Worldart | Candyfloss Paradise

WORLDART is pleased to announce JP Meyer’s first solo exhibition at WORLDART, titled Candyfloss Paradise. The exhibition will open on Thursday 4 September and run until 27 September 2025 at WORLDART’s Cape Town gallery.

Known for his bold visual language, Meyer’s paintings fuse contemporary culture, ancient mythologies and the playful energy of comic strips and colouring books. His work thrives in the tension between the serious and the absurd, the archetypal and the everyday, producing paintings that resist fixed narratives and instead invite the viewer to discover multiple meanings.

Describing his new body of work, Meyer explains:

“Candyfloss Paradise is my visual playlist for a world teetering between nostalgia and absurdity. It plays with pop icons, backyard mythology, childhood bric-a-brac and the strange theatre of modern masculinity. I am less interested in realism than resonance; in other words how colour can trigger a memory and how camp and kitsch can crack open an archetype. This exhibition is my love letter to paradox, colour and play.”

Meyer, who lives and works in Porterville, has exhibited widely in South Africa and abroad. His paintings are held in major collections including Sasol, Rand Merchant Bank, Hollards, Didata, Nando’s UK, and McMillan Publishing.

With Candyfloss Paradise, Meyer continues his exploration of imagery that blurs the lines between personal memory, collective myth, and cultural parody—delivering paintings that are as immediate as they are thought-provoking.

This show runs from 4-27 September 2025.