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

Art today is surrounded by explanation and contextualisation – it is 'curated'.

From the outset Rudolf Gouws was the appropriate custodian of RMB's art collection. While he is first and foremost an economist, his passion for art is boldly expressed through both his fine collection at home and the pieces he has personally created. He always sought the help of art experts who could be entrusted with the purchasing, placing, cataloguing and maintenance of the bank’s art.

Over the years, this role has been filled by two professional art curators: Dr Leoni Schmidt, from 1989 to 1994, and Teresa Lizamore, who, after assisting Dr Schmidt, took over the curating duties on her own in 1994 and continues in this capacity to the present day. 

Much has changed since the first pieces were bought. RMB’s robust growth and expansion into new buildings with appealing art space, sustained an acquisition surge for many years. The focus shifted from building the Collection, to refining, maintaining, placing and protecting it, often rearranging entire floors at a time – always with the benefit of RMB staff in mind.

Teresa Lizamore (left), curator of the RMB Art Collection, and Carolynne Waterhouse (right) of Corporate Marketing in front of Lionel Smit’s painting, Residue Series