Nicola Ash

04/05/2018

Moving Towards a Sustainable Marine Tourism Economy Every year, World Oceans Day provides a unique opportunity to honor, help protect, and conserve our world’s shared ocean. In dire need of all the support it can get, this is the ONE DAY we at The Fat Fish choose to acknowledge and throw our full ...

27/10/2017

The Fat Fish “Gin Off” at The George Gin Festival If you are lucky enough to have landed a ticket for the George Gin Festival, due to take place next weekend, then best you use this one to brush up on your bartending skills…As part of the day’s proceedings we will host what can only ... Read more

27/04/2017

To celebrate Freedom Day, we are giving away two funky Fat Fish t-shirts. Simply LIKE this message of hope to stand a chance of winning. The winners will be drawn tomorrow morning. Happy Freedom Day from everyone at The Fat Fish.

05/04/2017

The George opening of "Salvage".

Plett-based photographer and our very own Marketing Manager, Nicola Ash, opened her 'Salvage' exhibition at the George Museum on Friday evening. The photographs, which were first displayed at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, tell the story of Bulawayo's rail industry.

The exhibition can be viewed in the Sayers Hall during museum opening hours until Friday 7 April.

14/03/2017

Can't wait! Thank you to The George Museum for hosting.

02/02/2017

Never shy, the artist Anish Kapoor has spoken out on the extreme politics of US President Donald Trump with a Joseph Beuys inspired work.

31/10/2016

Promises, promises.

For the first time in what feels like weeks the clouds have encircled Bulawayo. A distant rumble of thunder, some far away lightning, a spit and a spot. Still it doesn't rain. But it will. Take heart it will.

28/10/2016

Zanzibar 2015...oh to be by the sea...

28/10/2016

Picasso on looking at art.

“Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”

24/10/2016

"The world is too big to be changed by an art object, but I think art, at least some art, has the ability to bring about awareness to our ignorance, but also alter our experience when engaging with it." - Simphiwe Ndzube

Multi-award winning artist Simphiwe Ndzube has just chalked himself up another prize, the prestigious Tollman Award for the Visual Arts.

10/10/2016

"Salvage" Photographic Exhibition
Walkabout with the artist, Nicola Ash, at the National Gallery in Bulawayo
Wednesday 10:00

An excerpt from the "Artist Statement" -

Bulawayo's history is a complex and beautiful story that can and should be viewed from multiple perspectives. This is not meant as a nostalgic trip down memory lane or a simple judgement of the present state of things but rather a passage in time, in a particular place, with a golden thread of hope emerging at the end. A thread that demands our collective memory and history be taken into consideration and that our individual worth and experiences be revalued and revived in order to turn them into the foresight we so desperately need to action change.

The title "Salvage" implies that hope is still alive -

"Hope is not the belief that everything was, is or will be fine. Hope is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act." - Rebecca Solnit

What we do matters. This isn't a story about a "place" it's the story of our lives and how we choose to live them.

07/10/2016

I am so pleased to announce that my exhibition "Salvage" at the National Gallery in Bulawayo has been extended for a few more weeks!

For those who may be interested I am going to do a walkabout of the exhibition this coming Wednesday morning, the 12th October, at 10:00. Would love to see you there! Please message me if you would like to join in the discussion.

A big thank you to all those who have already visited the gallery and especially to all the schools who have taken the time and afforded their students the same opportunity.