Guns & Rain Art - Johannesburg - South Africa

Guns & Rain works with contemporary visual artists from seven African countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and Nigeria. Most of our artists are young and emerging.

Founded online in 2014 to address the under-representation of African artists online and on the international art scene, we now have a permanent space in Parkhurst, Johannesburg. For those across the oceans, we offer prompt and informed advisory to help you find African art that you love, and we deliver it anywhere you like. We also assist art lovers with custom searches based on their interests and requirements, which goes beyond what’s just on the website.

Founder Julie Taylor is an anthropologist, communications specialist, and art entrepreneur, interested in the intersection of technology, creativity and the under-representation of African fine art in the global economy. She was born and raised in Zimbabwe and holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. She is author of Naming the Land, a book based on her doctoral research about San identity in northern Namibia, and is based in Johannesburg. Before Guns & Rain, Julie ran Google’s communications for Africa. She is halfway through a Masters in History of Art at Wits University in Johannesburg.