Contemporary Artist: Kelly Wainwright

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All details on The Surf Doccie Event + Raffle are here!:

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FREE ENTRY – limited to 250 people
Doors open 6:30pm | First 50 get a free beer

⚡ Films start: 8:00pm
World Premiere: SURPRISE 🌊
Epic cinematography + soundtrack
Pro-surfer Surprise Maphumulo in attendance

Burgers & beer at Jack Black Taproom
🎟 Raffle (with Next-Level prizes!) supporting local grom Ezra Wainwright —
heading to a semester of surf academy in Costa Rica & Portugal

⚡ Raffle draw: 9:00pm
EPPELSAUCE on the decks after

📍 10 Brigid Rd, Diep River
Kitchen/bar closes 10:30pm | Event ends 11:00pm

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Check out Kelly’s next MoFlo retreat in Baja, Mexico at the gorgeous El Campo! Early bird ends March 1!

Retreat Sign up Here!

Kelly Wainwright is a multidisciplinary artist, movement facilitator, writer, scribbler, and creative producer working across painting, installation, photography, text — and her signature movement practice, MoFlo (Movement + Floorwork).

Her practice spans vivid abstraction and large-scale, immersive experiences — from PB&J sculptures to women bathing in milk beneath wide skies. Whether through paint, fabric, sound, movement, scribbles, or ritual, her work explores how we connect, and come alive.

It’s all about bringing people back into their bodies — through play, color, sensory immersion, words, bones, gravity, throw, flop, and float — helping us remember the flavor, the saltiness, the smells, the pulse of being alive. Reinhabiting our own skin again — fully, messily, beautifully. Her process is tactile and embodied — a dance between the absurd and the intimate. “

“In my painting practice, I embrace raw canvas, unprimed surfaces, and unvarnished expression. I resonate deeply with fearless mark-makers like Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Energy, honesty, and texture are playfully explored, and imperfection is celebrated. I’m a scribbler. I work with color, movement, and whatever wants to come through my hands. Scribblers don’t tend to explain, polish, or apologize. They leave traces.”

Based in Cape Town and working globally, Kelly is currently developing her current culmination of works she calls PIMPP —
Paintings, Installation, MoFlo, Podcast, Poetry
Not categories. Just channels.

Explore the CURRENT WORKS tab (above) to peruse All of it!

Her podcast — THE WAY WE LIVE, & book of poetic musings —b. Wilder, launch very shortly!

Kelly is teaching MoFlo (movement & floorwork) classes every Friday at the Kalk Bay Community Center from 10:30-11:30. Classes start again on January 23, after the holidays. Don’t have FOMO! Go check it out after a dip in the tidal pool & a sauna — all in the same location!

Kelly collaborated with her son,Ezra Wainwright (15), on the Kiosk of Curiosity public art project, designing a bubble-gum pink fantasy streetscape of downtown Cape Town called THINK PINK using 3D printing. Curated by Mission for Inner City Cape Town. Now on view downtown Cape Town at St. Georges Mall.