New art additions Entangled Head Boxing Hare	Seen on the art scene Art@First’s latest Pop up art exhibition	A precinct to be proud of RMBers and visitors to the RMB campus

Art of business The thinking behind the RMB art collection	Art of learning Seat of Learning at the RMB Academy	Art of recycling Creating art from trash: Such initiative
Art of thinking The thinking behind the RMB art collection	Art of performance William Kentridge's The Magic Flute	Art of curating Building, displaying and maintaining the RMB art collection
Appetite for art Canteen Art Project	Art of collaboration Differently. Think.

Barker, Wayne Cahill	Buthelezi, Mbongeni Richman	Mashile, Colbert	Pfaff, Uwe	Smith, Richard John
Batha, Gerhard Harald	Catherine, Norman	Menck, Clare	Preller, Karin	Taylor, Angus
Battiss, Walter Whall	Hibbert, Erika	Moore, John Mark	Rakgoathe, Dan	Thoba, Alfred
Bell, Deborah Margaret	Hlungwani, Phillemon	Mthethwa, Zwelethu	Redelinghuys, Albert	Verster, Andrew
Bengu, Bongi	Hodgins, Robert Griffiths	Nhlengethwa, Sam	Schadeberg, Jürgen	Villa, Edoardo
Bester, Willie	Kentridge, William	Oberholzer, Obie	Sibiya, Lucky
Bonney, Peter John	Kramer, John	Oltmann, Walter	Sieberhagen, Jaco
Boshoff, Willem Hendrik Adriaan	Mahlangu, Speelman	Pemba, Milwa Mnyaluza George	Smit, Lionel

Paul Harris at the entrance to his Ellerman House Contemporary Gallery, which is dominated by Angus Taylor’s giant slate sculpture HIER		Word portrait of Paul Harris, specially commissioned from Jonathan Wolberg by RMB, pigment print on archival paper, edition 7/10, 104 x 73cm, 2010

RMB Founders and art lovers: GT Ferreira, Paul Harris and Laurie Dippenaar

Art, culture and creativity have been the cement that binds together, not only hearts and souls, but entire societies and nations. While art and culture can illuminate our inner lives and enrich our emotional world, it has a wider, more measurable impact on our economy, health and wellbeing, society and education. Today, leaders in the world of commerce and industry continue to rank among the world’s most prolific art collectors and patrons of the arts in general. Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is no different.

When GT Ferreira, Paul Harris and Laurie Dippenaar opened RMB’s doors in 1977, they founded the business on the foundation of Traditional values. Innovative ideas. For them, good business was also about investing in the community and being responsible corporate citizens – resulting in the arts becoming a focus area of their greater Corporate Social Investment (CSI) programme. This has been manifested in the work of the RMB Fund, which has enabled numerous, diverse projects involving music, dance, heritage, mathematics education, and environmental and conservation initiatives.

From the outset, the three founders agreed that the focus of RMB’s investment into the arts would not be on acquiring expensive works of art by established masters, but rather on supporting the growth of the creative economy through young South African talent. RMB's Corporate Art Collection was therefore not built to have a definite monetary value, but rather one that would be true to their visionary approach — one that would have relevance and meaning.

Today RMB’s Corporate Art Collection features an eclectic mix of over 1 700 art works and sculptures, ranging from internationally acclaimed works by artists such as William Kentridge, to plentiful local, youthful expressions by emerging artists. These art works adorn the board rooms and meeting rooms in all RMB buildings for staff and visitors to enjoy and appreciate.