The ABSA L’Atelier Awards have been running for the past 32 years. But up until three years ago, the competition only involved South African artists.
The first L’Atelier arts competition to be open to other African artists came in 2015. Since then, the contest has attracted original artworks by "creatives" from ten African countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as well as Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa and the Seychelles.
