiles, poetry, calligraphy, and paint. Born to a Sufi family in Ain Beida, Algeria, his work is intimately informed by the numerology, signs and ethos of Sufi mysticism. He was recently included in the international touring exhibition 'Short Century', and in the 47th and 49th Venice Biennale. Part of his installation, 'Path of Roses', comprising embroidered silk textiles, steel sculptures, roses and Turkish ceramics was recently aquired by the British Museum. Concerned with the Islamic concept of Safar (travel and transcendence), the installation traces the journey of medieval Muslim traveller Jalal Al Din Al Rumi across the Mediterranean to meet the Sufi mystic and poet Ibn El Arabi. While his aesthetics are deeply rooted in his multicultural Algerian heritage, Koraïchi is a truly cosmopolitan artist who speaks to a global audience. He has participated in many international exhibitions and his work is included in several major private and public collections worldwide.

EL ANATSUI Born in 1944, in the Ewe-speaking area of Ghana, El Anatsui, is today recognised as one of the foremost contemporary artists of his generation. Taking the broad spectrum of indigenous African cultures as an extended canvas, his central themes concern the erosion of these inherited traditions by powerful external forces and the manner of their survival and transmission into the present. His deftly-organised and sophisticated work represents an original synthesis of the many diverse histories of African art with more modern influences picked out from the prevailing paradigm of contemporary western art.

Sandile Zulu was born in 1962, in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and now lives and works in Johannesburg. Since graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1990Õs he has exhibited extensively, locally as well as in the United States, Germany, France, Sweden, Scotland and the Seychelles. He has received many international awards and is represented in public, corporate and private collections around the world, including the South African National Gallery. Sandile Zulu: Planetary Cycle is presented in association with Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.

KENJI YOSHIDA Yoshida has had numerous solo exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States and is represented in many prestigious collections around the world.

ROSELLA NAMOK Born in 1979, Rosella lives and works in one of the most remote and inaccessible areas of Australia. A member of the Ungkum Aboriginal group, and the Lockhart River Art Gang, Namok's oeuvre centres on the major theme of 'Kaapay and Kuyan', the two halves of society for the Ungkum people. 'Everything is divided two ways. . . people, lands, story places, plants and animals. . . they belong one way or other way. . . it's important you know which way.' Namok paints with her fingers, a method derived from the sand drawing style taught to her by her grandmother. Painting for a broad audience, Namok offers these motifs as an introduction to the complexities and richness of her culture.