Four decades ago, a group of six first-year art students from Rhodes University decided that they would get together to exhibit in 10 years’ time. One of these former students, Sharlé Matthews, recalls a moment in the early ’80s, “We were munching huge doughnuts and grabbing a quick coffee […], before getting back to our drawings” and so “the promise to exhibit together was made.” Life paths diverged and meandered, as they do, and fortune would not see the group coming together after those initial ten years.

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