Arno Carstens has been a defining force in South Africa’s contemporary cultural landscape for over three decades, bridging the worlds of music and fine art.

Trained as a graphic designer with early ambitions in visual art, Arno spent thirteen years touring as frontman of Springbok Nude Girls and as a solo artist before returning to painting in 2007. He’s released eight solo albums and won multiple South African Music Awards, including Best Rock Album for his multiplatinum solo debut, Another Universe (2003).

Arno works primarily in oil on canvas. His paintings occupy a liminal space, where subject and viewer meet at the threshold between states, blooming and fading, grounded and transcendent, utterly familiar and completely strange. Vivid, figurative, and psychologically charged, they explore the human form, mythological themes, and bold colour with striking presence and emotional depth.

His debut solo exhibition was held at The Lovell Gallery in Woodstock in 2012. He has collaborated with South African artists Beezy Bailey and Barend de Wet, and his work spans oil on canvas and digital media. Career highlights include a 9 x 12 metre installation at NFT.NYC in Brooklyn, USA (2023), and Art Basel Miami, USA (2022). His work is held in private collections across South Africa and beyond.

His current body of work, Immortal Blooms, looks directly at flowers and finds in them that beauty is not fragile, that it survives.

Forged through fearless creative practice across disciplines, Arno Carstens continues to shape South Africa’s artistic heritage.

He lives and works in Cape Town.

Immortal Blooms

Immortal Blooms is Arno Carstens' most primal body of work. A collection that looks directly at flowers and finds in them that beauty is not fragile. That it erupts from burning rivers and gravesides and molten earth. That it presides over strange courts and ancient rituals. That it survives.

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Arno Carstens Gallery

Working in oil on canvas, Arno's figurative works are vivid, psychologically charged, and unmistakably his own.

Each original painting is a unique object, signed by the artist, and held in private collections across South Africa and beyond.

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Open Edition Prints

Open edition prints are hand signed giclée reproductions on archival canvas, faithful to the original in colour and detail, and blocked ready to hang.

Open edition means these prints remain available without a fixed limit, an accessible way to bring Arno's work into your home.

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