Welcome to the Sembach Collection of African Art.

The Sembach is physically located on South Africa’s magnificent Cape coast, with the Studio in St. Francis Bay, a few miles west of Port Elizabeth, and the Art Gallery in Hout Bay, just around Table Mountain from Cape Town. Relatively remote from the centre of the collector’s world but now accessible to all through technology.

The Art Gallery, founded in 1995, specialises in contemporary art drawn from the Southern Africa region, in particular the artistic community of the Western Cape, many members of which are of international repute. The gallery displays a comprehensive range of art, from paintings in many different media to stone and bronze sculpture and ceramics, all distinctly African.

The Studio was established in 2003 and concentrates on photography and African artifacts of all genres, collected from the entire sub-Saharan region, from Mali and Ghana to Zimbabwe and South Africa. The artifacts are of all natural materials and range from masks and utensils to objects d’art and jewellery, both antique and modern. African artifacts are unique in representing the various traditions and cultures of Africa, both symbolically and spiritually.

The Studio also presents a collection of excellent photographic prints, many being the highly noted work of Jack White as one of the principals of Sembach Galleries: much of that work records recent African history.

The online gallery presents the art collector with a comprehensive display of all pieces currently available, as far as practically possible. When the collector is searching for a particular piece not displayed in the onsite gallery, Sembach Galleries welcomes enquiries and promises to provide the collector with a meaningful response in due course.