Bartenders & Artists #StirCreativity with Bombay Sapphire

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What happens when you decide to challenge 2 creative professionals who both create art but through different mediums? What happens when you get an artist and a bartender to collaborate and well, create art? You get #ArtTender!

For Bombay Sapphire’s Global #StirCreativity campaign in Africa, we decided to bring bartenders in the mix. Everyone loves a good drink, and going to bars is such an integral part of our social fabric, but we just don’t give them enough credit for being the ‘artists’ that they are. We decided to bring the best of both worlds together to exchange tools and mediums and truly #StirCreativity, not just with Art Supplies, but with one of the world’s best gin in the mix, too. Check out the whole series, discover some great artists and bartenders in South Africa and be inspired. Everyone has an artist hiding in them, and everyone can #StirCreativity

5 Artworks Created

5 Artist and 5 Bartenders together created 5 Incredible Creative Cocktails and 5 Collaborative Art Pieces

3.3 Million Views

Across 5 Episodes featuring recipes, art-collaborations a whole lot of creativity

140,000+ Conversations

South Africa's Creative Community joins the conversation by sharing art and helping their peers.

What happens when an artist is eased out of their comfort zone and challenged to flip the script on how they create? This is the test that Bombay Sapphire put to a group of South African creatives and bartenders for the Art-Tender Tool Swap Video Series, as part of the latest edition of the #StirCreativity campaign. #StirCreativity speaks to Bombay Sapphire’s innate character as a premium gin that brings out the creative in everyone – both complex and versatile – Bombay offers itself up as a blank canvas, literally inviting anyone to unleash their creativity in how they want to mix up a cocktail.

This first phase of the Art-Tender Tool Swap saw a group of young creatives – a visual artist, a fashion designer, and a commercial illustrator, engaging in an exchange with some of the country’s finest young bartenders, each tasked with using one another’s instruments to fashion an entirely new piece of art and a unique cocktail. The entire engagement was recorded into audiovisual vignettes – the Art-Tender Tool Swap video series, that will live online and on 10and5.

what people say

Francois Portier

Managing Director (SubSahara Africa) - Bacardi

Working with some of South Africa’s most exceptional bartenders and innovative artists on this campaign have been a dream collaboration. Their creative output – whether as the cocktail or the artwork has been by turn, thought-provoking, refreshing and inspiring – it is our pleasure to introduce it to South Africa

Michael Stevenson

Proprietor, Lucky Shaker - Durban

I really enjoyed the idea of how many common threads we can find in the two different styles of creativity. We got to collaborate on themes of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, and got to take the gin on a bit of journey together.

Kaylin Carollisen

Artist

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Russell Abrahams

Illustrator & Creative Director

Peter Lebese

Bartender And Beverage Consultant

Nkuli Khanilye

Bartender

Seth Pimentel

Artist

Bartenders & Artists #StirCreativity with Bombay Sapphire

5 Artworks Created

3.3 Million Views

140,000+ Conversations

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