Among the Lilies

Among the Lilies We're a community that connects with other exceptional women like ourselves. But curiosity didn't kill these cats. Why? This community of women is for us, by us.

A community that makes a difference for women and allows us to experience an incredible life of freedom & abundance. A pride of women were planted in different corners of Johannesburg, they had the privilege of occupying time in the 21st century. Naturally, they found themselves on a quest for self-discovery, and also felt the need to embark on this search with a community of women through cycling

and savouring the pleasantries the city has to offer. As fortune would have it, we met at coffee shops and Thursday evening cycle rides around the city and realised that we were all on the same communal journey. We had our eureka moments when to our surprise; fixies not only helped us glide to destinations but little to homes, housed in intelligent, creative and electric women who gently tend to your scars after falls and give pep talks bottled in humor and empathy when you felt like you couldn’t make it up crazy hills that put your endurance to the test. The circle of discovery was small and intimate as it was hard to reach out to other women because their strangeness meant they were stereotyped as cats. So over Ethiopian coffee and crazy Joburg weather, we dreamed of creating a group that would allow other women, who are business owners, entrepreneurs, creatives, musicians --oh you name it-- to meet other like-minded humans and join forces, share gems, inspire and fill up adventure jars with. Because Joburg needs more communities of remarkable women, doing what they love and supporting each other. The aim is to create and cultivate fertile ground for women to plant their self-expression, water self-love, collaborate with like-minded lilies and take the dust off all the ideas and dreams they had safely tucked away.

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20/05/2023

Lilies of our garden

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It wouldn’t have been any more magical without the selected soundscapes brought to us by the amazing selectors. Rain and...
10/05/2023

It wouldn’t have been any more magical without the selected soundscapes brought to us by the amazing selectors. Rain and sunshine, we moved with the groove 🌷🫶🏾

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It wouldn’t have been any more magical without the selected soundscapes brought to us by the amazing selectors. Rain or ...
10/05/2023

It wouldn’t have been any more magical without the selected soundscapes brought to us by the amazing selectors. Rain or sunshine, we moved with the groove 🌷🫶🏾

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Our women-run economy garden was an absolute delight! All these different and intentional brands each brought something ...
10/05/2023

Our women-run economy garden was an absolute delight! All these different and intentional brands each brought something special of their own that is none like the other. We’re absolutely grateful to have had the beautiful lilies bloom with us 🌷 and thank you for sponsoring the magical trade ☺️

Meet one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷 Tshegofatso Tlatsi (b. 1999), is a visual artist from Johannesburg who specializes ...
05/05/2023

Meet one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷

Tshegofatso Tlatsi (b. 1999), is a visual artist from Johannesburg who specializes in drawing and painting using mainly ink, charcoal, chalk and acrylic on raw canvas. Her work is mainly centered around her personal experiences as a black female existing. She uses her work to explore themes related to chaos, death, sexuality and mental health. In 2022, Tlatsi received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg and currently resides in Roodepoort.

Her works will be a part of the ‘Rites of Passage’ exhibition & can be purchased this Sunday 7 May 2023.

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Meet one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷 Keabetswe Seema (1999) is a visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, Sout...
05/05/2023

Meet one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷

Keabetswe Seema (1999) is a visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently busy with her fourth year of a BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, Seema narrates the politics of the body and identity through means of culture, spirituality, and personal reflection. Seema has been exposed to various forms of expression whether printmaking, photography, collage, painting or mixed media works. Seema uses her agency and awareness to disrupt black female identity as neither a social construction or a self-construction.

A dominant theme in Seema’s body of work involves selfhood and intersectionality from the lens of fragmented subjectivity. She investigates the impact of societal influences coming out of the post-modern society of South Africa. Seema considers fragmentation as an avenue to represent unstable , fractured, selfhood. The surgical practice of cutting, tearing and moving of photographs allow for her agency and bodily experience to construct nuanced understandings of black femininity and Afro-futurism. Curious about decontextualising images of her body, chosen subjects and images whether her grandmother, mother, friends, online sources or newspapers, she pulls viewers into a more meaningful encounter with the work.

She continues to harness her past and present experiences of living by taking disparate dissecting information and subjects as a means to show the multiplicity that lives in each and every one of them. Seema presents a political self-consciousness and artistic sensibility in her work by looking at both historical and contemporary feminine identity and intersects its representation at an axis of mixed media collage to provide it with new meaning.

Her works will be a part of the ‘Rites of Passage’ exhibition & can be purchased this Sunday 7 May 2023.

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Meet one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷 Ntokozo Maseko is a South African photographer, born in Johannesburg,South Africa i...
04/05/2023

Meet one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷

Ntokozo Maseko is a South African photographer, born in Johannesburg,South Africa in 1999. She studied at the Market Photo Workshop, where she completed her Foundation Course in Photography in 2018. Her work looks more into the idea of home and belonging. She shares her living experiences in her photographs. She has exhibited her work at Eyethu Life Center, Soweto, Johannesburg in 2018 as part of an all women group exhibition, was part of the Gender Based Violence and Sexuality Project in 2019 at the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg and was also part of The Portrait Show in 2020 at Through The Lens Collective in Johannesburg. She also forms part of a duo named Yithi Ubuciko, a collective aimed at elevating the artist and the art.

Her works will be a part of the ‘Rites of Passage’ exhibition & can be purchased this Sunday 7 May 2023.

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Meet , one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷 Lusanda Mdluli is a photographer from Vosloorus, Johannesburg. Her photography jo...
04/05/2023

Meet , one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷

Lusanda Mdluli is a photographer from Vosloorus, Johannesburg. Her photography journey started in 2020 when she started exploring cell phone photography. She then went to study the Foundation course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown Johannesburg, Mdluli completed the Mid- Level Course at Through The Lens Collective. Her work was part of a group Exhibitions like; Shutterland by Lizamore & Associates and Everything Everyone Always, a womens show by Through The Lens Collective. 

“My work deals with my own relationship with my body but also perceptions and notions around the female body, using myself as the subject to grapple with issues of representation. The monochrome feel is a very deliberate way of centralizing form. My process includes the layering of images, and a digital double exposure method that visually represents the complicated web of emotions that live between me and my vessel. I employ distortion as a way to suggest this intricate world I wish to speak to and of.”

Her works will be a part of the ‘Rites of Passage’ exhibition & can be purchased this Sunday 7 May 2023.

Get your tickets.


Meet , one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷 Lusanda Mdluli is a photographer from Vosloorus, Johannesburg. Her photography jo...
04/05/2023

Meet , one of our exhibiting lilies 🌷

Lusanda Mdluli is a photographer from Vosloorus, Johannesburg. Her photography journey started in 2020 when she started exploring cell phone photography. She then went to study the Foundation course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown Johannesburg, Mdluli completed the Mid- Level Course at Through The Lens Collective. Her work was part of a group Exhibitions like; Shutterland by Lizamore & Associates and Everything Everyone Always, a womens show by Through The Lens Collective. 

“My work deals with my own relationship with my body but also perceptions and notions around the female body, using myself as the subject to grapple with issues of representation. The monochrome feel is a very deliberate way of centralizing form. My process includes the layering of images, and a digital double exposure method that visually represents the complicated web of emotions that live between me and my vessel. I employ distortion as a way to suggest this intricate world I wish to speak to and of.”

The exhibition opens at 12pm Sunday, 7 May 2023.

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