Mario Pissarra

b. Durban, 1959; lives in Inchanga, KwaZulu-Natal.

Pissarra works principally as a visual arts researcher, writer and editor. His art practice includes conceptually oriented works in various media that engage themes such as socialisation and resistance, alongside a body of mostly painterly works that demonstrate an interest in colour and movement.

Education

2019: PhD, Sociology, University of Cape Town (UCT). Thesis title – Locating Malangatana: Decolonisation, aesthetics and the roles of an artist in a changing society.
2000: Advanced Diploma for Educators of Adults, University of the Western Cape.
1991: B.A History of Art Honours, UCT.
1981: B.A. Fine Arts, UCT (graduated with distinction).
1977: Matriculated, Thomas More School, Kloof, Kwa-Zulu Natal (with distinction for Art).

Educational Affiliations

2023-present: Honorary Research Associate, Faculty of Arts and Design, Durban University of Technology.
2020-22: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Visual Arts, University of Stellenbosch.
2006-11: Honorary Research Associate, Department of Historical Studies, UCT.

Employment

2005- present: Founder and project director, Africa South Art Initiative (https://asai.co.za)
2022-23: Guest lecturer, Art History III, Centre for Visual Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) (“Re/writing South African Art History”).
2006: Producer, CAPE Africa Platform, Cape Town.
2005: Contract lecturer, History of Art II, UCT (“Sacred Art in Africa”).
2004-05: Contract lecturer, History of Art II, University of Stellenbosch (“Modern and Contemporary African Art”).
2003-05: Freelance writer, Cape Town.
1999-02: Various part-time and freelance roles, London: Freelance writer; Assistant researcher and project manager, Africa Centre; Sales assistant and blurb-writer, Africa Book Centre; Itinerant book and CD trader, various markets and festivals
1993-99: Director (1996-99); Education Convenor (1994-96); Visual Arts & Crafts Project coordinator (1993-94). Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1992: Contract lecturer, History of Art III, UCT (“Political caricature and cartoons”).
1991-92: General secretary, Cultural Workers Congress, Cape Town.
1987-92: Club DJ, Cape Town (T-Zers, Indaba Project, The Base).
1987-90: Part-time slide custodian and lecturer, Dept. of History of Art, UCT (taught course on “African Art”).
1985-86: Textile artist and market trader, Johannesburg.
1982-83: Resident club DJ, DV8, Johannesburg.
1979-81: Club DJ, Cape Town (Ellingtons, 1886 and Scratch).

Group Exhibitions

2023: S T O N E D: Remembering the 80s, curated by Chery Traub Adler, AVA, Cape Town.
2015: Thupelo Cape Town Trust Exhibition. Provenance Auction House, Cape Town
2007: africa south. AVA, Cape Town
2007: ReCenter. Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha
2007: Arts of Revolution. Saba Artistic & Cultural Institute, Tehran
1997: Group exhibition. City Hall, Cape Town [launch of the Cape Town City Council’s Arts & Culture Policy] 1990-93: Visual Arts Group exhibitions at Mayibuye Centre, UWC; Uluntu Centre, Guguletu (x 3); SA Association of Arts, Cape Town; Centre for African Studies, UCT (x 3); Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Manenberg Peoples Centre; Community Arts Project
1988: Arts and Militarism. Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
1986: [with Vheke Kruger] Dandy Lion. Gallant House, President St, Johannesburg
1986: Group exhibition. Gallant House, Johannesburg
1983: [with Anthony Chase] East Side Steppers. Installations at Pyramid; Dancetaria; Strictly Roots; & Overground nightclubs, New York
1980: (with Oliver Schmitz) Art Pop Militants Watershed Gallery, Cape Town.

Exhibitions Curated

2017: Beyond Binaries. ICC, Durban; Durban Art Gallery; and KZNSA Gallery (Co-curator, with Russel Hlongwane and Robin Moodley)
2015: In Print/ In Focus. Michaelis Art Galleries, UCT.
2013-14: Against the Grain: Makeleni, Thyssen, Mbanya, Mafenuka and Kiti, sculptors from the Cape. Iziko SA National Gallery; and Sanlam Art Gallery, Belville.
2007: africa south. AVA, Cape Town.
2007: ReCenter. Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha.
2004-05: Botaki (series)
1990-93: Visual Arts Group exhibitions. Community Arts Project; Mayibuye Centre, UWC; Uluntu Centre, Guguletu (x 3); SA Association of Arts, Cape Town; Centre for African Studies, UCT (x 3); Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Manenberg Peoples Centre (Co-curator/organizer)
1988: Arts and Militarism. Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. (Co-curator/organizer for Gardens Youth Congress)

Publications (Writer)

2024: "Finding a Way: Thami Jali’s ‘Mphendla Ndlela’ at the KZNSA Gallery”, ArtThrob, 15 March, https://artthrob.co.za/2024/03/15/finding-a-way-thami-jalis-mphendla-ndlela-at-kznsa-gallery/
2024: (with Taryn Jade Benadé) ASAI print access workshops: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, ASAI, https://asai.co.za/publication/asai-print-access-workshops/
2022: “Critical biography: Sam J. Ntiro,” in African Modernism in America, edited by Perrin Lathrop (American Federation of Arts), 162-63.
2021: "Youth and Peace: Valente Ngwenya Malangatana," in Unesco Art Collection: Selected Works (Paris: Unesco), 448-451.
2021: “Pursuing a Research Agenda: the role of ASAI as publisher,” in Decolonizing Art Book Fairs: publishing practices from the south(s), edited by Y. Camps, M. Grünke, P. Obolo, M. Pichler, P. Tabapsi and N. Mabaso (Berlin: Miss Read, Afrikadaa, and Mosaïques), 60-65.
2021: “Deep Ambivalences: Malangatana’s anti/colonial aesthetic,” in Malangatana: Mozambique Modern edited by H, Folkerts, F. Mings and C. Petridis (Art Institute of Chicago). https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/34/malangatana-mozambique-modern/8/malangatanas-anticolonial-aesthetic
2021: “Malangatana as anti/colonial subject, (1959-74), Post: notes on art in a global context (MoMA, NYC, 3 February), https://post.moma.org/malangatana-as-anti-colonial-subject-1959-74/
2020: “The Community Arts Project: legacies and limitations of an arts centre, Third Text Africa 12 (ASAI, 2020): 33-53, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Community-Arts-Project-legacies-and-limitations-of-an-arts-centre.pdf
2020: “Everywhere but nowhere: reflections on DV8 magazine”. Herri https://herri.org.za/4/mario-pissarra/
2018: “Of and Apart from the People: a close reading of representations of Malangatana in catalogues produced for group exhibitions in Mozambique, 1962-2011”. Third Text Africa v.5, 50-71, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TTA_MOZ_VOL-5-2018_Of-and-Apart-from-the-People.pdf
2018: “Affirmations of Humanity: Sfiso Ka-Mkame’s dialogues with himself”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/sfiso-ka-mkames-dialogues-with-himself/
2017: Awakenings: The art of Lionel Davis. Cape Town: ASAI in assoc. w. District Six Museum and Centre for Humanities Research, UWC (editor and contributing author, 224 pp), https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Awakenings_Introduction_Pissarra.pdf
2017: Beyond Binaries. KZNSA Gallery, Durban (exhibition catalogue, 60pp])
2015: “Re/writing Sam J Ntiro: Challenges of framing in the excavation of a 'lost' pioneer”. Third Text Africa v.4: 25-60, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Rewriting-Sam-J-Ntiro.pdf
2015: In Print/ In Focus. Cape Town: ASAI (exhibition catalogue, 14pp)
2014: “Quiet Provocations: Thoughts on two works by Randolph Hartzenberg”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/quiet-provocatph-hartzenberg/
2014: “Some thoughts on Peter Clarke”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/some-thoughts-peter-clarke-1/
2013: “Uncontained? The limits of ahistoricism in the ‘opening’ of the Community Arts Project archive at the Centre for Humanities Research”. Third Text Africa v.3 n.1: 56-85, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Uncontained.pdf
2013: Against the Grain: sculptors from the Cape. ASAI, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue, 64pp)
2011: “Isolation, distance and engagement: South African art and artists in the international sphere”. In Pissarra (ed), Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Vol 3: 1973-92. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 180-203.
2011: “Art and decolonisation: small steps towards a global art history”. www.asai.co.za
2010: “Migrant Perspectives: The Art of Zemba Luzamba”. Critical Interventions 6: 102-07
2010: “De-segregating the Audience: Race & the Politics of Exhibitions”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_De-segregating-the-Audience_2010.pdf
2009: “Decolonizing art in Africa: some preliminary thoughts on the relevance of the discourse on decolonization for contemporary African art, with particular reference to post-apartheid South Africa”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Decolonising-art-in-Africa_2009.pdf
2009: “Decolonisation of art in Africa: a post-apartheid South African perspective”. https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Decolonisation-of-art-in-Africa-a-post-apartheid-SA-perspective_2009.pdf
2008: “Creating New Conditions for Creativity: Mario Pissarra in conversation with Uche Okeke”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Uche-Okeke-and-Mario-Pissarra_Creating-New-Conditions-for-Creativity_2008.pdf
2007: “Re-reading Malangatana”. Farafina 11 (Lagos, Nigeria), 13-17.
2007: “Madi Phala: what place in ‘our’ art history?” Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Madi-Phala_2007.pdf
2006: “Donovan Ward”. Art South Africa 4(1): 83. Republished www.asai.co.za
2006: “Demystifying art: Garth Erasmus interviewed”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/demystifying-art-garth-erasmus-interviewed-by-mario-pissarra/
2006: “To Neglect Africa is to Neglect Ourselves”. Art South Africa 3(4): 41
2006: “Cast in Colour? Towards an Inclusive South African Art”. In H. Proud (ed) ReVisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art, SAHO & UNISA Press, Pretoria, 46-53. (for online version, http://revisions.co.za/articles/cast-in-colour-towards-an-inclusive-south-african-art/ )
2006: “Songs of Place: Some Reflections on the Paintings of Tyrone Appollis”. In S. Hundt (ed), Tyrone Appollis: Today and Yesterday. Cape Town: Sanlam, 15-24
2006: “Death to Venice! A South African perspective on the irrelevance of representation at the Venice Biennale”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-PIssarra_Death-to-Venice_2006.pdf
2006: “Picasso and Africa: Are we asking the right questions?” ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Picasso-and-Africa_2006.pdf
2005 (co-author, with Arlene Brown): Art & Design for Everyone: Grade 10 Learners Book. Cape Town: Juta Gariep.
2005 (co-author, with Arlene Brown): Art & Design for Everyone: Grade 10 Teachers Guide. Cape Town: Juta Gariep.
2003-05: Botaki exhibition catalogues (1-4). Cape Town: Old Mutual Asset Managers.
2004: “The Luggage is Still Labelled: But Is It going to the right destination?” Third Text 67 (vol 18, issue 2): 183- 191
2004: Short Change: the curator as editor [review of The Short Century], Art Throb, https://artthrob.co.za/04jan/reviews/pub_shortcentury.html
2003: “Decolonise the Mind”. Art South Africa 2 (2): 37- 41
2003: “The Trails and Tribulations of Sfiso Ka Mkame”. Artthrob 74, https://artthrob.co.za/03oct/reviews/ava.html
2003: “Short Change: The Curator as Editor”. Arthrob 77, https://artthrob.co.za/04jan/reviews/pub_shortcentury.html
2003: “Mgcineni Pro Sobopha”. Art South Africa 2 (2): 68
2003: “Brett Murray”. Polvo, Chicago, USA
2001: “Post-colonial Africa”. Third Text 57:106- 108. Also published as “Contemporary Art of the San of Southern Africa”. www.artthrob.co.za
2001-03: Over 40 profiles on African artists and public figures, 16 of which were on African musicians, Contemporary Africa Database and Akwaaba websites, Africa entre, London (regrettably no longer online)
2000: “Cross Currents: Contemporary art practice in South Africa”. Third Text 52: 95-102. Also published www.artthrob.co.za
2000: “Reggae media”. Gargamel: The International Word in Reggae Music 2 (London): 31
1998: Reviews and reports on visiting reggae artists, Cape Times.
1993: “Some of my best friends are cultural workers”. Die Suid Afrikaan Feb/March: 21, 23
1991: “The Visual Arts in the Culture of Resistance”. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the SA Association of Art Historians.
1990: (with Jacqui Nolte) “MOMA show raises questions about people’s culture and art museums”. In D. Elliott (ed), Art from South Africa. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 33- 34.
1990: “Prejudice and potential in political cartooning”. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of the SA Association of Art Historians.
1983: “Sister Carol: Too Crucial”. East Village Eye (New York): 43, 55
1982-83: Numerous record reviews. DV8 zine (Johannesburg).

Publications (Editor)

2023: Access and Liminality: ASAI Print Access Workshops at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Digital publication: ASAI.
2023: (With Roberto Conduru) 3rd Text Africa, No. 13, ‘Africa/Brasil’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2020: (With Fiona Mauchan) Third Text Africa, No. 12, ‘Collectivities’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2018: (With Rayda Becker) Third Text Africa, Vol. 5, ‘Mozambique’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2015: (With Natasha Himmelman) Third Text Africa, Vol. 4, ‘East Africa’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2013: Third Text Africa, Vol. 3 No. 1, ‘Localities’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2011: Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Vol 3: 1973-92. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (232pp). Includes introductory essay “Introduction: Recovering critical moments, 2-15."
2011 (co-editor, with T. Goniwe and M. Majavu): Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Vol 4: 1990-2007. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (222pp). Includes introductory essay (with M. Majavu): “Introduction: Charting pathways in an era of posts”, 2-19/"
2011 (editor-in-chief): Visual Century: South African Art in Context, 1907-2007, Vols 1-4. Johannesburg: Wits University Press
2009-10: Third Text Africa (8 vols of pre-published archival texts from Third Text, with editorial essays).
2005-present: Numerous texts for Word View. Digital platform: ASAI.

Presentations

2024: Opening speech, Thami Jali solo exhibition, KZNSA Gallery.
2023: Opening speeches at exhibitions: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT); Satellite Gallery, Durban University of Technology (DUT).
2022: Panelist, Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, Haus Kulturen der Weldt (HKW), Berlin.
2022: Panelist, “Malangatana: disrupting established narratives”, presented at symposium “Pioneers of contemporary African art”, National Institute of Art History (INHA), Paris.
2021: Guest presenter, “Malangatana Valente Ngwenya e a estética anti/colonial”. International webinar series, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (zoom).
2020: Guest presenter, C-Map programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York (zoom).
2020: Workshop series, “Critical writing”, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban.
2019: Panellist, Critical Epistemologies workshop, Art for Humanity, DUT.
2017: Presentation [on Awakenings], African Art Book Fair, La Colonie, Paris.
2017: (with Lionel Davis) Awakenings book launch, District Six Museum, Cape Town.
2017: Opening speech, Zemba Luzamba exhibition, Stellenbosch University Art Museum.
2017: Keynote address, Lionel Davis retrospective exhibition opening, South African National Gallery (SANG).
2016: Lecture series, “Aesthetics of Decolonisation”, Centre for Visual Arts, UKZN.
2016: Presentation (on ASAI), President’s Competition, Gaborone, Botswana.
2016: Opening speech, Sfiso ka Mkame exhibition, African Art Centre, Durban.
2016: Presentation on publishing, for postgraduate students and staff, Centre for Visual Arts, UKZN.
2015: Opening speech, Manfred Zylla/ Garth Erasmus exhibition, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2015: Moderator, conversation with Zemba Luzamba, Africa Month, UCT.
2014: Speaker, Peter Clarke memorial, SANG.
2014: Panellist, publishing symposium, Dakar Biennale, Senegal.
2013: Panellist, Against the Grain exhibition, SANG.
2012: Panellist, publishing symposium, Dakar Biennale.
2012: Presentation [on ASAI website], Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2012: Conference paper, African Studies Association, Philadelphia, USA.
2011: Presentations, Visual Century book launches, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; James Gallery, College of New York; Wits University; Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre; SANG; Institute for Democratic Alternatives (IDASA), Cape Town.
2011: Lecture, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique.
2010: Panellist, Bonani documentary photography conference, Centre for the Book, Cape Town.
2010: Panellist, Borders (Bamako biennale) exhibition, SANG.
2009: Panellist, Africa Cont consultative conference, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
2008: Conference paper, South African Visual Arts Historians, University of Stellenbosch.
2007: Opening speech, Madi Phala posthumous exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2007: Presentation, International Association of Art Critics (AICA)/ Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) seminar, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2006: Panellist, VANSA conference, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2006: Guest lecture, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2006: Panellist, Picasso in Africa exhibition, Centre for the Book, Cape Town.
2000: Lecture [on Community Arts Project], School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.
1998: Presentation on cultural policy [on behalf of Community Arts Network], Parliamentary Arts & Culture Standing Committee, Cape Town.
1996: Course/ workshop series, “Mural Art History”, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1994: Presentation on cultural policy [on behalf of Arts and Cultural Development Network], Parliamentary Arts & Culture Standing Committee, Cape Town.
1994: Respondent, South African Association of Art Historians conference, University of Stellenbosch.
1990: Conference paper, South African Association of Art Historians, UCT.
1990: Panelist, Political Cartoons in the Western Cape exhibition opening, Centre for African Studies, UCT.
1989: Course/ lecture series (History of Art I), “African Art”, UCT.
1989: Conference paper, South African Association of Art Historians, University of Natal, Durban.

Organisation of Workshops & Conferences

2023: (for ASAI) Print Access Workshops at UCT, Wits University and Art Print Studio KZN
2019: (for ASAI) Critical Epistemologies workshop, Art for Humanity, Durban University of Technology (three-day workshop for writers)
2018: (for ASAI) Lithography Workshop, UCT (two-week workshop for printmakers trained at the Community Arts Project)
2017: Roundtable conversations with artists associated with community arts networks from the 80s/90s, KZNSA Gallery, Durban; Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth; Trauma Victim’s Empowerment Centre, Thohoyandou.
2014: (For ASAI) “In Print”, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Two week access workshop for professional printmakers.
2011: “Art as an act of decolonization: perspectives from and on the global south”. Convenor/chairperson of conference panel, CIHA/SAVAH conference, Wits University.
2008: (For Visual Century project) “South African Artists as Exiles, Emigrants and Expatriates, 1938-1990” Centre for African Studies, UCT (one day research seminar with former exiles and researchers)
1990-98: Co-organised national and provincial conferences and workshops for the Cultural Workers Congress, Federation of South African Cultural Organisations, Arts & Cultural Development Network, and Community Arts Project. These were held at the UCT, UWC, and CAP.
1991: (co-convenor, with Sandra Klopper), South African Association of Art Historians conference, UCT.

Advisory/Committee Work

2022: Ajudicator, KZNSA members annual exhibition.
2017- present: Member, Acquisitions Committee, Durban Art Gallery. Member, Advisory Board, UKZN Gallery.
2006-21: Consulting Editor, Critical Interventions: journal of contemporary African culture, USA.
2009-12: Member, Advisory Council, Third Text, London.
2008-10: Member, Visual Arts Advisory Panel, National Arts Council of South Africa.
1998-99: Representative of South African NGO Coalition, National Standards Body for Culture & Arts (NSB02). Also, chairperson, National Lead Project for Arts & Culture; and convenor, Arts NGO’s Accreditation Lobby.
1994-98: Member of advisory bodies to the Adult Basic Education & Training sub- directorate of the Western Cape Education Department.
1987-99: Active member, including several leadership positions, in community organizations: Arts & Culture Forum of the City of Cape Town (1998-99); Arts & Cultural Development Network (1994); Visual Arts Group (1989-93); Cultural Workers Congress (1988-93); Gardens Youth Congress (1987-90).
1991: Visual arts editor (western Cape), Staffrider.
1979-81: Founder member and club DJ, Scratch, Cape Town

International Awards/Invitations

2022: Association of Art Museum Curators Excellence Award: Digital Publications. For Malangatana: Mozambique Modern (with lead curators H. Folkerts, F. Mings and C. Petridis).
2022: Invited participant (ASAI), African Art Book Fair, Dakar Biennale.
2022: Invited participant (ASAI), Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, HKW.
2022: Invited scholar, “Pioneers of contemporary African art” symposium, National Institute of Art History (INHA), Paris.
2020: Invited scholar, C-Map programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York (zoom).
2017: Invited participant (ASAI), African Art Book Fair, Paris.
2016: International Adjudicator, President’s Competition, National Museum, Gaborone.
2014: Invited guest (ASAI), African Art Book Fair, Dakar Biennale.
2012: Invited guest, Dakar Biennale.
2011: Invited guest, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo.
2009: Invited guest, Africa.cont, Lisbon.
1998: Invited delegate (Community Arts Project), “Shuttle 99” cultural exchange programme organized by Nordic Council of Ministers, Denmark & Sweden.

Other

1983 (May) – 1985 (January): Fled South Africa to avoid military conscription. Lived precariously in New York, Portugal and Zimbabwe. Returned to RSA after expelled from Zimbabwe as a “security risk”

Joe Turpin

b.1995 Johannesburg, South Africa; lives in Johannesburg.

Joe Turpin is an artist whose research practice focuses on historically charged narratives and semiotics as expansions of painting. Joe makes mixed-media installations grounded in painting that create temporal conversations about identity, memory, and history. Turpin graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2023 with an MFA in Painting & Drawing, and from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 2018 with a BA in Fine Art.

Education

2023: MFA Painting & Drawing, Pratt Institute, New York
2018: BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Solo Exhibitions

2024: Complicit Victim: On the Margin of the Shoah, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Cape Town
2024: Striking Roots, Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Lusaka, Zambia
2024: Set in Stone, South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town
2023: Complicit Victim: On the Margin of the Shoah, Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Durban
2023: When the Dust Settles, NWU Gallery, North West University, Potchefstroom
2021: More Than We Can Bear, Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg
2021: Complicit Victim: On the Margin of the Shoah, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Johannesburg
2017: Pop (T)Art!, Ants Parkhurst, Johannesburg
2016: No Holding Bars, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

Group Exhibitions (International)

2023: Making Place, Thesis Exhibition, Pfizer Building, Pratt Institute, New York, United States (in fulfilment of MFA Degree)
2019: London Summer Intensive Residency Showcase, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2018: Larroque Arts Festival, Galerie La Vieille Poste, Larroque, France
2017: Protest Stickers, Metal, Barbapapa et Armistice Exposition, Continuum espace de projet, Bordeaux, France
2017: 6th TSAI-MO Art Festival, Taichung City Tun District Art Centre, Taichung City, Taiwan
2017: Abstractive by Creative Debuts, The Black & White Building, Shoreditch, London, England
2016: What is the Future of Art?, Future Late, Tate Modern, London, England

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2024: Art Start, Them Again Collective, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg
2023: Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg
2023: Stairways & Ruins, ViNCO, NWU Gallery, North West University, Potchefstroom
2023: Reflections, Bag Factory Artist Studios', Johannesburg
2022: Hegemony, The Hart, Troyeville, Johannesburg
2022: Spier Light Art Festival, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
2021: Joburg Fringe, The Art Room Parkhurst, Johannesburg
2021: Bag Factory 30 Years: So Far, The Future, FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg
2021: Meeting Places, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios x Guns & Rain Gallery, Oxford Parks Precinct, Johannesburg
2021: Paper, RMB Turbine Art Fair 2020 (Online)
2020: Coexistence, TMRW Gallery (The Mixed Reality Workshop), Johannesburg
2020: Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg
2020: RMB Turbine Art Fair (Online), with Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
2020: Latitudes Art Fair (Online), with with Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
2020: Myopia, William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley (Online) 
2019: Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg
2019: IN:DIALOG Bez Valley, Moon Valley Studios, Johannesburg
2019: Everything’s For Sale, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2019: Something Other - A Diversion In The Career Of The Artist, No End Contemporary Art Space, Johannesburg
2019: Winter Salon, Bag Factory Artists Studios, Johannesburg
2018: NEWWORK18, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg (in fulfilment of BFA Degree)
2018: INBETWEEN, Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: Visible Tones, curated stream, part of ‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: WakaWaka, AGOG Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: Expressions of Freedom, 2016 Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, curated by Kalashnikovv Gallery
2016: MUSTRISE, ArtEC Gallery, Gqeberha, (Travelled to National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, June 2016)
2015: Les is More Campaign, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg
2015: Expressions of Freedom, 2015 Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, Old Fort Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, curated by Kalashnikovv Gallery

Residencies

2024: Artist in Residence, Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Lusaka, Zambia
2020/2021: Artist in Residence, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020: Artist in Residence, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2019: London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Art & Camden Arts Centre, London, England

Awards

2022: Stutzman Foundation First Year MFA Fine Arts Awards for Three-Dimensional Art recipient
2018/19: Cassirer Welz Award finalist (Top 3)

Reviews & Articles

2024: Philip Todres, Joe Turpin - Set in Stone at SA Jewish Museum, MapMyWay
2023: CreativeFeel, When The Dust Settles | Preserving the Memory of a Lost Community, Creative Feel
2019: Nkgopoleng Moloi, Joe Turpin in the Depths of Art through Historical Narratives, Semiotics and the Expansion of his Painting Practice, Artskop

Workshops

Print Access Workshop (colour linocut), ASAI x Wits School of Art (2025), Johannesburg

Links

Joe Turpin's website

Eunice ‘Tshidi’ Sefako

b.1962, Smithville, Free State; d.2021

Eunice ‘Tshidi’ Sefako was one of a small number of Black South African women artists that emerged in South Africa during the 1980s. She was associated with the Community Arts Project (CAP) where she excelled in painting, printing and ceramic sculpture. Sefako taught art for many years, initially in townships under CAP’s Children’s Art Programme, and later on, for many years, to kids with intellectual disabilities.

Education

1985–1987: Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town.
1990: Course for Cultural Workers (setting up Community-based arts organisations), Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2022: When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940–2000, Norval Foundation, Cape Town.
2012: Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project archive, ArtB, Belville, Cape Town; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

1990: Group Mural Painting, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London.

Publications

2020: Mario Pissarra, "The Community Arts Project: legacies and limitations of an arts centre," Third Text Africa 12 (August 2020): 33–53.
2013: Mario Pissarra, "Uncontained? The constraints of ahistoricism in the ‘opening’ of the Community Arts Project archive at the Centre for Humanities Research," Third Text Africa 3, no. 1 (November, 2013): 56–85.
2012: Heidi Grunebaum and Emile Maurice (eds), Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project archive, (Cape Town: Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, 2012).
1989: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, (New York: Rizzoli, 1989)

Cultural Work & Employment

late 1980s, early 1990s: Children's Art Programme, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1995: ‘mural’ commission from CAPAB (later Artscape) to serve as a fire curtain for opera stage (with Trish de
Villers, Sophie Peters, Xolile Mtakatya, and Matshabalala Mkonto)
Set Painting, Artscape Theatre, Cape Town.
Art Teacher, Athlone School for the Blind, Cape Town.
Art teacher, Molenbeek Special Education School, Maitland, Cape Town.

Phindile Mamba

b. 1977, Mbabane, Eswatini; lives in Mbabane.

Phindile Mamba is an artist from Eswatini, working primarily in painting. Mamba’s brightly coloured portraits exist in a surreal world, in which her subjects are depicted alongside playfully rendered animal and plant life. Mamba’s works and their titles engage the imperative for women—in Eswatini, and the wider world—to take back their own power, even under the oppressive conditions that create their ongoing suffering.

Education

Short Courses, Cooperative and Development Education Centre (CODEC), Ezulwini Valley, Eswatini.
National Handicraft Centre, Ezulwini.

Solo Exhibitions (Eswatini)

2020: A Woman's Power, Yebo Art Gallery, Ezulwini.

Group Exhibitions (Eswatini)

2021: Eswatini Contemporary, Yebo Art Gallery, Ezulwini.
2019: Eswatini Now #5, Yebo Art Gallery, Ezulwini.
2018: Swaziland Independence, Yebo Art Gallery at Sharma House, Ezulwini.
2018: Contemporary Swaziland, Yebo Art Gallery, Ezulwini.
2017: The Burning Question, Yebo Art Gallery and Bushfire Festival of the Arts, Eswatini.
2016: Just Now! Yebo Art Gallery and Bushfire Festival of the Arts, Eswatini.
2016: Infinite Variations, Yebo Art Gallery, Ezulwini.
2015: Ezulwini Annual Biennale, Bushfire Festival of the Arts, Eswatini.
2014: All Over the Show, Yebo Art Gallery, Ezulwini.
2014: "Livi LaBomake" (Women’s Voices), touring project, Eswatini
2014: Online Exhibition, Global Fund for Women.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2022: Eswatini: Protest and Hope, The Forge, Johannesburg.
2021: Art Joburg, Artsy, [online].
2021: Turbine Art Fair, with White River Art Gallery, [online].
2019: On Balance, Women, Wine and Words Festival, Harare, Zimbabwe.
2019: Art Joburg, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2016: Exploring Southern African Consciousness, Mbombela Art Gallery, Nelspruit, South Africa.

Collections

United States of American Embassy, Eswatini.
Private Collections

Publications

Women, Wine and Words Festival, On Balance, a woman from each African Country (Harare: Calameo Publishing, 2020).

Press

Mmeli Mkwanazi, Yebo Art Gallery Promotes Art Online, (The Times of Swaziland, 2021)

Links

Phindile's profile on Yebo Art Gallery, Eswatini

Elias Jengo

b.1936, Tanga town, lives near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Elias Jengo is a Tanzanian artist and educator. Alongside Sam Ntiro, he founded the University of Dar es Salaam’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts in 1969, where he lectured for over two decades. He paints ‘semi-abstract’ figurative scenes in selective palettes, focusing on themes from the everyday, to women’s liberation and the pollution of our natural environment.

Education

Art Education, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Art Education, Kent State University, Ohio, Unites States of America.
Educational Technology, Sir George Williams University (now Concordia), Montreal, Canada.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

1993: Dortmund, Germany.
1992: Munster, Germany.
1989: Westphalia Park, Dortmund, West Germany. 
1989: Staacken, Berlin, Germany.

Solo Exhibitions (Tanzania)

2019: The Forgotten Agenda, Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam.
1991: Norad Premises, Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam.
1990: Goethe Institute, Dar es Salaam.
1988: Lamboni Road, House No. 2 University Campus, Dar es Salaam.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2019: The Legendary Artists of Tanzania, Nairobi Gallery, Nairobi.
2008: AFRICA/NOW - Contemporary Art from Africa, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark; Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
1998: Moderne Africanische Malerei, Gallerie Halsen, Frankfurt, Germany.
1995: Rise with the Sun: Women and Africa, Winnipeg, Canada.
1995: Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1994: Gallery African Heritage, Oslo, Norway.
1993: Gallerly Espc, Finland.
1993: Sognefjord Art Cruise, Oslo, Norway.
1989: Artists of Africa, Ottawa, Canada.
1988: Dronninglund Art Centre, Tvind, Denmark.
1984: Commonwealth Institute, London.
1977: Lagos, Nigeria.
1975: New Stanley Hotel, Nairobi.
1971: Union Carbide Building, New York, United States of America.
1970: Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Russia).
1969: Munich, Germany.
1967: Lusaka, Zambia.

Group Exhibitions (Tanzania)

1998: Contemporary Tanzanian Painting, Goethe Institute, Dar es Salaam.
1997: Mkomazi Mind and Memory Maps, The British Council, Dar es Salaam.
1996: National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
1995: Tanzania Art Panorama, Dar es Salaam.
1995: United Nations Development Programme Headquarters, Dar es Salaam.
1992: Russian Cultural Centre, Dar es Salaam.
1988: Frontline Youth Centre, Ihemi, Iringa.
1986: United States Information Center, Dar es Salaam.
1983: Goethe Institute, Dar es Salaam.
1978: Goethe Institute, Dar es Salaam.
1976: National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
1974: National Library Dar es Salaam.
1968: Goethe Institute, Dar es Salaam.

Collections

Contemporary Art Gallery, National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.

Commissions in Tanzania

Mural and monument commissions, designed and executed in collaboration with Prof. S.J. Ntiro, exist at the following sites:

1990: Bank of Tanzania Branch, Mbeya. (six murals)
1986: Bank of Tanzania, Arusha. (one mural)
1985: Chama cha Mapinduzi Chairman office, Dodoma. (four murals)
1984: Air Tanzania Corporation Headquarters, Ohio Street, Dar es Salaam. (five murals)
1980: Kilimanjaro Chama cha Mapinduzi Regional Headquarters, Moshi. (four murals)
1979: Posts and Telecommunication Head-quarters, Ohio Street, Dar es Salaam. (four murals)
1979: Bank of Tanzania, Mwanza Branch, Mwanza. (two murals)
1977: Lumumba Street, Dar es Salaam. (Monument for the 10th Anniversary of the Arusha Declaration)

Other Commissions

1995: Poster Design, General Elections.
1984: Ceremonial Robe Design, Chairman of the Sokoine University of Agriculture Council.
1978: Oil Paint Mural, Board of Internal Trade Training Centre, Pugu Road, Dar es Salaam.
1977: Oil Paint Mural, The Burning of the Faithful, St. Alban's Anglican Church Upanga, Dar es Salaam.
1971: Monument Design, 10th Independence Anniversary, Tabora.

Awards

2004 - 2005: Fulbright Fellowship, Scholar in Residence, Stark College campus, Kent State University, Ohio.

Publications

2016: A concise study on contemporary art in Tanzania, Yves Goscinny, in collaboration with Elias Jengo (Dar es Salaam: Embassy of Switzerland in Tanzania).
2003: "Pioneers of Contemporary Art in Tanzania," East Africa Art Biennale (Dar es Salaam: EAAB).
2000: "The Visual Arts in Tanzania," Art in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: Michel Lanfrey/East African Movies Ltd).
1999: "The Role of Political Caricature and Cartoons in the Democratization Process of East Africa," Sunday Observer, September 5, 1999, 11.
1998: "Art for Nature Sake," Financial Times, June 10–16, 1998, 11.
1997: The Visual Arts of Tanzania, (Hodi: Journal of the Norway Tanzania Association).
1992: "Consultancy Report on the Improvement and advancement of the Bandari College audio-visual Unit," by Elias Jengo, and S T Mahenge, June 1992.
1990: "Calendar of oil paintings in full colour from 1969–1989," (Berlin: Published by Gerda Nitschke, Butteller Dam).
1985: "Special Problem of Artists in Developing Countries," In Authorship and Copyright in Tanzania, edited by C. Rwezaura (Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam Institute of Education)
1985: "Towards a National Cultural Policy for the Promotion of Art in Tanzania," Utafiti: Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (1985).
1983: Falsafa ya Sanaa Tanzania, edited by Elias Jengo, L A Mbughuni and Sadaani Abdu Kondoro (Dar es Salaam: National Arts Council).
1983: "Towards Rational Application of Audio Visual in Education and Training Studies in Curriculum Development," (Dar es Salaam: Institute of Education, No. 8).
1982: Sanaa za Asili, Urithi wa Utamaduni wetu, edited by C.K Omari and Martin Mvungi (Dar es Salaam: TPH)
1979: "Art and National Development," Tanzania Educational Journal 17 (1979).
1976: "Folk Media and Social Development in Tanzania," Communication for Social Development in Africa (Nairobi: UNICEF).
1975: "Educational Technology: Its Place in the Process of Life Long Education in Tanzania," Programmed Learning and Educational Technology (London: Sweet and Maxwell Ltd)
1972: "A Survey of Audio Visual Equipment in Tanzania Schools and Colleges," (Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam Institute of Education, Mimeo).
1971: Bamboo Pen/Kalamu ya Mwanzi (Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam Institute of Education, Mimeo).
1971: Uchunguzi wa Zana za Kufundishia katika Shule za Msingi Tanzania, (Dares Salaam: Dar es Salaam Institute of Education).

Published Artworks

1993: Marja Jänis, Michael Garner, Africa Kila Kitu: Contemporary art of Tanzania and Zimbabwe, (Helsinki: Finnish Artists' Association, 1993), 8.
1986: Sunday News, June 1986, 5.
1986: Kojo Fosu, "Elias Jengo," 20th Century Art of Africa (Nigeria: Gaskiya Corp, 1986), plate 119, 117. 
1983: Klima V et al (eds), Safari za Africkou Kulturcu, (Czech Republic: Praha, 1983), 375.
1981: Elias Jengo, L A Mbughuni and Sadaani Abdu Kondoro, Falsafa ya Sanaa Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: National Arts Council, 1982), 45.
1971: Newsweek, December 1971.
1971: Time International, December 1971.

Academic Publications (by and about)

Elias Jengo, "The Making of Contemporary Art in Tanzania," African Arts 54, no.3. (August 2021): 50–61.
Álvaro Luís Lima, "The Place of Socialism in African Art," African Arts 54, no.3. (August 2021): 10–13.
Imani Sanga, "Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo," Journal of African cultural studies 26, no.2. (June 2014): 140–154

Conference Papers

2002: "Similarities and Differences Between Rock Art and Contemporary Art," International Workshop on Documentation and Conservation of Rock Art, January 2002, Arusha, Tanzania.
1996: "Current Issues in the Nomenclature of African Art: The Challenge of a Tradition," The Significance of Traditional Cultures for Today's Society, Seminar: November 11-13, Goethe Institute, Dar es Salaam.
1994: "Communication strategy in Community-Based Protection of the Rights of the Child," Community Based Protection of the rights of the Child, Seminar: August 23-25, Kunduchi Hotel, Dar es Salaam.
1993: "Roots and inspiration in African Art," International Conference on Ethnic Art, Conference: Oct 25- Nov 3, Oslo, Norway.
1991: "Africa in Search of Ethnic Aesthetics in the Visual Arts," Patterns of change in the Contemporary Caribbean, Workshop: June 12-25, City College of New York, New York.
1989: "Nadharia ya Mawasiliano" (Communication Theory), Community Development Publicity Seminar, Iringa, Tanzania.
1988: "The Anatomy of Communication," Audio-visual Media Refresher Course for Community Development Officers, Iringa, Tanzania.
1986: "Contemporary African Painting: Problem and Perspectives," 50th Anniversary of Malangatana Art, Maputo, Mozambique.
1985: "Current Issues in Contemporary African Art," US Citizens Meeting, United States Embassy, Dar es Salaam.
1980: "Towards the Rational Application of Audio-Visual Media in Education and Training," National Curriculum Development Workshop for Adult Education Tutors, organised by the United Nation Population and Family Life Education Project, Dar es Salaam.
1979: "Communication Process in Education and Training," Workshop for Teachers of Financial Management, Dar es Salaam.
1978: "Educational Technology: Its Implication for School Inspectors," School Inspectors' Seminar, Kibaha, Coast Region, Tanzania.
1977: "Mass Media and Black Civilisation," 2nd World African and Black Festival of Art and Culture, Lagos, Nigeria.
1977: "Cultural Imperialism and Artistic Underdevelopment in East Africa," Universities of Eastern Africa Social Science Conference, Dar es Salaam.
1973: "Education Technology Needs in Developing Nations," Association for the Development of Instruction Systems, Cape Rouge, Quebec, Canada.

Leadership

2008: Founding Board Chairman, Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam.
2003 - ongoing: Chairman, East Africa Biennale Association.
1999: Chairman,Members of the State House Art Committee
Chairman, National Arts Council, Tanzania,

Links

Visit Prof Jengo's website

Agness Ng’ambi Yombwe

b. 1966, Lusaka, Zambia; lives in Livingstone.

As founder and co-director of the WayiWayi Art Studio and Gallery in Livingstone, since 2004, Yombwe has balanced a professional visual art career with ongoing involvement as an educator. Her work, amongst a wide array of topics, deals with social taboo, and challenges accepted norms around gender, sex and sexuality in contemporary Zambian life.

Education and Training

2018: Certificate, Corporate Governance, two-day training course, Fairview Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia.
2011: The Business Skills for Artists Training, Barn Motel, Lusaka.
2006: Certificate, Cutting and Design, Tabitha Training Centre, Botswana.
1992: Certificate, Paper-Based Technology (APT), Ministry of Community Development and Social Affairs, Mpapa Gallery, Lusaka.
1989: Art Teachers Diploma, Evelyn Hone College, Lusaka.

Solo Exhibitions (Zambia)

2019: Ni Mzilo – It is Taboo, Exhibition and book launch, National Art Gallery, Livingstone.
2015: Dialogue, 37d Gallery, Lusaka.
2012: Social Issues, Livingstone Museum, Livingstone.
1994: Wisdom in the Dance, Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre, Lusaka.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2002: Exhibition, Deborah Hoover`s house, Boston, Massachusets.
1995: Agness Yombwe, Edvard Munch Studio, Ekely, Norway.

Group Exhibitions (Zambia)

2019: New perspectives, Lusaka organized by African Inspirations
2019: Turning in: other ways of seeing National Art Gallery, Livingstone.
2018: Exhuming Histories National Art Gallery, Livingstone.
2018: Yombwe Family Affair Art Exhibition, Lusaka.
2018: The Affordable Art Exhibition, Woodlands, Livingstone.
2018: The Journey Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Livingstone.
2017: Kuboneshango II, Lusaka National Museum, Lusaka.
2017: KonseKonse, Henry Tayali Gallery, Lusaka.
2016: The Affordable Art Fair, 37d Gallery, Lusaka.
2016: Patterns of Life, Red Dot Gallery, Lusaka.
2015: Exhibition, Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingstone.
2015: A Celebration of Today, Kalumbila Mine, North Western Province.
2014: National Art Exhibition, Livingstone Gallery, Livingstone.
2013: Women in Art – Art by Women, Choma Museum, Choma.
2012: Lechwe Trust Exhibition, Royal Livingstone Hotel, Livingstone.
2012: The 2012 X-Mass Exhibition of Arts and Crafts of the Southern Province of Zambia, The Choma Museum, Choma.
2012: Exploring the Patterns of Life, Red Dot Gallery, Lusaka
2010: Original Prints Group Exhibition, Alliance Franchise, Lusaka.
2008: Woman’s Art Exhibition, River Gallery at the Whistle Stop, Victoria Falls, Livingstone.
2008: Agness Buya Yombwe, Lawrence Yombwe, River Gallery, Livingstone.
2007: Artists in Southern Province, Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre, Lusaka.
2005: The Paired Visionaries, Twaya Art Gallery, Lusaka.
2005: Franco COMESA Club Art Exhibition, Lusaka.
1999: Artists across the Zambezi, 5 Zambian Artists Working in Botswana, Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre, Lusaka.
1996: Two-person show, Brooks Residence, European Union Delegation, Lusaka.
1989: Zambian Artists, Mpapa Gallery, Lusaka.
1989: Art Teacher's Exhibition, American Information Centre, Lusaka.
1989: National Art Exhibition, Evelyn Hone College, Lusaka.
1988: Zambian Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Department of Cultural Services, Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2020: FNB Art Joburg (with Modzi Gallery's 'Ba Zambia Ndi Bantu'), online.
2020: Will the sun rise and shine again post COVID-19, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, online.
2019: On Balance, The women, wine and words festival, Theatre in the Park, Harare.
2019: FNB Art Fair (with Modzi Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
2018: Southern African Exhibition, Tobin Ohashi Gallery, Minato City, Tokyo.
2016: DIALOGUE, Kunstabanken Hedmark Kunstsenterin, Hamar, Norway.
2015: FETAFRIK, A Multi-Artistic Festival, Republic of Seychelles.
2008: Recycling, Kunstabanken Hedmark Kunstsenterin, Hamar.
2005: Threads, Botswana’s Foremost Female Artists, Frame Gallery, Gaborone.
2003: Artists in Botswana, Botswana National Museum, Gaborone.
2002: Artists at McColl, McColl Centre for Visual Artists, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1999: Zambian Female Artists Exhibition, Kunstabanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar.
1999: Artists in Botswana, Botswana National Museum, Gaborone
1997: Art for the Heart, a Celebration of Contemporary Zambian Art, Africa Centre Gallery, London.
1995: Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries, Art Gallery at Department of Education and Culture, Jakarta, Indonesia.
1994: Ethnic Art in a Multicultural World, Oslo.
1994: Zambian Cultural Festival, Bonn, Germany.

Collections

The National Art Collection, Lusaka National Museum, Lusaka.
Chaminuka Village Art Collection, Lusaka.
Thapong Collection, Thapong Visual Arts Centre, Gaborone.
Tulipamwe Collection, National Art Gallery, Windhoek.
McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte.
Matero Boys Secondary School, Lusaka.
Barclays Bank.
Standard Chartered Bank, Lusaka.
Lechwe Trust Art Collection, Lusaka.

The artist's work is also held in numerous private collections in Norway, Germany, the United States of America, Australia, Japan and South Africa.

Awards and Achievements

2017: Certificate Finalist, CEO Global's Most Influential Women in Business and Government, Arts and Culture, Pretoria.
2005: First Prize (Prints), Franco COMESA Club Art Exhibition, Lusaka.
2004: Third Prize (Fabrics), Northern Art Teachers Association, National Museum, Gaborone.
2003: First Prize (Prints/Graphics), Artist in Botswana Art Exhibition, National Museum, Gaborone.
2000: The Julia Malunga Award (Best Female Artist), National Arts Council of Zambia Ngoma Awards, Lusaka.
1996: Best Female Artist Award, Zambia National Visual Arts Council, Lusaka.
1994: First Prize (Painting), Zambian-Italian Cultural Centre, Lusaka.
1992: Most Outstanding Artwork Prize (with Dickson Nyendwa), Sculpture workshop conducted by Vincent Woropay, sponsored by British Council and Mpapa Gallery, Lusaka.
1989: First Prize (Handicrafts), German Zambian Friendship Association, Evelyn Hone College, Lusaka.

Residencies and Workshops

2008: First African Regional Summit and Exhibition on Visual Arts, International Conference Centre, Abuja.
2002: International Residency, McColl Center for the Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2001: Women’s Arts Painting Techniques Workshop, Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre, Lusaka.
2000: Tulipamwe International Art Workshop, Kansimba Guest Lodge, Namibia.
1999: Thapong International Artists’ Workshop, Kanamo Center, Mahalapye, Botswana.
1995: Artist in Residence, Edvard Munch Studio, Ekely, Norway.
1994: Mbile International Artists Workshop, Siavonga, Lusaka.
1993: Art and Design Cultural Visit Program, Wimbledon School of Art, London.

Arts Teaching, Workshops, and Seminars

2019 - 2020: Creative Directors (as Wayi Wayi), Livingstone Public Art Development, engaged by Private Enterprise Programme, Zambia.
2020: Staff Enterprise Preparedness in Empowered World View - Transforming Hearts, Minds & Pockets, Field trip at Wayi Wayi Art Studio, Livingstone. 
2019: Pottery/ Ceramic workshop (supported by Public Enterprise Programme), Zambia, with facilitators from Mzilikazi Arts Center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. 
2018: Capacity Building Workshop for Creative Industries (supported by Zambian Breweries and Ministry of Tourism and Arts Livingstone), Zambia.
2017: Consultant and coordinator, National Women`s Workshop on Financial Inclusion (sponsored by Zambian Financial Sector Deepening limited - FSDZ), Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingstone.
2016: Instructor, Handicraft Design, Production, and Enhancement Workshop, Mongu, Zambia.
2014: Instructor, Handicraft Design, Production and Enhancement Workshop, Ndola/ Copper Belt, Chipata/ Eastern, Mpika/ Muchinga, Ikelenge/ Northwestern, and Choma/ Southern Provinces, Zambia.
2013: Coordinator, Girls’ Art Workshop and Livingstone Anglican Children’s Project, Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingstone.
2009: Coordinator, Children’s Expressive Art Exhibition, Livingstone Museum, Livingstone.
2008: Printmaking Workshop, sponsored by Lechwe Trust in partnership with Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingstone.
2004 - 2006: Art Teacher, Donga Junior Secondary School, Forms 1–3, Francistown, Botswana.
1997 – 2004: Art Teacher, Bonnington Junior Secondary School, Forms 1–3, Gaborone.
1996: Coordinator, Workshop for Women Artists, (organized by Zambia National Visual Arts Council), Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre, Lusaka.
1995 – 1996: National Treasurer, Zambia National Visual Arts Council, Lusaka.
1991 – 1996: Art Teacher, Matero Boys Secondary School, Lusaka (created a student art gallery during this time).
1993: Coordinator, Workshop for Women Artists, Henry Tayali Visual Arts Centre, Lusaka.
1992 – 1993: Committee Member, Zambia Visual Arts Council, Lusaka.
1990: Art Teacher, Libala Secondary School, Junior and Senior Grades 8-12, Lusaka.

Arts Leadership

2016 – ongoing: Trustee, Museum of Women’s History, Lusaka.
2017 – 2019: Board Member, National Arts Council of Zambia, Lusaka.
2016: Concept and Site Coordinator, Zambian National Women’s Workshop on Financial Inclusion, sponsored by Financial Sector Deepening Zambia - FSDZ.
2012: Facilitator, Art and Crafts Workshop/ Product Improvement and Development, (organized by National Arts Council), Choma.
2012 – 2013: Liaison, Global Sojourns Giving Circle, (Monitored project in Livingstone at Tusa Munyandi Pre-school, and arranged guests’ visits), Livingstone. 
2002: Treasurer, Botswana National Art Fair.
2002: Chairperson, South Central Art Teachers Art Association (SCATA).
2002: Art Coordinator and Proposal Writer, Micro-project funding, Bonnington Art Club, Gaborone.
2000: Facilitator, Women’s Art Workshop, John Muafangejo Art Centre, Windhoek.
1989: First Secretary, Zambia National Visual Arts Council, (while a student at Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce), Lusaka.

Presentations

1995: The Role of Tradition in my Art, Art Academy, Oslo, Norway.
1991: The Role of Women Artists in Zambia, South African Development Cooperation Conference, Arusha, Tanzania.

Publications

author of:

2019: Agness Buya Yombwe, Ni Mzilo (It is Taboo), Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery: Livingstone.
2015: Agness Buya Yombwe, Kudumbisiana (Dialogue): She is Not an Artist, (catalogue), Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery: Livingstone.

featured in:

2014: Zambia: Implosion for Explosion, Contemporary Artists from Zambia, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy.
2009: The Art Collection Catalogue, Lechwe Trust, Lusaka.

Press Coverage

2020: Andrew Mulenga, 'Elephant in the room', The Mast, Wednesday February 5 2020.
2019: Elliot Ngosa, 'The expanding vision of Wayi Wayi Studio and Art gallery', The Mast, Saturday May 11 2019.
2019: Austin Kaluba, 'Meet the artistic Yombwe family', Times of Zambia, Friday May 10 2019.
2019: Andrew Mulenga, 'Ni Mzilo – It is taboo', The Mast, Tuesday May 14 2019. 
2019: Elliot Ngosa, 'The expanding vision of Wayi Wayi Studio and Art Gallery', The Lusaka Sun, Saturday March 2 2019.
2019: Ndangwa Mwittah and Lucy Lumbe, 'I found my wife at Evelyn Hone College', SUNDAY MAIL, 17 February 2019.
2018: Andrea Capranico, 'Art is Family Family is Art', December 2018. 
2018: 'Yombwe Family Affairs', Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC).
2017: Profile: Agness Buya Yombwe, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC).
2016: Andrew Mulenga, 'Kudumbisiana (Dialogue): ‘She is not an Artist’', The Post, 2 February 2016.
2013: ZNBC Television appearance featuring Yombwe and youth from Wayi Wayi Art Studio
2012: 'Agness, Lawrence exploring patterns of Life', Zambia National Daily Mail, 24 August 2012.
2012: 'Meet the Yombwes. Is this the most creative family in Zambia?', Bulletin & Record, July 2012.
2011: MUVI Television showcasing Agness and Lawrence Yombwe's exhibition at Red Dot Gallery, Lusaka.
2005: Andrew Mulenga, 'The Yombwes are in town', Weekend Post, 2 September 2005. 
2000: Zoe Titus, 'A woman in Art', The Namibian Weekender, 8 September 2000. 
2000: Khadija Woods, 'Exploring Root/ Routes', Botswana Gazette, 24 May 2000. 
2000: Deborah A. Hoover, 'Revealing the Mbusa as Art: Women Artists in Zambia', African Arts (UCLA): Autumn 2000, Vol. XXXIII.
1996: David Simpson, 'Agnes Buya Ng'ambi Yombwe', Profit Magazine
1996: Mujuda Samson, 'Yombwe scoops Aquila Simpasa Award for '96', The Post, 20 December 1996.
1995: Tembo Maurice, 'Mbusa Art Makes an Impact in Norway', Zambia Daily Mail, 17 November 1995.
1995: Tembo Maurice, 'Tradition and Gender Equality', Zambia Daily Mail, 23 June 1995.
1994: Tembo Maurice, 'Meet Yombwe the Talented Female Artist of Zambia', Zambia Daily Mail, 24 September 1994.
1993: Billy Nkunika, 'Agness Ng'ambi Yombwe: Woman Artist of Zambia', Southern African Art, Vol.2(3).
1993: Anthony Kunda, 'Agnes Yombwe: Artist with an African Touch', The Weekly Post, 22-28 January 1993.

Links

WayiWayi Art Studio and Gallery

Craig Masters

b. 1963, Cape Town, lives in Cape Town.
Craig Masters, an artist and graphic designer from Cape Town, was involved with the Cape Flats Art Group, and has been making work since the 1980s. He believes that “imagination is the true powerhouse of the mind” and this certainly comes through in his paintings, which are stylistically unique within South Africa’s art scene. Masters depicts people and social scenes embedded in landscapes, sometimes urban and rural, and sometimes dreamlike and otherworldly.

Education

1995: Graphic Design Training Course, Qurack Express, Lads Freehand and Photoshop, Hirt and Carter, Cape Town.
1995: Diploma, Practical Animation, Kaleidoscope Studio, Cape Town.
1984: Diploma, Fine Art and Graphic Design, Battswood Training College, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

1998: Parliament’s Opening Exhibition, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town.
Year: The Legacy of Steve Biko, (with Cape Flats Art Group), District Six Museum.
1996: Mural Project, District Six Museum, Cape Town (visited by United States Vice President Al Gore).
1992: Art in Publishing Exhibition, Town Square, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2000: Art Afri, Cultura Group, Bern.

Commissions

2003: Billboard design, Joseph Stone Auditorium Play, Cape Town.
2000s: Painting, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town.

Awards

2010: First Prize for animation, The Lion and the Elephant, One Minute Awards, Amsterdam.
1993: Runner up, Upbeat Story Group Comic Competition, South Africa.

Workshops

1995: Thupelo Workshop, Cape Town.
1992: Charcoal Animation workshop with William Kentridge, Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town.

Publications

1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, Random House Incorporated, Michigan.
2011: Mario Pissarra (ed), A Visual Century, South African Art in Context, Volume 3: 1973–1992, Wits University Press, Johannesburg.

Career

Current: Freelance fine artist and graphic designer
Current: Visual Arts Teacher, Build a Better Society (BABS), Cape Town.
2006 – 2010: Report Writer, South African Film and Publication Board, Cape Town
(work also included publication examination for age restriction recommendations, commercial storyboard production, and collaboration with Paradox Animation for FPB Awareness Clip.)
2001 – 2007: E-learning course design for companies, Laragh Courseware, Cape Town.
1995: Storybook and Textbook illustrator, Hirt and Carter, Cape Town.
1995: Storyboard artist, Network Agency, Cape Town.
1995: Mural painter, Artwork co-ordinator for al Gore 1995 visit, District Six Museum, Cape Town.
1995: Visual Arts Teacher, Build a Better Society (BABS), Cape Town.
1994: Film Technician, Nautilus Film Studio, Cape Town.
1994: Temp Cartoonist, South Newspaper, Cape Town.
1994: Storyboards and Rendering, Berry Bush, Cape Town
1985 – 1994: Assistant Make-up, Display Forms, Cape Town.

Other Involvement

2010: Produced The Lion and the Elephant 01:00 animation, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
1992: Member, South African Publishers’ Association, Cape Town.
1991: Volunteer Visual Arts Teacher, Blackheath Primary School, Cape Town.
1988: Judge, Tygerberg Eistedfod, Cape Town.
Judy Jordan

Judy Jordan

b.1950, Harare, Zimbabwe; lives in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Judy Jordan paints images of the land, often scarred by human activity such as mining, pollution, and wars. Conversely, she is inspired by the generative qualities of nature, as symbolic of life, nourishment, renewal, and transformation. Judy Jordan was the first curator of the Carnegie Museum, Newcastle, a position she held for many years. Jordan has also been active as an art teacher as well as in cultural tourism, craft development and job creation programmes in KZN.

Education

1997: Honours History of Art (cum laude)

1984: Bachelor of Fine Arts

Solo exhibitions

2015: Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle, South Africa.

1990: Karren McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (opened by Dr Marion Arnold).

1985: Café Geneve, Durban, South Africa (opened by Andries Botha).

Group exhibitions

2010: Jabulisa 2010, The Art & Craft of KwaZulu-Natal, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

2009: Contemporary Reflections: New Art from Old, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

2006: Jabulisa 2006, Natal Arts Trust, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

1998: (With Brendon Bell), Bayside Gallery, Durban and Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg (opened by Andrew Verster).

1996: Jabulisa The Art of KwaZulu Natal, Natal Arts Trust, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

1995: Artists invite Artists Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa.

1995: Women’s Image of Men, KZNSA Gallery, Durban.

1993: (With Janet Purcell), NSA Gallery, Durban (opened by Prof. Terry King).

1993: Momentum Life Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa.

1992: Flowers and Things Exhibition, NSA Gallery, Durban.

1992: Natal Route Exhibition, Lorna Ferguson Gallery, Johannesburg.

1991: Biennale 4, Natal Arts Trust.

1989: Natal Arts Trust Exhibition – Merit Award.

1988: Human Rights 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

1988: (With Lola Frost), NSA Gallery, Durban (opened by Prof. Terry King).

1987: Natal Arts Trust Exhibition.

1987: Contemporary landscape Exhibition, NSA Gallery Durban; and Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

1986: Paper Exhibition, NSA Gallery, Durban.

Employment

1991-2015: First Curator of Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle, South Africa. Expanded the Municipal art collection from 20 to 380 pieces. Established various art museum policies and established a Board of Trustees. Fundraised for collection, workshops and outreach programmes. Motivated and raised funds for extensions to the existing Gallery. Funds utilized for architectural drawings of a new Art Gallery building. Co-ordinated and curated numerous temporary exhibitions and community events.

2000-2002: Craft mentorship programme with Embocraft.

1985-1991: Private Art School & taught Matric syllabus to St Dominics’ pupils.

1981-1985: Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Accountant.

1975-1981: National Museums & Monuments Council – Secretary & Research Assistant.

1972-1975: Financial Assistant, UDC.

1969-1972: Working holiday in Europe.

Memberships

1986 – present: Board Member of Natal Arts Trust.

2000 – 2015: Member of Amajuba Tourism Forum.

1996 – 1999:  Member of National Arts Council.

1986 – 1991: Member Arts Council.

1983 – 1987: Chairperson of Newcastle Art Society.

Collections

Durban Art Gallery.

Empangeni Art & Cultural Museum.

KwaZulu Natal Provincial Administration.

KwaZulu Natal Museum services.

Margate Art Museum.

Museum de Stadshof, Zwolle, Netherlands.

Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.

Other activities

Organised and coordinated more than 60 workshops for unemployed people.

Initiated “Isiphethu” an empowerment group of women who today sell work nationally and internationally.

Represented local craft at two International Trade Fairs at the invitation of Dept. Trade & Industry.

Co-ordinated and curated numerous temporary exhibitions and community events.

Researched and initiated local township cultural tours.

Developed teachers’ workshops to assist with the Art & Culture curriculum.

Presented papers at various SAMA regional conferences.

Links

Tersia Gopi, 'Judy Jordan opens up her art studio to Newcastle', Northern Natal News, 22 March 2017. 

 

 

 

 

Judy Seidman

b. Connecticut, USA, 1951. Lives in Johannesburg. 
Judy Ann Seidman’s art flows from the twinned beliefs that “culture is a weapon of struggle”, and that “the personal is political” – an approach to culture born in Africa’s liberation struggles. Her paintings, drawings and graphics explore personal and collective experience, emotion, belief and vision; speaking of and to people’s movements, from national liberation and worker struggles to feminism and HIV activism.

Education

1973: Master of Arts, Fine Art (Painting), University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, USA
1971: Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2019: Drawn Lines, Museum Africa, Johannesburg.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2005: Na Cidade, Jazz, Luanda, Angola.
1984: Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana.
1980: Judy Ann Seidman and Pitika Ntuli, Pentonville Gallery, London.
1980: Judy Ann Seidman and Pitika Ntuli, Institute of Education Gallery, University of London, London.
1976: Hemingway Art Gallery, New York.
1976: Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone.
1975: Exhibition of paintings and drawings, British Council, Lusaka, Zambia
1974: Exhibition of paintings and drawings, National Library, Lusaka.
1973: Masters of Fine Art exhibition, University of Wisconsin Art Gallery, Wisconsin.

Workshops, Arts Facilitation & Policy

2016 - present: Facilitator, Feminist Women's Art Network, One in Nine campaign, South Africa.
2008 - 2012: Facilitator, One in Nine advocacy media and Naledi Ya Meso art-making and gender workshops, CDP Trust, Johannesburg.
2007 - present: Facilitator, Khulumani Art Healing and Heritage Workshops, South Africa.
1996 - 1997: Member, Curriculum 2005 Arts and Culture Learning Area Committee, Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, South Africa.
1996: Consultant, “Respect for Cultural Diversity” curriculum, South African National Defence Force civic education programme, South Africa.
1995 - 1996: Member, Arts Education Policy Task Team, Gauteng Ministry of Education, South Africa.
1994 - 1995: Sub-committee member, Visual Arts of National Education and Training Forum curriculum development, South Africa.
1994 - 1995: Chairperson, Strategic Management Team, Gauteng Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts, Culture, South Africa.
1993: Curriculum development, Dakawa Arts and Crafts school, Grahamstown.
1991 - 2001: Consultant, Curriculum Development Project for the Creative Arts, Johannesburg.
1988 - 1990: Cultural Studies curriculum development, Foundation for Education with Production, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
1985 - 1989: Graphics editor and training supervisor, Mmegi wa Dikgang, Botswana.
1978 - 1983: Teacher, Thokoza School, Mbabane, Swaziland
1978 - 1983: Teacher, Maru-a-Pula Secondary School, Gaborone.

Publications

2017: Drawn Lines, an autobiography of Judy Ann Seidman, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, California.
2013: Justice, redress and restitution: Voices of the widows of the Marikana Massacre, Khulumani Support Group, Johannesburg.
2011: Naledi Ya Meso Handbook, Curriculum Development Project Trust, Johannesburg.
2011: Art as Advocacy Handbook, Curriculum Development Project Trust, Johannesburg.
2010: One Woman, Sketches/diaries, letters/notes: Fragments from Anita Parkhurst Willcox, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, California.
2007: Katorus Stories, South African History Archive, Johannesburg.
2007: Red on Black, the story of the South African Poster Movement, STE Publishers, Johannesburg.
2005: Hlanganani Basebensi: A brief history of COSATU, STE Publishers, Johannesburg.
2005: Every worker a union member, COSATU Collective, Johannesburg.
2002: My Comrade with AIDS is still my Comrade, COSATU Collective, Johannesburg.
2001: The Social Protection handbook, COSATU Collective, Johannesburg.
1993: Fighting AIDS, National Progressive Primary Health Care Network booklet, South Africa.
1991: Images of Defiance: Protest Posters from South Africa 1980 - 1990, Raven Press (Written together with Posterbook Collective), Johannesburg.
1990: In Our Own Image, (textbook for  secondary school level Cultural Studies for Southern Africa), FEP, Gaborone.
1979: Bayezwa: Paintings and drawings of Southern Africa, South End Press, Boston.

Writing

2016: National liberation is necessarily an act of culture: Visual arts of the armed struggle in Southern Africa, paper given at Conference Politics of the Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
2013: Khulumani! Talking to the concept, structure and outcomes of Khulumani Support Group’s Art, Healing and Heritage Workshops, paper by Judy Seidman and Nomarussia Bonasa for Khulumani Support Group at Dance for Life conference.
2010: The Art of National Liberation; Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble retrospective, Thami + Medu exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Jacana Press, Johannesburg.
2010: Education for liberation, Chimurenga magazine, Cape Town.
2006: Drawn Lines: Belief, Emotion, and Aesthetic in the South African Poster Movement in Phillippa Hobbs, ed. "Messages and Meaning: the MTN art collection", MTN, Johannesburg.
2004: South African Art Historians, with Jillian Carman, paper on South African Poster Movement, Durban.
1997: Imagery and AIDS in South Africa, paper presented to Images and Empire conference in Yale University, Connecticut.
1992 - 1994: Africa South and East, Johannesburg.
1986 - 1989: Medu Art Ensemble Newsletter, Gaborone.

Other

2006 - 2008: Curator, Poster Collection, South African History Archive, Johannesburg.
2004: Specialist advisor, Images of Defiance, MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg.
1995 - 1997: Executive member, Arts and Culture Alliance, Gauteng.
1994 - 1995: Executive member, Arts Educators Association, Gauteng.
1981 - 1985: Member, Medu Art Ensemble, Gaborone.

Collections

Botswana National Museum and Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
Mayibuye Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
MTN collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
Museum of Revolutionary Art, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Museum of Modern Art, New York
South African History Archive, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nkoali Nawa

b. 1965, Goldfields, South Africa. Lives in Gugulethu, Cape Town
Nkoali Nawa started out as a gold mineworker, before moving into art-making. In doing so, he obtained a diploma and degree in fine art from Technikon Free State. His drawing and painting works depict the daily struggles of impoverished South African communities, the harsh working conditions of miners, as well as the intergenerational distress caused by the colonial structure of migrant labour systems. 

Art Education

2001: National Diploma, Fine Arts and B. Tech, Technikon Free State, Bloemfontein.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2008: Space, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town.
2002: Close-Up, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2020: Latitudes Art Fair Online, The Creative Block by Spuer Arts Trust, online.
2018: Rituals, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town; Bashu Uhuru Freedom Festival, Johannesburg.
2007: Group Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2006: Group Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
2004: Heike Davies, Nkoali Nawa and Committee Work, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town.
2004: Exhibition, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg
2003: The Brett Kabbel Art Awards, Cape Town International Convention Centre
2003: Members' Exhibition, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town
2003: Group Exhibition, SA National Gallery Annexe, Cape Town.
2002: South African International Trade Exhibition (SAITEX), Johannesburg.
2002: Group Exhibition, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg.
2002: Outdoor gallery (Billboard), Johannesburg.
2002: Group Exhitbition, Fordsburg artists studios, Johannesburg.
2001: Group Exhibition, DC art gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Group Exhibition, Spaza art gallery, Johannesburg.
1998: Annual student art exhibition, Central university of technology, Bloemfontein.
1995: Annual student art exhibition, Central university of technology, Bloemfontein.

Group Exhibitions (international)

2013: Our Daily Work/ Our Daily Lives, Michigan State University Museum (MSUM), East Lansing.
2006: L’atelier, Renault Show Room, Paris.
2004: The ID of South African Artists, Fortis Circus Theater, Scheveningen.

Artist Residency

2018: Nando's Creative Exchange, Cape Town.
2002: Bag Factory Visiting Artist, Johannesburg, & Greatmore Art Studios, Cape Town.

Awards

2003: National Finalist, The Brett Kebble Awards, Cape Town.

Commissions

Murals: Mineworker Development Agency; National Union of Mineworkers South Africa (NUMSA); Coca-Cola South Africa.
Book illustrations and covers: Human Rights Media Centre; Keels Publisher.
Report Covers: Labour Research Service; Ditikini Investment Company annual&nbsp.
Artwork: Community House, Salt River.

Other Work

1996 – 2003: Art Lecturer and teacher, various schools and institutions, South Africa.

Texts

Kelodi Senong, Nkoali Nawa‘s Visual Aesthetics of Social Reportage and Dialogues with Being-Black-in-the-World, ASAI, 2021.

Mpumelelo Melane

b. 1962, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Mpumelelo Melane is a sculptor, who carved wooden figures in his spare time while working in posts as a labourer. After receiving chisels and some career advice from a man called Tom Ungerer in the 1980s, Melane joined Imvaba Association, and later went to Cape Town, where he trained at the Community Arts Project (CAP). Melane’s sculptures are largely portraits and figurative representations of people.

Education

1990: Training Art Course for cultural workers, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1988: Imvaba Arts Association.
1980s: Fine Arts, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth (incomplete)

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

1992: Visual Arts Group travelling exhibition, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1992: Grahamstown Arts Festival, Grahamstown.

Group Exhibitions (International)

1990: Touring exhibition, United Kingdom and Denmark.

Other

2003 - 2005: Art Facilitator, Siyaya Centre for Young Arts
1990: Delegate, Zabalaza Festival, London [Created mural at the Institute of Contemporary Arts with other South African delegates (among them Thami Jali, Sophie Peters, Louise Almon, Helen Sebidi).]

Links

https://www.facebook.com/mpumimelane/

Thami Jali

b. 1955, Lamontville, Durban.
Thami Jali is a painter, ceramicist and printmaker. As an alumni of the Rorke’s Drift Art & Craft Centre, he helped to re-establish the ceramics studio for their 2004 re-opening. Jali’s subject matter is as broad as his skill set, engaging areas from political life, dreams and the surreal, to forms from nature. 

 


Education

1983 - 1984: Ceramics, Natal Technikon, KwaZulu-Natal.
1981 - 1982: Rorke's Drift Art & Craft Centre, Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2024: Mphendla Ndlela, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Art (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2014: Restless Spirt, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2007: Transformation, BAT Centre - Menzi Mchunu Gallery, Durban.
1998: Ungqofo Ulalele, BAT Centre - Menzi Mchunu Gallery, Durban.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2014: Retroactive, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Art (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2011: Three Parts More Harmony, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2011: Amandla, BAT Centre - Menzi Mchunu and Democratic Galleries, Durban.
2010: Amandla, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2009: A Known Heritage, Kizo Art Gallery, Umhlanga.
2004: InniBos Kunstefees, Nelspruit.
1995: Africus: Johannesburg Biennale ’95, Johannesburg
1995: 38 Essex Road, NSA Gallery, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
1994: National Arts Trust Exhibition, BAT Centre, Durban.
1992: Thupelo Workshop Exhibition, Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Gallery, Johannesburg.
1991: Thupelo Workshop Exhibition, Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Gallery, Johannesburg.
1990: Vulamehlo – Open Eye,  Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1989: Five Friends, (Paul Sibisi, Mpolokeng Ramphomane, Sfiso kaMkame, Gordon Gabashane and Thami Jali), Natal Society of Art (NSA) Gallery, Durban.
1989: Objects of Utility, Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Gallery, Johannesburg.
1988: Friends of Freedom, Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Gallery, Johannesburg.
1980 - 1982: Festival of African Art, University of Zululand, Richards Bay.

Group Exhibitions (International)

1997: New Dehli Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli.
1993: ART OMI, International Artists Workshop, New York.
1990: Art from South African Townships, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London.
1983: Art Communication, Indingilizi Gallery, Mbabane.

Workshops & Residencies

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg.
1997: Artist in Residence, Edgewood College, Wisconsin.
1990: Zabalaza Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

Awards

1982: First Prize - Sculpture, Festival of African Arts, University of Zululand, Richard's Bay.

Other

2017: Judge, PPC Imaginarium Awards, South Africa.
2004: Re-established the ceramics studio, Rorke's Drift Art & Craft Centre, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
2000: Ceramic tile project, Matsulu Art Centre, Mpumalanga. 
1991: Trustee, Community Mural Projects, Cultural Trust, Durban.
1987: Pottery and sculpture teacher, Mofolo Art Centre, Soweto.
1983 - 1984: Founder, Art Communications, Natal Technikon (now Durban University of Technology).

Public collections

Artists for Human Rights Trust
Caversham Press
Campbell Collection, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
Phansi Museum
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
The Constitutional Court, Johannesburg.
University of Zululand, Richard's Bay.

Russel Hlongwane, Thami Jali, Mphendla Ndlela, (KZNSA Gallery, 2024).
Sithembiso Sangweni, Thami Jali, artist on a mission, (ASAI, 2018).
Thami Jali, Recalling Community Mural Projects, (ASAI, 2018).
Jenny Stretton, Thami Jali: Restless Spirit, (ASAI, 2018; originally published in 2014 by Durban Art Gallery).
Jenny Stretton, Thami Jali talks to curator Jenny Stretton about his vision for the future, (ASAI, 2018; originally published in 2014 by Durban Art Gallery).
Bren Brophy, Terry-Anne Stevenson reflects on an artistic life shared with Thami Jali, (ASAI, 2018; originally published in 2014 by Durban Art Gallery).
Witty Nyide, Directions to find Thami Jali (ASAI, 2018; originally published in 2014 by Durban Art Gallery).

KZNSA Gallery, Thami Jali: Mphendla Ndlela (2024).

Michael Barry

b. Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1954.
Michael Barry is an artist and educator. He studied fine art at the University of Cape Town and is currently pursuing a PHD at Nelson Mandela University where he heads up the Department of Arts and Culture. Barry was an active member of the Imvaba Arts Association. He continues to be involved in numerous cultural development projects around Port Elizabeth. 

Art Education

2012: Masters, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.
1981: Bachelor of Art, Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1985: Higher Degree, Education, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2017: Just Painting, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth.
2016: #TheVoices, National Arts Festival, Albany Museum, Grahamstown.
2015: Art State, Gallery NOKO, Port Elizabeth.
2014: Redefinition of the status quo – collector’s edition, Gallery NOKO, Port Elizabeth.
2013: Collective 2013, artSPACE Gallery, Durban.
2012: A4 Ideas, Boomtown, Port Elizabeth.
1981: Young South African Photographers, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

Public Commissions

Route 67, Nelson Mandela Bay Arts Journey, Port Elizabeth.
2013: Kite boy and Skipping girls, Helenvale Urban Renewal Programme, Thusong Centre, Port Elizabeth.
The Sunday Times 100 year celebration public art work, Queenstown.

Links

Michael Barry's website

Zamani Makhanya

b. 1959. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Zamani Romeo Makhanya is an artist and educator. He studied fine art at the University of Fort Hare before embarking on a teaching career at the Ntuzuma College of Education. Makhanya’s works give poetic form to ideas that relate to African culture, spirituality and aesthetics.


Sophie Perryer, 10 years, 100 artists – Art in a Democratic South Africa, (Bell Roberts, Cape Town, 2004), 218-221

10 years , 100 artists - Art in a Democratic South Africa - Zamani Makhanya

 

Hayden Proud, ReVisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art, (UNISA Press Pretoria, 2006), 328-329

Revisions - pg 328 - 329 - Zamani Makhanya

Art education

1985: Honours degree in Fine Art and Higher diploma in Education, University of Fort Hare, Alice

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2004: Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg.
2003: The unfolding spirit, African Art Centre, Durban.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2004: Ibuya, Maison De L’Outre-Mer, Nantes, France.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2017: Sea Level, Artspace, Durban.
2017: Rainbow Exhibition, Duotone Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: Duotone, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town.
2013: Inkunzi Emanxeba: The legacy continues…, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2011: “DON’T/PANIC", Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2005: The 5 M's Exhibition, The African Art Centre, Durban.
2004: Ties That Bind, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2003: Thwasa, 3rd Eye Vision collective, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Art Gallery, Durban.
2002: Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Untold tales of magic: Abelumbi, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2001: Masked/Unmasked, 37 Craft Avenue, Durban.

Workshops & Residencies

2006: Thupelo Regional Workshop, Durban Cultural and Documentation Centre, Durban.

Other

2018: Judge, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) Members' Exhibition, Durban.
1986 - 1999: Art Teacher, Ntuzuma College of Education, KwaZulu Natal.

Links

Revisions
South African History Online

Krishna Luchoomun

b. 1962, Mauritius.

Krishna Luchoomun is an artist, art lecturer and organiser from Mauritius. He is the co-founder of pARTage, an artist led art organisation working for the promotion of contemporary art in Mauritius.

 

Because of its colonial past, Mauritius is an island where different cultural groups pretend to live together. Since my early childhood, I have been exposed to different customs and traditions and this has helped shape my awareness of the world, of what it means to be human and of the innate need that most of us have to connect – physically, emotionally and spiritually – with other human beings and with the natural world. This sensitivity is at the heart of my practice. I use clothing not only as a basic material, but essentially as a means of artistic expression to revisit both slavery and indentureship to explore issues pertaining to Identity, multiculturalism and nationhood. And linking these to the reality of today’s world in relation to life, culture, economy and politics of Mauritian society.

Art Education

Currently Senior Lecturer at M.G.I. School of Fine Arts
1990 M.A. in fine arts, Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, former USSR
Part-time lecturer, Visual Arts Department, Mauritius Institute of Education
Part-time lecturer, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mauritius
Part-time lecturer, IVTB School of design, Mauritius

Solo Exhibitions

2015 My Soviet years, French Cultural centre, Mauritius
2010 Doors, Imaaya gallery, Mauritius
2006 KULER RUZ&lt, gallery, Mauritius
2004 Charles Gounod Gallery, Reunion
2000 Plantage Dookland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Alliance Française, Mauritius
1991 Eureka House, Mauritius
1990 House of Friendship, Leningrad, Russia

Group Exhibitions

2017 pARTage International Artists Workshop, French Cultural centre
2017 Artistes des Iles de L`ocean Indien, La Region, Reunion
2017 Third Dot, Long Beach Hotel, Mauritius
2017 PORLWI by Nature, Mauritius
2017 Geumgang Nature Art Center, South Korea
2016 Mother Earth, Father Sky, Tsukuba Art Centre, Japan
2016 Borderline, Granary, Mauritius
2016 WE- Architecture, Korean Cultural centre Delhi, India
2016 METAFORM; Rogers House, Mauritius
2016 PORLWI by People, Mauritius
2015 First Mauritius Pavilion 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
2014 ARTchipelago, IFM, Mauritius
2013 IKARU, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
2013 Offline, Portugal
2012 Thupelo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Triangle 30 years, New York, USA
2011 CBK Zuidoost gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 International workshop, AIFACS, India
2009 SADC meeting, Botswana
2008 Beijing 3rd Biennale, China
2007 insulART international exhibition, MGI, Mauritius
2006 Open Studios, Gasworks, London, UK
2006 Britto, Bangladesh
2005 2nd Biennale Beijing, China
2005 2nd East African Biennale, Tanzania
2004 pARTage International Artists Workshop, Mauritius
2003 Staedlijk Museum of Zwolle, The Netherlands
2003 Nicole Chabot and Krishna, Alliance Francaise, Mauritius
2003 Abiko Open Air exhibition, Abiko, Japan
2003 Latitude 2003, Municipality of Paris, France
2003 Karte postale, St Pierre, Reunion
2003 Modern Arts Museum, Windhoek, Namibia
2002 1st Triennial, Mauritius
2001 Slip Way Art Gallery, Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania
1999 International artists` workshop, Nida, Lithuania
1999 World Print Triennial, Chamalieres, France
1999 MOBAA Millenium exhibition, Mauritius
1999 Escale International Exhibition, Eureka, Mauritius
1999 MOBBA Sequences, Le Caudan, Mauritius
1999 African contemporary Art, Beijing, China
1997 9th Triennial, India
1995 Africus, Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa
1995 Uecker Class, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 World Prints Triennial, Chamalieres, France
1994 Werkhof gallery, Germany
1993 Bothnia Seascape, Oulu, Finland
1993 Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
1992 Biennial of Seychelles

Residencies & Workshops

1993 Seascape Symposium, Finland
1995 Uecker Workshop, Dusseldorf, Germany
1995 International Creole Festival, Reunion
1997 Gandhi Residential Artists Workshop, India
1998 Printmaking Workshop with H. Di. Rosa, French Cultural Centre
1999 Residential Workshop, Nida, Lithuania
2000 Printmaking Workshop, Reunion
2000 SADC Art and Crafts workshop, Namibia
2001 Thami Mnyele, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Raffiki International Artists` workshop, Tanzania
2003 Abiko Residential workshop, Japan
2004 pARTage Residential workshop, Mauritius
2005 2nd Beijing Biennale workshop, China
2006 Two Months residency at Gas works studios, London
2007 insulART workshop, Mauritius
2007 ESCALE 10 years later, Mauritius
2008 Britto international workshop, Bangladesh
2008 Beijing Biennale, China
2009 Indian diaspora workshop, Mauritius

Art Positions Held

2017 Head of International Jury, Seychelles Biennale
2016 International Jury Barclays, L`Atelier, Johannesburg
2011 International Jury Video Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003 Co-founder of pARTage (association of Mauritian artists), Mauritius
Art organiser, Mauritius Examinations Syndicate, Mauritius
Art examiner, Mauritius Examinations Syndicate, Mauritius
Member of Arts Panel at Curriculum Research Center, Mauritius

Collections

Museum of U.S.S.R Academy of Fine Arts, Russia
State House of Republic of Mauritius, Mauritius
Prime Minister`s Office, Mauritius
Municipality of Port-Louis, Mauritius
Airport of Mauritius, Mauritius
The British Council, Mauritius
Bothnia Seascape Fund, Finland
The municipality of Salazie, Reunion
Bank National of Paris, Mauritius
Lalit Kala Academy Fund, India
Mauritius Offshore Banking Activities Authority, Mauritius
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, France
Thami Mnyele Foundation, The Netherlands
Rafiki Foundation, Tanzania
Munich Re- Insurance (German Offshore), Mauritius
Avalon Golf Estate, Mauritius
Office of the president of India, India
International Financial Services, Mauritius
Mauritius Commercial Bank
Central Bank of Mauritius
Private Collections in France, Reunion, England, Russia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, India, The Netherlands, South Africa, Namibia, Belgium

Published Works & Critical Reviews

Salon d’Automne, France
Biennial of Seychelles, Seychelles
World Printstriennial, Chamalieres, France
World of Ex-Libris, Switzerland
Made in Mauritius, Germany
9th Trienniale, India
MOBAA, Mauritius
Artists of the World – Save the Children, Mauritius
MOBAA Millenium exhibition, Mauritius
Abiko 2003, Japan
Latitude 2003, Paris, France
pARTage workshop 2004, Mauritius
2nd Biennale, China
Art in Mauritius, Mauritius
Springerin, Austria
3rd Biennale, China
Ties, Mauritius
Venice Biennial

Kristin NG-Yang

Kristin NG-Yang

b. 1970 Shandong, China. Lives in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Kristin NG-Yang draws on her dual Chinese and South African identity to reflect on questions of migration, nature, agency and identity.

Art Education

Present: PhD, University of KwaZulu- Natal, KwaZulu-Natal.
2004: Master of Fine Art, University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal.
1991: Central Academy of Fine Arts (majoring in oil paint painting), Beijing. 

Solo Exhibitions

2017: Perceptions & Prejudices, The Other Room, Durban.
2016: Bird/Fish Solo Exhibition, Noeli Galley, Shanghai.
2016: Bird/Fish Solo Exhibition,National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa. 
2016: Bird/Fish Solo Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery & Rivertown Contemporary, Durban. 
2015: Kristin’s Solo Exhibition, Tamasa Gallery, Durban.
2014: Diary in South Africa, Noeli Galley, Shanghai.
2013: Living in South Africa, Noeli Galley, Shanghai.
2012: Interpretation, Alliance Francaise, Durban.
2008: Art works by Kristin Hua Yang, Fogolino Art Gallery, Trento, Italy.
2008: Art works by Kristin Hua Yang, Cassa Rurale di Pergine, Pergine, Italy.
2007: Nordic Forest, KZNSA Gallery, Durban.
2004: Submerged Mindscape, Tamasa Gallery, Durban.
2003: MAFA exhibition, Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 
2001: Drawing and oil paintings, Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

Group exhibitions

2017: Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg. 
2017: Bird/Fish studio I (with Rory Klopper), Bird/Fish Studio, Beijing.
2016: Zhishang - Kongjian, Bird Nest Art Center, Beijing, China
2016: Zhishang - Wanwei, Ban Space, Shanghai, China
2016: Zhishang - Zhishang, National Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
2015: Zhongshan Art Fair, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
2015: Female Art Exhibition, Naked Eye Gallery, Beijing, China
2014: LiRenWeiMei, ShangShang Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2014: Chufu, Yixing Art Space, Beijing, China
2014: ChongGouYiXiang 1, Yi Space, Beijing, China
2014: Exhale, Art Space Durban
2013: Sound From Africa, East Gallery, Guanlan, China
2013: The 2nd Chinese Young Artist selected Prints Exhibition, 798 Art Zone, Beijing & Qingdao art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2013: What Lies Beneath, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2013: Consider China, Art Space Durban, South Africa.
2013: Chun Guang Za Xian, Yi Gallery, Beijing, China.
2012: Across the parallel lines (with Diane Victor), East Galley, Guanlan, China
2012: Lady of the Forest, Inky cuttlefish Studio, London, UK
2012: Art on Paper, Nairobi National Museum, Kenya
2011: Emerging Artist from South Africa, Pangyongjie Studio, Beijing, China
2010: 10 Years, 10 Artists, Tamasa Gallery, Durban
2010: Art exhibition, St Paul secondary school, London, U.K.
2010: Red Eye, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2010: Woman's Day, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2010: Jabulisa 2001, Tatham Art Gallery, Travelled to Durban, Margate, Empangeni, Eshowe Museum and Newcastle
2009: Cultural Landscapes, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg
2008: CVA exhibition of staff and graduate students, Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
2008: Annual members exhibition, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2007: Pure and Simple, duet exhibition at ArtSpace, Durban
2007: Intel Exhibition of Art Works, Johannesburg and Cape Town
2007: Woman's Day, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2007: A4 from Durban, ArtSpace Berlin, Germany
2007: Annual members exhibition, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2006: Renault Artists: Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg; Renault exhibition hall, Port Elizabeth & Renault exhibition hall, Paris, France

Scholarships

2002: Top 45 Postgraduate Student Scholarship, University of KwaZulu-Natal
2010-2012: Rita Strong Scholarship
2001-2003: Rita Strong Scholarship

Avhashoni Mainganye

Avhashoni Mainganye

b. Venda, Limpopo, South Africa, 1957. Lives in Thohoyandou.


Avhashoni Mainganye is an artist, art educator, cultural activist and poet, and has been instrumental in promoting artistic activity in Limpopo. Initially producing art with strong socio-political overtones, his work has become increasingly abstract,  with questions of African culture interfacing with broader humanist concerns. 


 
 

Art education

1981-82: Rorke's Drift Art & Craft Centre, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
1985-89: Funda Art Centre, Soweto, Johannesburg.

Solo Exhibitions

2010: Journey, iZArte, Zutphen, Netherlands.
2008: Journey, Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2000: Coker College, North Carolina, USA.
1992:  Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane.

Group Exhibitions

2019: The Mahlakasela collection, Henry Ponder Gallery, South Carolina.
2016: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
2015: Art Santa Fe 2015, Sante Fe Convention Center, New Mexico.
2015: Opening the Drawers: A Limited Edition Print Pop Up Shop, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg.
2015: Venda Tsonga Craft Art Exhibition, Madi a Thavha Lodge, Limpopo.
2014: Work on Paper, Trent Gallery, Pretoria.
2011: Collages, African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands.
2007: 30 Years of Soweto Printmaking, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2006: Avashoni Mainganye and Sandile Zulu – New Works, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg.
2004 - 5: Soul Of Africa: Art as a Cornerstone for Development, The Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg.
2001: Golelanwali, Alliance Francais, Johannesburg. 
1995: Spring Time in Chile, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
1995: Africa95, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1994: Artists for Peace, Geneva.
1989: Women, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
1988: VhaVenda / Shangaan Wood Sculptures, South African Association of Arts, Pretoria.
1987: National Museum & Gallery, Gaborone.
1985: BMW Tributaries, Africana Museum in progress, Johannesburg.
1985: Artimo (Art in Motion), Market Gallery, Johannesburg.

Workshops & Residencies

2016: Transvisions in Wood, Karoo.
2008: International AIDS Conference, Polokwane Art Gallery, Polokwane.
2007: Triangle workshop, Isle of Tanera Mhor, Scotland.
2006: Greatmore Studios residency, Cape Town.
2005: Venda Land of Legends, Venda & Tsonga wood carving workshop, Netherlands.
1999: Craft/Art, Joint wood carving workshop with Graham Jones, Grahamstown Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
1995: Spring in Chile cultural exchange programme, Chile.
1994: Koma, collaboration with Stefano Kofmehl of Locarno, Switzerland.
1990: Soweto Action, Art Residency, France & Switzerland.
1986 - 2006: Thupelo Art Workshops, Cape Town.

Awards

2020: ACT Lifetime Achievement award for Visual Arts.
2016: MEC Achievers Award, Limpopo Department of Arts and Culture, Polokwane.
2008: Top five, Sasol Wax Art Awards, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2007: Top ten, Sasol Wax Art Awards, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Achievers Award, Limpopo Mapungubwe Arts Festival, Polokwane.
2004: Finalist, Brett Kebble Awards.
1994: Participant, FNB Vita Awards.
1985: Solomon Reuben and Ann Winer Bursary.

Other

2014: Host, the Ubuntu Trust, Thohoyandou Arts & Culture Centre, Thohoyandou.
2009: Selection panel, Department of Arts and Culture's Arts & Craft Awards.
2004 - 5: Selection panel, Soul of Africa exhibition, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg.
2001: Art teacher, printing, Feniks International 20th Anniversary, Belgium.
2000: Art teacher, painting and printing at Coker College, North Carolina
1999: Arts facilitator, Thohoyandou Arts and Culture Centre, Thohoyandou.
1985 - 2006: United States - South Africa Leader Exchange Program (USSALEP)

Public collections

IBM South Africa, Cape Town.
MTN, Johannesburg.
Anglovalal Mining Company, Johannesburg.
Fur Volkerkunde Museum, Hamburg, Germany.
Totem Meneghelli Gallery, Johannesburg.
Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane.
University of Zululand, Richards Bay.
University Limpopo, Mankweng.
University of Venda, Thohoyandou.
The Ghandi Foundation, London.

Links

2008 International AIDS Conference. Polokwane Art Gallery. Limpopo, Polokwane
Avhashoni Mainganye at the AVA, November 2008
The Neglected Art Tradition, South African History Online
David Krut Projects
Dolla Sapeta

Dolla Sapeta

b. New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1967.

Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta is a painter, writer, and teacher. Dolla Sapeta explores issues of alienation and dehumanisation in the contemporary urban environment.

 

Art Education

2016: Master of Arts in Creative Writing, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
1999: Drawing Certificate, University of South Africa.
1999: Fine Arts National Diploma, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.
1998: Foundation Art Studies, Intec College. 

Solo Exhibitions

2013: Bloodline v Deadline, Storefront Art Space, Pittsfield, USA.
2013 - 2014: Midlife Colour, Atheneum Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth. 
2009: New World Other, Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: Detached, Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Shifting Centers, Green Gallery, Grahamstown.
2000: Makwerekwere, The Nativ Kollektive Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
1998: Fragile Society, Cuyler Street Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.

Group Exhibitions - International

2019: Nando’s and Spier Trust, 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, London.
2014: Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Treviso, Italy.
2015: Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Rome.
2015: Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. 
2016: The Art of Humanity, The Pratt Institute, New York.
2014: Liminal Reclamation, Old School, New York.
2008: Frolunda Culturhus, Goteborg, Sweden.
2008: Netherlands Art Fair, Amsterdam.
2002: 4th Pan-Africanist Circle of Artists (PACA) Biennale, Lagos.

Group Exhibitions - South Africa

2018: Collective Ink, GFI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth. 
2017: Collector’s Edition II, Gallerie Noko, Port Elizabeth.
2017: The Spier Creative Block, GFI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth. 
2016: The Circus and the Zoo, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2015: Dialogue, William Humphrey Art Gallery, Kimberley.
2014: Here Be The Dragon, Underculture Contemporary Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2014: Art Action with Ian von Mementry in Aid of St Francis Hospice, GIF Contemporary Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2014: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial Exhibition, The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth.
2014: A Shade of Pink, Gallerie Noko, Port Elizabeth.
2014: Xpressions: 2014 Biannual Fine Art Exhibition, ART Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2014: 4:40, ART Gallery, Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown National Festival, Grahamstown.
2014: Food for thought, ART gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2013: ART Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2012: National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2007: Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: Surface Tension, Heidi Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2003: "Window-dress puppet master versus institution chicken boy", Cuyler Street Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2001: Pty. L.T.D., EPSAC Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.

Workshops & Residencies

2015: “Singaphi” Environmental Public Art Community Project”, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth.
2013: IS183 Berkshire Residency Program, Massachusetts.
2012: Spoken Word and Music Mamela Festival, poetry participant, The Port Elizabeth Opera House, Port Elizabeth.
2011: Storefront Projects Art Residency, Massachusetts.
2011: Art Omi international Residency program, New York.
2008: KV Konstskola, facilitated workshop, Göteborg, Sweden.
2008: Magisterelever Konst Hogskolan,  Valand Academy, Göteborg, Sweden.
2008: Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, facilitated workshop, Cape Town.
1994-95: Gerard Sekoto annual children’s day workshop, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth.
1991-1993: NACOSA Aids Awareness workshop, Port Elizabeth.

Other

2019: Author, Skeptical Erections. Deep South: South Africa.
2013: Judge, ABSA L’atelier National Arts Competition, Johannesburg.
2010: Public sculpture, Donkin Reserve, Port Elizabeth.
2006: Public mosoaic, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality commission, New Brighton Township, Port Elizabeth. 
2006: The Tower, a public collaboration of mosaic design between Ayanda Mji and Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta, eMbizweni Public Square, Port Elizabeth.
2003: Judge, ABSA L’atelier National Arts Competition, Johannesburg.
2002: Co-Curator, Changing Attitudes, PACA Biennale, Pendulum Art Gallery, Lagos; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
2001: Commissioned by the Department of Road Safety to execute murals in Port Elizabeth, Graaf Reinet and Uitenhage.
1999: Co-executed a monumental wall at the Grand Hotel, Port Elizabeth.
1996: Commissioned by the Department of Health, Aids Awareness mural, Brista House building, Port Elizabeth.

Collections

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.
Pan African Circle of Artists (PACA), Enugu, Nigeria.
Omi International Art Centre, New York, USA.

Links

www.dollasapeta.com

Tom Penfold, Review: Physicality and Distortion in Dolla Sapeta’s ‘Skeptical Erections’ (Africa in Words, 2020)
Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta, Skeptical Erections. (Deep South, 2019).
Nkule Mabaso, Questions of Abjection in Two Paintings by Mxolisi “Dolla” Sapeta, (ASAI, 2018).

 

Louise Almon

b. 1958, Port St. Johns, South Africa; lives in Kalk Bay.
Louise Almon is a painter who studied art at Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town. She was a founder member of the Imvaba Arts Association and worked from the Lilian Road Studios in Johannesburg for fifteen years. Her paintings are figurative with expressive qualities.

Education

1977 – 1980: Bachelor of Arts, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1975 – 1976: School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2017: Present in Absence, Candice Berman Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2017: Turbine Art Fair, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
2016: Turbine Art Fair, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
2016: That Art Fair, The Palms, Cape Town.
2016: KKNK Arts Festival, Candice Berman Gallery,  Oudtshoorn
2015: Turbine Art Fair, Candice Berman Gallery, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
2015: Cache III, In Toto Gallery, Johannesburg.
2014: Turbine Art Fair, Candice Berman Gallery, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
2014: Hodgins House, Johannesburg.
2012: In Toto Gallery, Johannesburg
2010: Decade, Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg.
2009: Lilian Road Studios, Johannesburg.
2009: Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2008: Cuyler Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2007: Stewart Gallery, Johannesburg.
2006: Stewart Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Generations, Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg.
2002: Facets, Carol Lee Fine Art, Upstairs @ Bamboo, Johannesburg.
2002: Allsorts, Carol Lee Fine Art, Upstairs @ Bamboo, Johannesburg.
2002: Canvas and Clay, Admiralty Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
1998: King George VI Art Gallery, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
1997: Pro Arte exhibition, Robertson.
1989: Imvaba Arts Exhibition, Korsten Trade Union Offices, Port Elizabeth.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2016: START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2002: Contemporary South African Art, London.
2010: Myerson Art, London.
1990: Zabalaza Arts Festival, London.
1990: Art from South Africa,  Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.

Residencies

2012: Cite International des Arts, Paris.

Public Works

1994 – 1996: Aids murals, commissioned in Port Elizabeth
1991: The Worker and Yellow Crane, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University permanent collection, Port Elizabeth.
1991: Memories of 1985, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University permanent collection, Port Elizabeth.
1985: Mural for Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU).
1985: COSATU emblem.
1985 – 1994: Various murals and banners as part of the  Imvaba Arts Mural Grouper. (These are now part of the Mayibuye Collection of the University of the Western Cape, housed at the Robben Island Museum.)

Links

http://www.louisealmon.co.za/
Ennri Kums

Ennri Kums (Henry Coombes)

b. Mauritius 1948. Lives in Port Louis, Mauritius.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ennri Kums (aka Henry Koombes/ Coombes) is an artist and illustrator. A self-taught artist, Ennri Kums deals directly with themes of sexuality and death in his works, with a strong homo-erotic focus. He is the creator of the Adventures of Tikulu, a series of books aimed at children. 

Art Education

Self-educated

Exhibitions

2018: D’Éros Et d’Épines, Artelier, Port-Louis, Mauritius.
2015: Eros Thanatos, Imaaya Art Gallery, Mauritius.
2010: Sensored, Imaaya Art Gallery, Mauritius.
2000: Millennium Exhibition, Mauritius.
1998: Sequences 3, MOBAA Caudan Waterfront, Mauritius.
1998: Art in the world, Paris.
1998: Seychelles Biennale, Seychelles Islands.
1998: L’Art Dans Le Monde, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Paris.
1997: New Delhi Triennial, India.
1997: Suites Africaines, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris.
1996: Un incomparable de Kums, La Fabriks, Marseille.
1996: Novante Nova Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1996: L’Etoile Noire, Salle Clément Ader, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.
1993: Art Contemporain en Francophonie, Port-Louis, Mauritius.
1993: Centre Wallonie, Bruxelle, Belgium and Paris.
1992: Esta Novo Gallery, Tokyo. 
1992: Maison Créole d’Eureka, Mauritius.
1992: The Group of Nine, Port Louis, Mauritius Hill, Mauritius.
1989: Maison Créole d’Eureka, Mauritius. 
1988: Black Bull Gallery Fulham Road, London.
1986: Hélène de Senneville Gallery, Mauritius.
1985: Cadre Noir, Reunion.
1984: Cultural Center Charles Baudelaire, Rose-Hill, Mauritius

Theatre

1995: Concours de Beats (with Dominic Larrivaz), Merlan Theater, Marseille, France
1995: Musical comedy Mokko, Whiting Theater, Marseille, France
1994: Musical comedy Mokko (sets, costume, actor), Port Louis Theater, Mauritius

Residencies

1997: La Fabriks, Marseille, France.
1996: Rotterdam, Netherlands.
1995: Marseille, France.

Childrens books

1998-present: Creator and illustrator a series of children’s books entitled The Adventures of Tikulu

Links

Ennri Kums, Henry Koombes: rainbow colour

Getting tangled up in roots: 'Enri Kums' and the making of a creole artist. 

Arvin Ombika, 2017. Shared History, Shared Identity: Politics and Homoeroticism in the Avant-garde Paintings of Bhupen Khakhar (India) and Ennri Kums (Mauritius)

Sultana Haukim

b. 1974, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.

Sultana Haukim’s paintings and installations focus on issues affecting women in society such as female identity, sexual abuse and the dowry system.

Art Education

2003: Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Fine Art with Education, Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius.
1998: Teacher’s Diploma, Visual Arts, Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius.

Artist Statement

For the past few years my works have been focused on issues related to the life of women in our modern society. Being a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother, I have experienced the inequalities and prejudices towards woman and have better understood the situation of woman in the world. My status as a female artist gives me the possibilities to express and explore this closer universe of women.

My work also addresses the social and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary societies. Issues about female identity, femininity, concepts of beauty, female genital mutilation, oppression, sexual abuse, abortion and the dowry system, are among the different issues that I have been analyzing in my artwork.

I use mannequins as a metaphor of the female body, being seen as an object to please. From lifeless and dumb, my intervention on them opens doors to various interpretations; colour, matter, out-cuts, assemblage, optical play are some of the ingredients which give the mannequins an alternative look to keep the eye alert and the mind awakened so as to create meaningful change for the future of women.

Solo Exhibitions (Mauritius)

2011: Le Suffren Hotel, Port Louis.
2005: L’Alliance Francaise, Port Louis.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2013: WG Punt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Group Exhibitions (Mauritius)

2017: State House, Mauritius.
2016: Porlwi by people Festival.
2016: Metaform.
2015: Porlwi by light Festival.
2015: Bridge, Eco/ art Festival.
2014: Exhibition to commemorate the arrival of Indians in Mauritius, theme Glory of Bihar.
2012: Performance night, Institut Francais de Maurice.
2011: Renaissance, Institut Francais de Maurice.
2010: Festival L’Univert, Institut Francais de Maurice.
2009: Dodo Project , pARTage Gallery.
2007 & 2011: Salon d’ete, SSR Art gallery, Port Louis.
2006: All African Rotary Summit exhibition, Sugar Beach hotel.
2005: Second Triennial of Contemporary Art of the Indian Ocean.
2003 - 2017: Participation in the yearly Salon de Mai, Mahatma Gandhi Institute.
2002: First Triennial of Contemporary Art of the Indian Ocean.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2015: Mauritius Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy.
2013: Expoesie, Saint Malo, France.
2012: Thupelo International artists’ exhibition, Greatmore Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2011: International artists exhibition, AIFACS, New Delhi, India.
2010: 4th International Biennale of Beijing, China.
2009: African Artist’s Network Exhibition, Kenya.
2008: International Artists exhibition, Theertha Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2007: East African Biennale , Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Workshops

2017: International workshop, Migration, identity and belonging, pARTage, Mauritius.
2014: International workshop, ARTchipelago, pARTage, Mauritius.
2012: Thupelo Wellington 2012, Wellington, South Africa.
2011: International workshop, AIFACS, New Delhi, India.
2011: International Workshop,Art in the Forest, pARTage, Mauritius.
2008: International Artist Workshop, Theertha Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2006: Printmaking Workshop by Grete Marstein (Norway), Mauritius.
2006: ARTerre’ Workshop, pARTage, Mauritius.
2005: Second International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Mauritius.

Residencies

2016: Tsukuba Artist in Residency, Father Sky, Mother Nature, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
2013: Thami Mynele Foundation Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2012: Residency/workshop with the French artist Veronique Bigo.

Awards

2007: First prize, Painting competition, Municipality of Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.
1996: Silver prize, Salon des Jeunes Talents Prometteur, L’institute pour le developpement des Arts de l’Ocean Indien, Port Louis, Mauritius.

Catalogues

2017: Migration, Identity and Belongings, pARTage.
2015:  56th Biennale of Venice, Italy.
2015: Pavilion of Mauritius, From One Citizen You Gather an idea, 56th Biennale of Venice.
2014: ARTchipelogo.
2012: Renaissance Exhibition.
2010: Commemoration of the Battle of Vieux Grand-Port.
2010: 4th International Biennale of Beijing, China.
2007: 1st Salon D'été.
2007: East Africa Art 2007 Biennale.
2006: Salon de Mai.
2006: ARTerre, Landscape Workshop, Mauritius.
Art for APRIM, (Parents’ association for the rehabilitation of mentally handicapped children).
1996: Salon des Talents Prometteurs 96.

Paul Sibisi

b. 1948, Umkhumbane, Durban.
A former student at Rorke’s Drift, long-serving art teacher and seasoned political and cultural activist, Paul Sibisi has been an influential figure in Durban’s art scene for decades. His paintings and prints provide cutting commentary on social injustice, with an emphasis on the affirmation of dignity of ordinary people. His aesthetic is both expressive and graphic, realist and poetic.

Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, (Thames & Hudson London, 1988 ), 18-25, 72-75

Art of the South African Townships - Gavin Younge

 

E.J De Jager, Images of Man: Contemporary SA Black Art & Artists, (Ciskei: Fort Hare University Press in association with Fort Hare Foundation, 1992 ), 26-33

Images of Man - pg 26 - 33

 

Hayden Proud, ReVisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art, (UNISA Press Pretoria, 2006), 250-251

Revisions, Paul Sibisi - pg 250, 251

 

Education and Training

1987: Art Education and Graphic Techniques, Fircraft College, Birmingham.
1973 - 74: ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal.
1968: Ndaleni Art School, KwaZulu-Natal.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2003: Revisiting Myself, African Art Centre, Durban.
1981: Exhibition, African Art Centre, Durban.
1973: Exhibition, Bojo Gallery, Durban.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

1987: My People are Our People, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2016: Beyond Binaries, Durban Art Gallery and KZNSA Gallery, Durban.
2006: ReVisions, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2002: Abelumbi: Untold tales of magic, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1990 - 19991: Art from South Africa South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1989: Five Friends (Paul Sibisi, Mpolokeng Ramphomane, Sifiso kaMkame, Gordon Gabashane and Thami Jali), fka Natal Society of Arts (NSA), Durban.
1987: Exhibition, Paul Mikula and Associates, Durban.
1986: Contemporary African Art: Selected works from the Pelmama Permanent Art Collection, Gallery 21, Johannesburg.
1985: Tributaries, Africana Museum in Progress, Johannesburg.
1984: Weddings — members exhibition, fka Natal Society of Arts (NSA), Durban.
1984: African Arts Festival, University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa.
1983: African Arts Festival University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa.
1982: African Arts Festival University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa.
1982: My environment — members exhibition, fka Natal Society of Arts (NSA), Durban.
1981: Members exhibition, fka Natal Society of Arts (NSA), Durban.
1981: Exhibition of Black Art as Represented in the Campbell Collections of the University of Natal, Durban.
1981: African Arts Festival, University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa.
1981: Haenggi Foundation National Art Competition Exhibition, Gallery 21, Johannesburg.
1980: African Arts Festival University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa.
1980: Members exhibition, fka Natal Society of Arts (NSA), Durban.
1976: Urban African Art, Norman Dunn Gallery, Hilton.
1974: Annual Exhibition, University of Fort Hare, Alice.
1974: Exhibition (with Vuminkosi Zulu), fka Natal Society of Arts (NSA), Durban.
1973: Art SA Today, Durban Art Museum, Durban.
1973: Black Expo, African Art Centre, Durban.
1970: Annual Exhibition, University of Fort Hare.
1968: Exhibition, Metropolitan Church Hall, Pietermaritzburg.

Group Exhibitions (International)

1990 - 19991: Art from South Africa, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
1982: International Print Biennale, Bradford.
1984: International Print Biennale, Bradford.
1982: Art Toward Social Development: An Exhibition of SA Art, National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone.

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

1987: Fellowship, British council.
1984: Grant, Operation Crossroads Africa.
1981: First Prize, Art on the Mole '81 Competition.
1981: Fourth Prize, Haenggi Foundation National Art Competition.
1980: Third Prize, Art on the Mole '80 Competition.
1973: Graphic art award, Black Expo '73.
1973 - 1974: Bursary, South African Institute of Race Relations, (for study at ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift).
1970: Award, University of Fort Hare Art Exhibition.
1968: Bursary, Department of Bantu Education, (for study at Ndaleni Art School).

Teaching

1975 - 77: Art Teacher, Kwathambo Combined School, Amanzimtoti & Mzuvele High School, KwaMashu, KwaZulu-Natal.
1969 - 71: Art Teacher, Applebosch Training College, Oswatini, KwaZulu-Natal.

Commissions

1986: Portfolio for Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC) - now The Playhouse Company.

Collections

Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Killie Campbell Collection, Durban.
Norval Foundation, Cape Town.
Pelmama Art Collection
University of Fort Hare, Alice.
University of Zululand, Richards Bay.

Brenton Maart, Paul Sibisi and the Art of Protest, (ASAI, 2018).
Kolodi Senong, The visual narratives of Paul Sibisi,(ASAI, 2018).

Jill Trappler

Jill Trappler

Jb. 1957 Benoni, South Africa. Lives in Cape Town.

Jill Trappler has been a consistent exponent of non-representational art since the 1980s, as an artist and teacher. A stalwart of the Thupelo Project and Greatmore Artists Studios, Jill Trappler has been an influential presence in the South African art world and the Triangle Network. Jill established the Philani weaving project and the Intle cooperative project in Site B and Philippi, Cape Town. 

Art Education

1975- 1979: Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg.
1975- 1978: Bachelor of Arts, UNISA, South Africa.

Workshops

2020: Canvas Workshop Residency with Jill Trappler, Lionel Davis and Garth Erasmus, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
2015: Triangle Workshop, New York.
1997-2014: Thupelo, various regional and local workshops.
1996: Thupelo, Johannesburg [participant].
1981-84: Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions

2019: Reverberations, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2019: Stoep, Gallery South, Muizenberg.
2016: Cape Town Art Fair, Seippel Gallery, Cape Town.
2016: That Art Fair, Cape Town.
2016: Gallery Mojo, Dubai.
2016: Kim Sack Gallery, Johannesburg.
2016: Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2016: Irma Stern Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: Canteen Gallery, Arts on Main, Johannesburg.
2012: Knysna Fine Arts Gallery, Knysna, Western Cape.
2010: Casa Labia Gallery, Muizenberg.
2009: Irma Stern Gallery, Cape Town.
2008: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2008: Joe's Choice, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2007: Bag Factory gallery, Johannesburg.
2007: Studio exhibition, Orange Street Studios, Cape Town.
2006: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: Kwa-Zulu Natal Association of Arts gallery, Durban.
2003: Bellville Art, Cape Town.
2003: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2002: Bag Factory, Johannesburg.
2001: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2000: Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, KZN.
1999: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1995: Prime Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1995: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1990: Gallery International, Cape Town.
1990: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (Local)

2019: Nel gallery, Cape Town.
2018: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: Greatmore Street Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: Africa Nova.
2018: Artvark.
2017: TAG: Celebrating Greatmore and Thupelo.
2016: Cape Town Art Fair.
2016: Bag Factory, Johannesburg.
2016: Turbine art fair, Johannesburg.
2016: The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: Artvark gallery, Cape Town.
2015: An Awareness of trees, Art Sauce, Cape Town.
2015: Thupelo workshop exhibitions.
2014: Casa Labia Gallery, Cape Town.
2013: Imibala Gallery, Somerset West, Western Cape.
2013: Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2013: Johannesburg Art Fair, Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg.
2012: Cape Town, Casa Labia Gallery.
2012: Vulnerable Landscape, Prince Albert Festival, Western Cape.
2012: Johannesburg Art Fair, Seippel Gallery.
2011: Johannesburg Art Fair, Seippel Gallery.
2010: Divisions: Aspects of South African Art 1948 – 2010, SMAC, Stellenbosch.
2010: Waters/Vasia, Cape Town; Durban Art space Gallery; Bag Factory.
2010: End Conscription Campaign, Stellenbosch, Spier Gallery.
2010: These four walls, Cape Town.
2010: Greatmore Street Gallery, Cape Town.
2008: Abstract South African Art from the Isolation Years: Part 3, SMAC, Stellenbosch.
2008: Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg.
2007: Thupelo workshop exhibitions.
2005: Thupelo workshop exhibitions.
2004: Strangers,Cape Town.
2004: Time, Memory, Desire, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
2002: The Mythic Image, ART B, Cape Town.
2001: Brain storm, The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2001: 3/3, The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Spirit of the place, The Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1996: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
1991: Newtown Gallery, Johannesburg.
1990: Thupelo workshop exhibitions.
1988: FUBA Gallery, Newtown, Johannesburg.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2015: Salem, New York.
2011: Waters/Vasia, Finland.
2009: Lessedra Contemporary Art Projects, Bulgaria.
2009: 7th British International Mini Print exhibition, England.
2008: Lessedra Contemporary Art Projects, Bulgaria.
2008: Busan Biennale, Korea.
2007: Lessedra Contemporary Art Projects, Bulgaria.
2004: Strangers, New Zealand.
2004: Strangers, Canada.
2002: Spirit of the place, Wales.
1999: Workshop exhibition, Kampala.
1998: Munich Book Fair, Munich.

Teaching and Lecturing

2015: Summer School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2009: ArtSauce Studios.
2014: Summer School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2013: Part-time lecturer Michaelis Art School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2012: Summer School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2011: Philani employment project.
2010: Drawing project, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town.
2010: Summer School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2009: Summer School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2008: Orange street open studios, Cape Town.
2006: Occupational Therapy Department, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.
2003: Orange street open studios, Cape Town.
2005: Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2000 to 2004: Summer School, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2000: Zurich Workshop for Peace movement, Zurich.
2000: Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1998: Tatham Gallery Workshop for local artists, Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
1981 to 1984: Private studio and Community Art Project, Cape Town.
1977-1976: The Federated Union for Black artists.
1977-1976: Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg.
1977-1976: Johannesburg School for Autism, Johannesburg.
1977- 1976: Johannesburg, Newtown Indian primary school.

Coordinator

2015: Thupelo Visual Art Workshop Exhibition Auction, Cape Town.
2015: An Awareness of Trees, Art Sauce, Cape Town.
2014-2015: Thupelo Art Projects, Cape Town.
2010-2012: Group Exhibition, the Spanish Ambassadors’ Residence, Cape Town.
2007: Triangle Africa Arts Trust conference, Cape Town.
1998: Trans figurative, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1995: Launch, Greatmore street Studios project, Cape Town.
1986: Thupelo International Art Workshop Project, Cape Town.
1980: Co-founder, Thupelo Cape Town workshops, Cape Town.

Consultancy

2015-2016: The Assembly, a Thupelo initiative for the Triangle network in Cape Town.
2014-2015: Re looking, Echo shelter project, Cape Town.
2010: Philani employment project, Cape Town.
2009-2010: Echo shelter project. Cape Town.
2009: Coral, crocheting project.
2009: Real stories gallery website; HIV in the SADAC region.
1997: Switzerland for Pro Helvetia; studio exchange programs.
1991: Cape Town Exhibition coordinator, Valkenburg hospital at UCT.

Research

2007: Appointed to attend a donors meeting in Amsterdam, Arts Collaboratory.
2007: Research and interviews for book about Bill Ainslie.
2006: Documentary video on GMS and Thupelo.
2005: Research and interviews for book about Bill Ainslie.

Studio Employment

2008: Philani nutrition clinic, Greatmore Street Studios, Cape Town.
1998: Philani nutrition clinic, Greatmore Street Studios, Cape Town.
1996: Facilitator, De Lorentz Clinic, Cape Town.
1995: Facilitator, De Lorentz Clinic, Cape Town.
1995: Established art studios at Valkenburg hospital, Cape Town.
1987: Printmaking Employment project, Crossroads, Cape Town.
1981: Hannes Hares, Weaving Studio, Cape Town.
1981: Philani Nutrition Clinic, Crossroads and Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
1980: Established the Intle weaving co-operative, Crossroads, Cape Town.
1980: Facilitator, The Care Village, London.
1976: Professional weaver for Peter Solaris and Helen de Lieu.
1975: Professional weaver for Peter Solaris and Helen de Lieu.
1978: Occupational Therapy, Baragwanath hospital, Soweto.
1977: Occupational Therapy, Baragwanath hospital, Soweto.
1976: Occupational Therapy, Baragwanath hospital, Soweto..

Committees

2007-2014: Board member, Bag Factory Studios, Johannesburg.
2009: Chair, Africa region Commonwealth Foundation awards.
2007: Selection panel, Commonwealth foundation awards.
2002: Board Member, the National Arts Council.
1996-2009: Trustee and founder member, Greatmore Street Studios, Cape Town.
1996- 2007: Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town.
1988-on going: Coordinator, the Thupelo workshops, Cape Town.

Collections

South African National Gallery (SANG)
Vodacom
SABC
Investec
Nandos
University of Cape Town
Spier Foundation
Creative blocks

Publications

2014: Polly Savage, Robert Loder, John Picton and Anthony Caro (eds.), Making art in Africa 1960–2010, Lund Humphries, London.

Links

https://www.jilltrappler.co.za

Ann Gollifer

Ann Gollifer

b. 1960, Guyana, Lives in Gaborone, Botswana. 

Ann Gollifer is a contemporary artist from Botswana, a painter, printmaker, photographer and writer.  Gollifer draws on her South American, British and Botswana heritage, and their shared histories of conquest and colonialism. The complex entanglements of history, place, identity and belonging are are central to Gollifer’s practice.

Education

1983: Master of Art, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh.

Exhibitions (solo)

2023: A Sum of Days, Ed Cross Fine Art London
2020: CARBO ANIMALIS, Guns and Rain Gallery, Johannesburg.
2015: OMANG? – Who are you?, Sophie Lalonde Art, Gaborone.
2012: Branded, The Frame Gallery, Gaborone.
2011: Living on an Horizon: A tribute to Bessie Head, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2010: What am I doing here? Ke Dirang Ha?, Bicha Gallery, London.
2009: Goddesses and Super Heroes, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2006: Linhas De Sangue, Territories of the Heart, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo.

Exhibitions (group)

2024: Decade: 10 Years of Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2023: ARCO LISBOA Art Fair, Lisbon, Portugal with Guns and Rain Johannesburg
2022/23: Investec Art Fair Cape Town with Guns and Rain Johannesburg
2021: 1-54 London, with Guns and Rain Johannesburg
2020: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Guns & Rain, Cape Town. 
2020: Difficult Women, Gaborone Museum, Gaborone. 
2019: Love Is …, The BKhz Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018: Also Known As Africa (AKAA), Guns & Rain, Paris.
2018: Cape Town Art Fair, Guns & Rain, Cape Town.
2017: All Your Secrets, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.
2017: Omang, AVA Gallery, Cape Town.
2017: Art Africa Fair, Cape Town.
2016: Turbine Art Fair, LL Editions and Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.
2015: Under an African Sun, with Leo Hassaris, London.
2015: Turbine Art Fair, LL Editions and Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.
2015: Turbine Art Fair, LL Editions and Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.
2008: Word, The Monument, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2008: Dumbo,Open Studio, Triangle Workshop, New York.
2005: Bienal 05 TDM, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo.
2003: Abale, Lusaka, Zambia.
2003: Womanifesto, Procreation-Postcreation, Bangkok, Thailand.
2003: 9th Le Donne Ridono, Biennale a cura del Centro Docementazione Donna di Ferrara, Italy.
2002: Monomotapa, The Bag Factory Artist Studios , Johannesburg.
2001-2002: Hoche Koche (multimedia event, coproduced with Steve Dyer), HIFA, Harare; The Dance Festival, Avignon, France; The Grahamstown festival; and Dance Umbrella, Wits Theatre, Johannesburg.
2001: Thapong International Artists Workshop exhibition, Gaborone, Botswana.
2001: Thupelo International Artists' Workshop exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa.
2000: Three Women Perspectives, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Windhoek and Gaborone.
1997: Botswana Live, The Commonwealth Institute, London; and Stockholm.
1995: Botswana Live, The Commonwealth Institute, London; Chicago; and Washington.
1995: The Mbile International Artists Workshop exhibition, Lusaka, Zambia.
1993: 5th Le Donne Ridono, Biennale a cura del Centro Docementazione Donna di Ferrara, Italy.
1993: Thapong International Artists Workshop exhibitions, Gaborone, Botswana.
1993: Botswana Live, The Commonwealth Institute, London.
1991: 4th Le Donne Ridono, Biennale a cura del Centro Docementazione Donna di Ferrara, Italy.
1991: Thapong International Artists Workshop exhibition, Gaborone, Botswana.

Residencies & Workshops

2018: IASPIS Residency, Stockholm.
2008: Triangle, New York.
2002: The Bag Factory Artists Studios, Johannesburg.
2001: Thapong, Botswana
2000: Thupelo, South Africa.
1998: MBILE, Zambia
1993: Thapong, Botswana
1991: Thapong, Botswana

Public collections

The Sainsbury Africa Galleries, The British Museum, London.
The Triangle International Art Workshops, New York.
The Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg.
The National Museum, Gaborone.
The Thapong International Art Workshop, Gaborone.
The Mbile Art Collection, Lusaka.
Botswana Life Insurance Limited.
Penrich Insurance Brokers, Gaborone.
The Bank of Botswana Fine Art Collection, Gaborone.
The Michaelis Art Library, Johannesburg.

Publications by Ann Gollifer

2012: Gollifer, Ann (ed.), Concept: A forum for creativity.

2011: Gollifer, Ann adn Egner, Jenny (ed.), I don't know why I was created. DADA, Coex'Ae Qgam, Eggson Books, Gaborone, 2011. 

2009: Gollifer, Ann (ed.), Urban Camouflage, Street safaris, Africa e Mediterraneo, Vol. 3-4. Numner 09.

2005:  Gollifer, Ann (ed.), Transitions catalogue for the exhibition presented by The Africa Centre from the collection of Robert Loder of the Triangle Arts Trust

2004:  Gollifer, Ann (ed.), The Nata Baobab, Botsalano Press, Gaborone. 

Publications on Ann Gollifer

2014: Polly Savage (ed) Making Art in Africa

Links

www.anngollifer.com

The Botswana Gazette - Ann Gollifer shows at Sophie Lalonde Art

Sunday Standard - Ann Gollifer’s ‘Omang’ Opening Exhibition: A Night of Art and Poetry

Khumo Sebambo, Ann Gollifer: Seeking pathways to home, (ASAI, 2020). 

 

Faith47

b. 1979, Cape Town. Lives in Los Angeles, USA. Faith XLVII (previously Faith47) is a street and studio-based artist who works with a wide range of media.  Her approach is explorative and substrate appropriate – from found and rescued objects, to time-layered and history-textured city walls and their accretions, to studio prepared canvas and wood. Her murals can be found in many cities in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.

Solo Exhibitions

2023: CLAIR – OSCUR, Musée des Beaux-arts, Nancy, France.
2023: CLAIR – OSCUR, Daynsz Gallery, Paris, France.
2021: CHANT, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town. 
2018: Elixir, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami.
2015: AQUA REGALIA, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York. 
2014: Aqua Regalia, London, UK
2013: Fragments of a burnt history, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg.
2009: Epitaph, Mrego, Brussels. 
2008: The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, Atm Gallery, Berlin.
2008: The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, The Woom Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Group Exhibitions - International

2023: CO\LAB 5, Torrence Museum, California, USA.
2021: ‘The Land War’ Installation, MUCA Museum, Munich, Germany.
2021: Foundation, Group Show, Heron Gallery, San Fransisco, USA.
2020: One World, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami. 
2020: Unprecedented Times, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vienna.
2019: 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cory Helford Gallery, Los Angeles.
2019: Together, KP Projects Gallery, Los Angeles.
2019: Conquête Urbaine, Calais Museum of Fine Art, Paris. 
2019: Veni, Vidi, Vinci, Fluctuart, Paris.
2019: Tàpia, B-Murals, Barcelona. 
2019: Capture the Street, River Tales, Germany.
2019: We Rise, Los Angeles, USA.
2019: Beyond the Streets, New York City.
2019: Women in Street Art, Bernard Magrez Foundation, France.
2019: Art Miami, Miami.
2019: Art Basel, Miami. 
2018: One Way Through, Heron Gallery, San Francisco. 
2018: Women in Street Art, The Bernard Magrez Foundation, Paris. 
2018: True Will, Chins Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018: Moniker Art Fair, New York and London.
2018: Art Miami, Fabien Casteneir Gallery, Miami.
2018: Art Basel Miami, Miami.
2017: Urban Currents, Gallerie Kirk, Denmark.
2017: Magic Cities, Munich, Germany.
2017: the UrbanArt Biennale® , UNESCO Voelklinger Huette World heritage site,  Germany.
2017: Homeless, Void Projects, Miami.
2016: XX: A moment in time, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2016: Freedom as Form, Wunderkameren Gallery, Milan. 
2016: PM10, Urban Nation Museum, Berlin. 
2016: Agitprop, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 
2014: Artscape , Malmoe, Sweden.
2014: Forest for the trees mural festival, Portland.
2014: Rencontres Australes d’Imaitsoanala, Antananaraivo, Madagascar.
2014: A study of Hair, Backwoods Galley, Melbourne.
2014: Redux , Inoperable Gallery, Vienna.
2014: Outdoor Urban art festival, Rome, Italy.
2014: Wywood walls, Art Basel, Miami.
2013: Anniversary Group Show ,White Walls Gallery, San Fransisco.
2013: Memorie Urbane Contemporary Festival, Gaeta, Italy.
2013: Escape the Golden Cage , Vienna, Austria.
2013: XII. Into the Dark, Unit44, The Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle.
2013: Scupltura Viva International Symposium, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
2013: DOS, Toronto.
2013: Women on the walls, Jeffrey Deitch and Wynwood Walls, Miami. 
2013: Beyond Eden, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
2013: Wall Therapy, New York. 
2013: Wooster Collective 10 Year Anniversary Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York. 
2013: Nuart Festival, Stavanger, Norway.
2013: Avant-Garde Urbano Festival, Tudela de Navarra, Spain.
2013: Los Muros Hablan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 
2012: Antenna Garden, Rtist Gallery, Melbourne.
2012: Carbon Event, Melbourne.
2012: Warrington Museum, London.
2012: Herzensbrecher, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin.
2012: Kulturhuset , Stockholm.
2012: Wynood Walls, Miami.
2011: Urban Painting, Milan.
2011: MSA Gallery, Paris.
2011: Urban Mural Project, Greece. 
2011: Gossip Well Told, Second Edition, Warrington Museum, London.
2011: City Leaks Festival, Cologne.
2011: Inner Walls, Milan.
2011: Les murs litinerrance, Paris.
2011: Gossip Well Told, Blackall Studio, London.
2011: Visual Intervention, Rochester.
2011: Archetypes, View Art Gallery, England.
2011: Artmosh, Munich.
2011: Wuppertal Museum, Germany. 
2010: Moniker Art Fair, London.
2010: Stroke03 Art Fair, Berlin.
2010: Escape 2010, Veinna.
2010: Biennial, Sao Paulo.
2010: Urbanus International Mural Project, China.
2010: Focus10, Switzerland.
2010: Le Salon Du Cercle De La Culture A Berlin, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin.
2010: Design For Humanity, Thinkspace, Los Angeles.
2010: or Those Who Live In It…, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven.
2010: Muao Project, A Coruna, Spain. 
2010: Paint Your Faith, Aayden Gallery, Vancouver.
2010: A Cry For Help, Thinkspace, Los Angeles. 
2009: The Generations, The Showroom Gallery, New York.
2009: Artmosh, Paris.
2009: Artotale International Mural Project, Lueneberg, Germany.
2009: No New Enemies , Mr Ego, Brussels. 
2009: Four, 34 Long Fine Art Gallery , Cape Town.
2008: 1st Internationale Graffiti Bienale, belo Horizonte, Brazil. 
2008: Anything Could Happen, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles. 
2008: Fatally Yours, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles.
2007: Crossover, Showroom Gallery, New York.
2007: Be Girl Be, Jntermedia Arts, Minneapolis.
2007: Pick Of The Harvest: Batch Four, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
2005: Subglob, Orebro, Sweden
2005: Go Gallery, Amsterdam

Group Exhibitions - South Africa

2020: Staring Straight to the Future, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2020: PINK, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg. 
2020: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town. 
2019: On Main Road, Constitution Hill Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, South Africa 
2019: FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg.
2018: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town. 
2017: Dislocation, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2017: Invisible Exhibition, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg.
2017: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2011: Outside, 34 Long Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Cool Stuff, 34 Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. 
2010: Nothing Is Everything, Word Of Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Group Soup, Word Of Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: The Art Of The Living Dead, Baseline Studios, Johannesburg. 
2006: New Suburbia, Pretoria.
2006: Lines Of Attitude, South Africa and Kenya. 

Murals - International

2020: Y/our Vote, USA. 
2019: Universal Studios Indoor Artwork Commission, Los Angeles. 
2019: Dictator Art Installation, Columbia.
2019: United Labor Organization 100 Year Mural, New York City.
2019: Maya Angelou School Mural Upliftment Project, Los Angeles. 
2019: Mural Arts Large Mural Production, Philadelphia.
2019: Projection Mapping Mural, BLINK, Cincinnati. 
2019: RED, Mural Project for HIV Awareness, Lyon.
2018: Summit LA18, Los Angeles. 
2017: Artscape Festival, Sweden.
2017: Art Republic Mural Project, Jacksonville. 
2017: Art Council Public art intervention, New Orleans.
2017: Art Miami, Juxtapoz Clubhouse installation, Miami. 
2016: Cities of Hope Mural Project, Manchester. 
2016: Inter|urban Mural Project, Cleaveland. 
2016: Wynwood Walls, Art Basel, Miami.
2015: The Psychic Power of Animals Street Intervention, New York. 
2015: Dragon Tiger Mountain Mural Project, Nanachang, China.
2015: Pow Wow Taiwan, Taipei. 
2015: Ono’u Mural Project, Tahiti.
2015: Festival Mural, Montreal, Canada.
2015: Murals for Oceans Expedition Mural Project, Cozumel, Mexico.
2014: 5 Sector Mural Project, Glasgow.
2014: Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary Group Show, Paris.
2014: Djerbahood, Djerba, Tunisia.
2013: Pow Wow Mural Project, Hawaii.
2013: Upfest Mural Project, Bristol.
2013: MAUS Mural Project, Malaga, Spain.
2012: Mural Project, Tel Aviv.
2012: Aarhus International Mural Project, Aarhus, Denmark.
2012: Mural Project, Sion, Switzerland.
2012: Mural Project, Melun, France.
2012: Paris Free Walls, Paris.
2012: Wall Therapy, Mural Project, New York.
2012: World Open Walls, Miami.

Murals - South Africa

2017: Johannesburg Mural, Sandton. 
2016: 1200 - 900 BC, Cape Town, South Africa. 
2016: Unearth, Napier, South Africa. 
2015: Landfill Meditation Street Intervention, Johannesburg.
2015: Feet Don't Fail Me Now, Johannesburg. 
2014: A Study of Warwick Triangle at Rush Hour, Durban.
2015: Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem, Johannesburg, 2015.
2014: Harvest, Cape Town. 
2012: The Long Wait, Johannesburg.

Selected Publications & Links

Dave Mann, "CHANT: Faith XLVII’s public practice", Daily Maverick, April 22, 2020.

Ilana Herzig, "The Renegades Making Feminist Art In the Streets", Hyperallergic, October 31, 2019.

Petra Mason, "15 Young local artists that have wowed the world in 2019/", Times Lives, December 15, 2019.

Charu Suri, "Five Women Reinventing the Face of Street Art", Muse, August 8, 2018.

Liz Ohanesian, "This South African Street Artist Moved to L.A. to Explore the Politics of Being Human", LA Mag, April 17, 2018.

Brent Lindeque, "South African graffiti piece tops the worlds best list!', Good Things Guy, January 11, 2018.

Petra Mason, "Re-Mixing History: African Women Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017", Whitehot Magazine, December 2017.

Elizabeth Mccray, “Faith47”, Bliss magazine, April 2014

Ashraf Jamal, “Graffiti art: Faith 47,” Financial mail, April 23, 2014.

Brendon Bell-Roberts; Ashraf Jamal, “100 Good Ideas,” March, 2014.

Lisa van Wyk, “Faith47: Street Artist,” Mail & Guardian. 

Daisy Wyatt, “In search of a female Banksy: Aiko and Faith47 take on a male-dominated street art world,” The Independent, October 15, 2013.

Charlie Finch, “The Savage Street,” Artnet. 

Bsrat Mezghebe, “Faith47, Street Art and South Africa’s Contradictions,” CIMAMAG, October, 2013.

“Dal + Faith,” Very Nearly Almost Magazine, March, 2013.

Foadmin, “Faith47: Sea to Sea,” Fair Observer, December 26, 2012.

Andy Davis, “We Close Our Eyes to Stay Blind,” November 21, 2012.

“Interview with Faith47,” Dumbwall.

Matthew Krouse, “Streets ahead in the realm of public art,” Mail & Guardian, October 26, 2012.

“Faith47 (ZA),” Art Bastard.

“Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets,” September, 2011.

Nicholas Ganz, “Graffiti World," 2009.

Kiriakos Iosifidis, “Mural Art,” November, 2008.

Nicholas Ganz, “Graffiti Woman,” 2006.

 

Jarrett Erasmus

b. 1984, Cape Town. Lives in Johannesburg.

Erasmus works in various media, focusing on current collaboration while thinking about post apartheid realities and its affects on the social dynamics between communities in South Africa as well as the diaspora.


Education

2017  Masters in Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016  ZHdk Summer School programme, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 - 2010  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2005 - 2006  Design and Visual art Certificate, Arts and Media Access Centre (AMAC), Cape Town, South Africa
2003 – 2005  Cape Peninsula University of Technology Graphic Design

Projects and Exhibitions

2019  The Main Complaint, group exhibition, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
2018  Curatorial Care, Humanising Practices conference, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South
Africa
2018  Museum Dialogues conference, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, Namibia
2018  Kewpie, The Daughter of District Six, public art event in collaboration with Gay And Lesbian Memory in Action and District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2017  Panelist, Any Given Sunday presentation, African Art in Venice Forum, Italy
2016  Re(as)sisting Narratives, group exhibition, District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2016  Foundations and Futures, group exhibition, Bag Factory Arts studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016  Festival D’Art Urbain, Antanarivo, Madagascar
2016  Straatpraatjies, Burning Museum performance, Cape Town, South Africa
2016  Poetry Circle Nowhere workshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015  Empty Ghosts, Public Art project, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015  Artificial Facts: Boundary Objects, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany (Burning Museum)
2015  Objetos Frontera, CA2M, Madrid, Spain (Burning Museum)
2015  Addressing the Headquarters, presentation, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Burning Museum)
2015  Cover Version, Gallery MoMo, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2015  Fortunes Remixed, group exhibition. Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014  Manufractured, Burning Museum performance, Cape Town, South Africa
2014  Ubuntu Artist Exchange, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2014  Plakkers, group exhibition, Brundyn Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2014  Do It, Michaelis Gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2013  TO LET , Centre For African Studies gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
2013  Co-Curator, Till it Breaks, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2013  Currency and Curiosity, Joule City Incubator & Research Studio, Cape Town, South Africa
2012  Material Things, solo exhibition, Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2012  S A S, group exhibition, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011  Mural Painting project at Community House, Salt River
2010  Plures Tectonicus (Many Mansions), Graduate solo exhibition, Albany Natural Sciences Museum Shell Gallery, Grahamstown, South Africa
2006  Mural painting, Artscape Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa

Workshops and Residencies

2018  OpenLab: The Art of Making, artists residency, Richmond, South Africa
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2014  Thupelo Artist’s Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa
2014  Arts Aweh Ambassadors programme (facilitator), Cape Town, South Africa
2013  Resident artist, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Cyan Development Concepts creative development workshops (teacher), Cape Town, South Africa
2012  Visiting Artist Residency, Through the lens: Drawing workshop, NAFASI Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2012  Visiting Artist Residency, Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012  Artist's workshop, Thupelo, Cape Town, South Africa
2011  Participant and facilitator, Koekenaap artists workshop, Matzikama District, South Africa

 

Awards and Academic achievements

2013  Business and Arts administrative certificate
2012  David Koloane Award
2011  Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Painting), Masters Degree Scholarship

Experience

2017 - present  Sessional Lecturer, Visual Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014  Infecting the City Festival High Schools programme, South Africa
2013 – 2014  Researcher and Digital archivist, Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), Cape Town, South Africa
2010 – 2012  Facilitator, Cyan Development Concepts community arts and creative development workshops, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 – 2010 Intern, Artb Gallery, Bellville, South Africa

Assistant (N.R.F. internship), Visual Art undergraduate programme, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Production Assistant, VOLTA Art Fair, Art Basel, Switzerland
Board member, Thupelo Artists Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa

Nirveda Alleck

b. 1975, Mauritius. Currently lives in Mauritius.

Nirveda Alleck is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the psychology of human social life in public and personal spaces. In her paintings, she works with a combination of staged and studied portraiture, adding elements of fiction, or removing backdrops from otherwise hyperreal representations. In her three dimensional work, which studies a variety of objects and scenes, the centrality of human presence is always implied as a central point of interest.

Education

2012: Cultural Leadership Training, African Arts Institute, South African Centre for the Netherlands and Flanders, Cape Town.
2001: Master of Fine Art (MFA), Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
1997: Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts (Hons.), First Class, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (Mauritius)

2023: No Story is an Island, Caudan Arts Centre, Port Louis.
2020: De quel noirceur sont tes pensées, Institut Français de Maurice, Mauritius
2018: Divine Weapons, Imaaya Art Gallery, Vacoas-Phoenix.
2013: Select Works, Angsana Balaclava, Balaclava.
2012: Art Party, Henessy Park Hotel, Quatre Bornes.
2007: Présent Immobile, La Citadelle, Port Louis.
1998: Zilch And All, Max Boullé Gallery, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill.
2004: Duad, Max Boullé Gallery, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2019: Car, vois-tu, tu as droit d’être obscur, Cité internationale des arts Paris, Paris.

Group Exhibitions (Mauritius)

2016: Edge Effects, La Citadelle, Port Louis.
2016: Porlwi by Light, Company Garden, Port Louis.
2016: Metaform, Roger's House, Mauritius.
2015: Charles Beaudelaire exhibition, Helen de Senneville Gallery, Mauritius
2015: Parl’eau- Collaborative work with Katia Bourdarel during La Peau des Choses
exhibition, IFM, Mauritius
2015: Amnesia: 180th anniversary commemorating the abolition of slavery, Rabindranath
Tagore Institute, Mauritius
2014: Glories of Bihar, Rabindranath Tagore Institute, Mauritius
2014: Femlink- Feminin Plurielles, International Video Art exhibition, IFM, Mauritius
2013: La Belle Peinture II, Phoenix le Halles, Port Louis.
2012: We Have Lost The Way, Port Louis.
2010: The Landing of the Dodos, public, Quatre Bornes.
2010: 200 Years after the Battle of Grand Port, Commemorative Exhibition, Mauritius.
2009: Indian Diaspora International Exhibition, Mauritius.
2008: INTERLACE - Drawing Connections between SA, Finland and Mauritius, IMAAYA Gallery, Vacoas-Phoenix.
2008: Imaaya Group Exhibition, Imaaya Gallery, Vacoas-Phoenix.
2008: Omada, Live video performance.
2007: Liberté D’expression, Right Now! Exhibition, IBL Gallery, Port Louis.
2007: International Women’s Exhibition, Mahatma Ghandi Institute Gallery, Moka.
2005: 2nd Triennale of Contemporary Art, Mauritius.
2005: Salon de Mai, Mahatma Ghandi Institute Gallery, Moka.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2024: The Sun Never Sets II: More Than One Memory. Unit, London.
2019: Streams of Consciousness, Rencontres de Bamako -  Biennale Africaine de la photographie, National Museum of Mali, Bamako.
2017: Ethics in a World of Strangers: Nirveda Alleck and Eric van Hove, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York City.
2017: Tous, des sang-meles, Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Paris.
2016: Dakar-Martigny: Hommage À La Biennale D’art Contemporain, Le Manoir, Matrigny.
2016: Le Tour de Origines, Chapelle Saint Thomas des Indiens, Réunion Island.
2016: Kwe I Espas, Le Hangart, Réunion Island.
2016: We the People, Casablanca International Biennale, Cassablanca.
2014: Des hommes, des mondes, College des Bernardins, Paris.
2014: Where are we now?, Marrakech Biennale Parallel projects, Marrakech.
2014: African Artists: Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy (SFIP), Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, St. John's Wood, London. 
2014: Africa Utopia, Digital Africa: The Future is now, Southbank Centre, London.
2014: Analogue Eye: Video art from Africa, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2014: !Kauru, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria. 
2014: Des hommes, des mondes, College des Bernardins, Paris, France
2013: Origins of a new world tour, Made in India,  Reunion Island.
2013: Still Fighting Ignorance and Intellectual Perfidy, Ben Uri Gallery, London; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö.
2013: Art Warning the World, Klaus Guingand, online.
2012: One Colour Screening, La Cinematheque Quebequoise, Quebec.
2012: Dak'art African Contemporary Art Biennale, La Gare, Dakar.
2011: One Colour, Pfeister Gallery, Bornholm.
2011: To Africanize is to Civilize, Paris Photo OFF, Paris.
2011: Festival Africain d'Images Virtuelles Artistiques (FAIVA) Residency Exhibition, Center Soleil d'Afrique, Bamako.
2011: Migrant-C, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2011: One Minutes Africa Awards, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.
2011: FOCUS11: Contemporary Art Africa, Art Basel, Basel.
2011: Open Studio, Omi International Art Centre, New York.
2011: One Minutes Video Africa, Bamako.
2010: African Renaissance, World Festival of Black Arts International, Dakar.
2010: La Foire des Mascareignes, Le Port, Reunion Island.
2010: Dak'art African Contemporary Art Biennale, La Gare, Dakar.
2009: The Réunion Island Biennale of Art, Design, Création, Numérique et Immatérielle, Reunion Island.
2009: Vieme Jeux de la Francophonie, Beirut.
2009: African Renaissance: Africa is Back, Pan-African Art Festival, multiple venues, Algiers.
2008: 10th year Anniversary Raffle, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
2008: House Games Triennale, Anna Ruth and Juho Jäppinen's apartment, Jyväskylä.
2008: Tulipamwe International Artists Exhibition, Goethe-Institut Namibia, Windhoek.
2007: International Urban Workshop Exhibition, Thupelo, Cape Town.
2006 - 2007: Femlink International Video Collage, shown at venues worldwide, including Cinematic Lab, Bandung; Foundation of Contemporary Art, Montevideo; Cyber Arts Night Vision Festival, Massachusetts; Espace Dialogos, Cachan; Centre Videofemmes, Quebec and many more.
2006: Resident Artists Exhibition, Bag Factory Artists studios, Johannesburg.
2005: The 2nd East Africa Art Biennale (EASTAB), Dar es Salaam.
2005: International Painters Exhibition, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishek Gallery, Bangalore.
2005: Tomorrow Land, 11th Triennale India, New Delhi.
2003: Pond, Cochrane Street, Glasgow.
2001: Diplomatic Immunity, Times Square Gallery, New York City.
1999: Glasgow Art Fair, St Georges Square, Glasgow.
1999: Interim Show, Glasgow School Of Art, Glasgow.
1998: 6th Seychelles Biennial Of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Victoria.
1997: Graduate Exhibition, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1997: Preface, Centre For African Studies Gallery, Cape Town; Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.

Video Works


2011: They spoke different tongues, 2 channel, 15:00.
2011: L’Offrande, 01:00, (nominated for One Minutes Africa Prize).
2011: one color, 03:00.
2011: The return, 02:00, (commissioned by One Minutes Africa).
2009: Ephemeral, 08:00.
2008: Omada, video performance with music and dance, 08:00.
2007: Tragedy of a swing and a chair, 02:00.
2007: Histories, documentary, (commissioned by Right Now! Association, Mauritius).
2006: Power, 20:00.
2006: Perfect Match, video performance.
2005: Ravinal Man, 17:00.
2004: Counter Currents, synchronised video work.
2001: Gist, video with installation.

Collections and Commissions

Porlwi by Light Festival of Contemporary Culture, Mauritus.
Ministry of Arts and Culture, Mauritius.
Azuri Radisson Blue, Mauritius.
Okombahe Community, Namibia.
Lalit Kala Akademi, India.
Reinsurance Consultants, Mauritius & South Africa.
Holcim Cements, Mauritius.
Shields Mural Project, Peugeot Centre, Scotland.
Church House, Bridgeton, Scotland.
UCATT (Workers Union) March Banner, Scotland.
Isle of Arran Distillers, Scotland.
J.D.Weatherspoons Ltd, Glasgow and Edinburgh Branches, Scotland.
Hannibal (historic documentary), Channel 5, Wark Clements Productions, Scotland.
Citigate, Scotland.
McCabe Contemporary Art (Cecily Getty), South Africa.
Independent Outdoor Media, South Africa.

Catalogues


2021: African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Phaidon: London
2012: Dak’Art 2012: 10e`me Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Secretariat general de la biennale des arts, Dakar.
2011: FNB Joburg Art Fair 2011, Cobi Laubuscagne (ed), ArtLogic: Johannesburg.
2011: Migrant C, Nirveda Alleck (curator), Johannesburg.
2011: Fanzines, Focus Contemporary African Art, Basel.
2010: Dak’art 2010: 9ème Biennale De L'art Africain Contemporain, Secrétariat général de la biennale des arts, Dakar.
2009: Biennale Arts Actuels, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts: Reunion Island.
2009: 2009 Francophonie Games, Beirut.
2009: African Renaissance: Africa is Back, 2nd Pan African Festival, Zéhira Yahi (Arts and Culture Department), Algiers.
2009: Indian Diaspora International, Mahatma Ghandi Institut, University of Mauritus, Moka.
2007: International Urban Workshop Exhibition, Thupelo, Cape Town.
2007: Présent Immobile, La Citadelle, Port Louis.
2007: Art in Mauritius, Hans Ramduth (author), MGI Publication, Moka.
2007: 1st Salon d’Ete, National Art Gallery, Port Louis.
2006: Bag Factory Residents Exhibition, Bag Factory Artist Studios, Johannesburg.
2005: Tomorrow Land, 11th Triennale India, New Delhi.
2005: The 2nd East Africa Art Biennale (EASTAB), Yves Goscinny (author), La Petite Gallerie, Dar es Salaam.
2001: Diplomatic Immunity, UKwithNY Festival, New York City.
1998: 24 Artworks by selected South African Artists, McCabe Gallery Publication, Cape Town.

Awards and Prizes


2012: Emma Award for Arts and Culture, Bank One, Mauritius.
2011: FNB Art Prize Finalist, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2011: 'One Minutes Africa' Nominee, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.
2011: Francis J Greenburger Fellowship, Omi International Arts Centre, Ghent.
2011: Recipient, International Artist Scheme Grant, Ministry of Arts and Culture, Mauritius.
2010: Soleil d’Afrique Prize, Dak'art African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar.
2008: HIVOS Sponsorship, Tulipamwe International Artists Workshop and Exhibition, National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek.
2004: Selected for ‘1er Fond D’Aide au Développement du Film’, Mauritius Film Development Corporation, Mauritius. 
1999: Postgraduate Scholarship, Glasgow School of Fine Art, Glasgow.
1998: Most Promising Young Artist Award, 6th Seychelles Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Victoria.
1997: Dean’s Merit List, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1994: Edward Louis Ladan Bursary used for undergraduate studies in fine art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Residencies and Workshops

2011: Soleil d’Afrique Residency, Centre Soleil d'Afrique, Bamako.
2011: Omi International Artists Residency, Art Omi, Ghent.
2011: One Minutes Africa workshop, Centre Soleil d'Afrique, Bamako.
2009: Biennale Arts Actuels Residency, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Reunion Island.
2009: Vieme Francophonie Games Painting Workshop, Beirut.
2009: Indian Diaspora International Workshop, Mahatma Ghandi Institut, Moka.
2008: Tulipamwe International Artists Workshop, Goethe Institut Namibia,Windhoek.
2007: Artist in Residence, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
2007: Thupelo International Workshop, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town.
2006: Artist in Residence, Bag Factor Artist Studios, Johannesburg.
2005: International Painters Camp, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishek, Bangalore.
2004: Scriptwriting workshop with Mama Keita, Mauritus Film Development Corporation, Vacoas-Phoenix.
2001 - 2002: Artist in Residence, St Patrick’s Primary School, Glasgow.

Other Projects

Chair, Arterial Network, Mauritius Chapter, Port Louis.
Co-ordinator, The Landing of The Dodos public art project, Quatre Bornes.
Project Leader, Migrant-C: Mauritius Indian Ocean Artists Collective, Mauritus.

Professional Experience

2013: Visiting Lecturer, Experimental Video, Visual Art and Digital Arts, University of Mauritius, Moka.
2012: One Day Create, Outdoor Creative Art Classes, Casela Nature Parks, Black River.
2012: Visiting Lecturer, Critical Issues on Contemporary Art, Mahatma Gandhi Institute, University of Mauritius, Moka.
2011: Arts Consultant, Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site, Port Louis District.
2008 - 2009: Lecturer, Mauritius Institute of Education, Moka.
2006: Visiting Lecturer, Painitng, Mahatma Gandhi Institute, University of Mauritius, Moka.
2004 - 2008: Education Officer, Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Vacoas-Phoenix.
1998-1999: Community Arts Teacher, Coatbrigde Community Centre, Glasgow.

Mzuzile Mduduzi Xakaza

b. 1965, Maphumulo, KwaZulu-Natal; lives in Durban.
Mzuzile Mduduzi Xakaza’s landscapes draw on personal and collective histories of KwaZulu-Natal. The images respond critically to a tradition of colonial landscape painting that is underwritten by connotations of settler ownership and white authority, and thus Black dispossession. Rather than acting as a detached observer of the land, Xakaza portrays it from a position of belonging.

 

Education

2015: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), History, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2004: Post-Graduate Diploma, Museum and Heritage Studies, Universities of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape and Robben Island Museum, Cape Town.
2002: M.A. Fine Art, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1996: B.A. (Hons) History of Art, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
1992: B.A. Fine Art, University of Fort Hare, Alice.
1992: Higher Diploma in Education, University of Fort Hare, Alice.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2010: New Landscape paintings and drawings, African Art Centre, Durban.
2007: New Landscape paintings, African Art Centre, Durban.
2005: New Landscape paintings, The NSA Gallery, Durban.
2003: Landscape paintings, African Art Centre, Durban.
2001: Landscape paintings, drawings and graphic prints (MAFA portfolio), Tatham Art Gallery,
Pietermaritzburg.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2012: View, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Artists (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2012: Barbara Lindop at Home, Barbara Lindop's residence, Johannesburg.
2011: Barbara Lindop at Home, Barbara Lindop's residence, Johannesburg.
2011: Three Parts/ More Harmony, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2011: Who Am I….Ngingubani?, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2010: What We See: Reconsidering an Anthropometrical Collection from Southern Africa, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town.
2010: The Lie of the Land, Old Town House, Cape Town.
2010: People, Prints and Process: 25 Years at Caversham, Standard Bank Gallery,Johannesburg.
2009: A group exhibition, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
2008: 10th Anniversary Celebrations Exhibition, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
2007: Intel Promotional Exhibition, Sandton Square, Johannesburg.
2006: Renault Artists, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: RENAULT ART & CULTURE, Vehicle Showroom @ Gateway, Umhlanga.
2005: Art @ Home, Residence of Angie Bishop and Sandy Batchelor, Kloof.
2004: Summer, African Art Centre, Durban.
2004: Midlands Biennale, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2002-3: Untold Tales of Magic: Abelumbi, Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; TEACH Museum, Empangeni; Pretoria Art
Museum,Pretoria; William Humphrey Art Gallery, Kimberley; Margate Art Gallery, Port Shepstone.
2002: KZN Art teachers’ exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2001: Gordon Verhoef & Krause Art in the Park, Alexandra Park, Pietermaritzburg.
2001: Save the Ruth Prowse, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town.
2001: The Land exhibition, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
2001: University of Natal (Centre for Visual Art) Staff and Post-graduate students' exhibition, Johannes Stegmann Gallery, Bloemfontein.
2000-3: Break the Silence! HIV/AIDS Print Portfolio, Durban Art Gallery, Durban; BAT Centre, Durban; KwaMuhle Museum, Durban; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town; GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch; Gateway Cinema Nouveau Gallery, Durban; MTN, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg.
2000: Natal Arts Trust Biennale 2000, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2000: Yivume Wethu: A Visual Celebration of the national heritage, NSA Gallery, Durban.
2000: University of Natal (Centre for Visual Art) Staff and Post-graduate students exhibition, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2000: Break the Silence! HIV/AIDS Billboards around the Durban Metro, Technikon Natal, Durban.
2000-3: Jabulisa 2000: The Art of KwaZulu-Natal, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Aspirations: Post-graduate students’ exhibition: Centre for Visual Art, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: The Right to Celebrate, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1999: Izikhwepha Zethu: Our Strength, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1999: Ezamandulo: a Heritage Day exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1999: Izwe Lethu: Our Land, African Art Centre, Durban.
1999: Our Heritage, Our Image, The BAT Centre, Durban.
1999: University of Natal Staff and post-graduate students art exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg.
1999: Ngezandla Zethu Art and Crafts Bazaar, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
1999-2000: Golden Scenario 2000!!! An annual exhibition organised by Golden Scenario Art Projects, The BAT Centre, Durban.
1998: Inhlabamkhosi/ The Clarion Call, The Empangeni Art and Cultural History (TEACH) Museum, Empangeni.
1998: The 1st Annual MACS (Midlands Art and Crafts Society) Art Auction and Exhibition, Midlands.
1998: Young Artists’ exhibition, Harris Fine Art, Cape Town.
1997: Metropolitan Life Art exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
1996: Natal Arts Trust 6th Biennale exhibition, Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.
1996: Jabulisa: The Art of KwaZulu-Natal, Standard Bank Annual Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
1994: Northern Natal Artists Exhibition, Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.
1994: A group exhibition, NSA Gallery, Durban.
1994-5: Artists Invite Artists, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1993: Zululand Society of Arts: Members’ Exhibition, Eshowe.

Group Exhibitions (international)

2010: What We See: Reconsidering an Anthropometrical Collection from Southern Africa, Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC), Windhoek; Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel.
2001-3: Break the Silence! HIV/AIDS Print Portfolio, National Gallery of Botswana, Gaborone; National Art Gallery, Windhoek; UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles; Palais des Nation, Geneva; Lamb Gallery, Dundee; Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries; Barcelona AIDS 2002 Conference, Barcelona. 

Commissions

2010: Grahaeme Lindop, Johannesburg.
2008: Prof. Extraordinaire, Hans and Babro Engdahl, University of the Western Cape,
Cape Town.
2008: Anette Hoffmann, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2004: Vittorio Meneghelli, Academy Brushware, Germiston.
2002-3: Illustration of annual reports, Lima Rural Development Foundation, Pietermaritzburg.
2001: A barometer for measuring the levels of financial donations to the chest, Community Chest, Pietermaritzburg.
2000: A portrait of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona kaJama, Ncome Museum and Monuments Complex, Dundee.
2000: A mural project in a children’s waiting room, Pietermaritzburg High Court, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Umgeni Water-Amanzi, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Sibongile Mkhize, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: A mural depicting Ruben Tholakele Caluza, an African musician & A new supper room project (executed on behalf of Golden Scenario Art Projects), Pietermaritzburg-Msunduzi City Hall, Pietermaritzburg.
1998: Eleanor Isaacs, Pietermaritzburg

Collections

University of Fort Hare, Alice.
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Administration Museum Services, Pietermaritzburg.
Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.
The Empangeni Art and Cultural History (TEACH) Museum, Empangeni.
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Parliamentary Building, Pietermaritzburg.
The Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers, Balgowan.
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
South African Reserve Bank Collection, Pretoria.
Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
Quarters of the Consulate General of the United States of America, Durban.
National Arts Council of South Africa, Johannesburg.
United Nations Office, Geneva.
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Hluhluwe.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City.
UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington D.C.
Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
Youth Strategy executive, Dumfries and Galloway, Southern Uplands.
AMPATH National Laboratory Services, Durban.
National Gallery, Windhoek.
National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria.
Renault South Africa, Johannesburg.
Offices of the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal province, Pietermaritzburg.
MTN Arts Foundation, Johannesburg.
Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.

Private Collections include those of former president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, former government ministers Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Narend Singh, as well as collectors Barbara Lindop, Walter Lindop, Patrick and Sally Enthoven, Prof Extraordinaire, Hans and Babro Engdahl, and Peter Neal.

Awards

2009: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Scholarship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2006-8: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.

Presented Papers

2013: Natives and ‘other’ Persons may not own so much!: Power and the construction of the South African landscape before and after 1913, 'Land Divided Conference', Robert Leslie Social Science Building, University of Cape Town (in absentia).
2010: Giving Landscape a voice: Photographic dimensions of ‘framing’ power relations in South Africa, 'Bonani Africa Photographic Festival and Conference', South African Museum, Cape Town.
2009: Power Relations in Santu Mofokeng’s Landscape Photography: A Critical Reflection, 'PSHA 4th War and the Everyday Colloquium', Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2009: Reflections on South African Landscape Photography with particular reference to David Goldblatt, 'Brown Bag Seminar', Interdisciplinary Center for the study of Global Change (ICGC), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2008: Land and Human Values: Landscape photographs by David Goldblatt. 'PSHA Colloquium', Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2008: South African Photography: History and concept of landscape, 'Post-graduate Seminar', Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2007: Critical Analysis of Landscape photographs by David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng, 'Symposium', Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2006: Power Relations in Landscape Photographs by David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng, research paper, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
2002: Isizathu nokubaluleka komsebenzi wokwenziwa komfanekiso-ngqo weSilo sikaZulu uCetshwayo kaMpande, promotional talk, BAT Centre, Durban.
2002: The relationship between Culture and Welfare: Some traditional aspects of the concept of Ubuntu, 'Launch of the Culture and Counselling Centre', Siyahlomula High School, Pietermaritzburg.
2002: The significance of a prestigious commission for the portrait of King Cetshwayo kaMpande of the Zulu, 'Heritage Symposium on Arts, Crafts and Culture', Centre for Visual Art, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 
2001: Historical Background and significance of the French art (Barbizon Group and Impressionism) in the permanent collection of the Tatham Art Gallery, talk on anniversary of the death of Prince Imperial Louis Napoleon in 1879, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2001: Witchcraft Images In the Tatham Art Gallery, 'Regional Conference: KwaZulu-Natal Branch of South African Museums Association (SAMA)', Ascot Inn, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Vuminkosi Zulu: Social and Biblical Themes In His Sculpture and Graphic Work, 'The 15th Annual Conference of the South African Association of Art Historians (SAAAH)', Centre for Visual Art, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1998: Making a Living: An Overview of the Ngezandla Zethu Art and Crafts Project. 'Regional Conference: KwaZulu-Natal Branch of South African Museums Association (SAMA)', KwaMuhle Museum, Durban.
1997: Teaching Art to a Black (African) Child of the post-Apartheid South Africa: A Radical Approach, Women Teachers’ Wing of Natal African Teachers Union (NATU), Impendle Community Hall, Impendle.
1996: Aspects of Landscape Painting in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, 'The 12th Annual Conference of the South African Association of Art Historians (SAAAH)', Department of Fine Arts and History of Art, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

Workshop and Lectures

2011: Guest Speaker, Awards Presentation Ceremony, Department of Fine Arts and Jewellery Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2008: Conductor of official launch, Hands On! Masks Off! workshop series, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
1996 - 2006: Teacher, weekly art workshops, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2004: Exhibition opener, This is Where We Live by Siyabonga Sikhosana, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2001: Guest lecturer, Stages of Development in Child Art: A lecture offered to local pre-school educators, Keep Pietermaritzburg Clean Association (KPCA), Pietermaritzburg.
2001: Teacher, basic drawing skills workshops, Senzokuhle Women’s Group, Mpophomeni Township, Howick.
2000: Teacher, weekly art workshops for children, Ntuthukoville community, Pietermaritzburg.
1999 - 2000: Teacher, Umthangala art appreciation classes: A series of visual literacy workshops for Pietermaritzburg and greater iNdlovu Region township and rural crafters, iNlovu Region.
1999: Speaker, Indima emelwe ukudlalwa nguthisha ongum-Afrika wangekhulunyaka lamashumi amabili nanye: Ukudlinza okuyinjulabuchopho, A thanks-giving party in respect of the academic achievement of Xolisile Felicitus Buselaphi Makhaye, Orients Heights, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Teacher, children’s holiday workshop: Paper collage, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
1999 - 2000: Teacher, bi-weekly art workshops for children, Ntuthukoville community, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Facilitator, children's mural project for Ntuthukoville Community Hall, Pietermaritzburg.
1997 - 1998: Teacher, children’s holiday workshops, Georgetown Library, Pietermaritzburg.
1997 - 1998: Teacher, weekly art workshops for children, SOS Children’s Village, Pietermaritzburg.
1996 - 1997: Teacher, weekly art workshops for inmates, New Pietermaritzburg Prison, Pietermaritzburg.

Committees

2013: Judging Panel Member, ABSA L’Atelier Art Competition, ArtSpace Gallery, Durban.
2011: Board Member, Artists for Humanity (AFH), Fine Arts Department, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2011: Award Committee Member, eThekwini Living Legends, Durban.
2008: Selection PanelMember, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Award, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth.
2007 - 2010: Chairperson of Visual Art Advisory Panel, National Arts Council of South Africa.
2007 - 2010: Multi-Disciplinary Advisory Panel Member, National Arts Council of South Africa.
2006 - 2010: Board Member of National Arts Council of South Africa.
1999 - 2006: Board of Trustees Member, Vuminkosi Zulu Family Trust, Pietermaritzburg.
1999 - 2006: Exhibitions Committee Member, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
2005: Judging Panel Member, Getting KwaZulu-Natal Learning Competition, Department of Education, Pietermaritzburg.
2005: Member, Msunduzi Arts and Culture Council Forum, Pietermaritzburg.
2005 - 2006: Shop Steward, Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU), Msunduzi Municipality, Pietermaritzburg.
2002: Selection Panel Member, Gordon Verhoef & Krause Art in the Park, Pietermaritzburg.
2002: Selection Panel Member, Environmental awareness Children’s Art Competition, Golden Horse Casino, Pietermaritzburg.
2002: Judging Panel Member, KwaZulu-Natal Prisons Visual Art Competition, National Institute for Crime Prevention (NICRO), KwaZulu-Natal.
2002: Judge, Sabalala Nolwazi Youth Project Art Comptetion, Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg.
1999 - 2001: Management Board Member, Jambo Arts Centre, Pietermaritzburg.
1999 - 2001: Executive Committee Chairman, Golden Scenario Art Projects, Pietermaritzburg and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
1999 - 2000: Secretary, Pietermaritzburg regional committee of the KwaZulu-Natal Art and Crafts Council, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Judging Panel Member, Mural Paintings Competition, Sobantu Creche and Pre-school, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Judging Panel Member, The 50th Anniversary Children’s Competition, SOS Children’s Village, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Judging Panel Member, Children’s Day Art Competition, Keep Pietermaritzburg Clean Association, Pietermaritzburg.
1998: Judging Panel Member, Crafts Council Fair, Durban Exhibition Centre, Durban.
1997 - 1999: Founder, Member, Projects Co-ordinator, Golden Scenario Art Projects, Pietermaritzburg and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
1997 - 1999: Selection Committee Member, Gordon Verhoef & Krause Art in the Park, Pietermaritzburg.
1996 - 1998: Chairman, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands sub-committee of the Craft Council of South Africa, Midlands.
1997: Judge, World Environmental Day Children’s Art Competition, Ambleton Community Primary School, Pietermaritzburg.
1996: Selection Panel Member, Jabulisa: The Art of KwaZulu-Natal Exhibition, Grahamstown.
1994 - 1996: Acquisitions Committee Member, Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.
1991: Treasurer, Fine Arts Society (FASOC), Department of Fine Arts, University of Fort Hare, Alice.

Workshops Attended

2010: Induction Workshop for newly appointed Academic Staff, Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark.
2002: Dead or alive?, Symposium on heritage in Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
2001: Changes in emphasis in UK museums from collection based work, to learning, access and combating social exclusion, Seminar paper by Mark Taylor (event organized by the South African Museums Association, SAMA), KwaMuhle Museum, Durban. 
2001: Indigenous Knowledge Workshop, Seminar, Technikon Natal, Durban.
2000: Workshop on outcomes-based education II, Voortrekker, Tatham and Natal museums, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Printmaking Workshop II: lithography and screen printing, The Caversham Press, Balgowan.
1999: Workshop on outcomes-based education I, KwaMuhle Museum (facilitated by Darryl Houghton, Department of Education, organised by SAMA), Durban. 
1999: Open-air visual art workshop, Tatham Art Gallery (organized by the Golden Scenario Art Projects), Pietermaritzburg.
1998: Potato printing on fabric workshop, Old Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg.
1997: Printmaking Workshop: lithography, screen printing, lino-cutting and etching, The Caversham Press, Balgowan.

Other Contributions

2013: Author, Who occupies the “centre”?: Reflections on power relations in Gerard Sekoto’s landscapes and other approaches to landscape painting, catalogue essay for Gerard Sekoto's posthumous 'Song for Sekoto' exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg.
2004: Author, Vuminkosi Zulu: A Critical Analysis of Social and Biblical Themes in his Art catalogue essay for 'Veterans of KwaZulu-Natal' group exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2004: Author, Social, political and cultural aspects of the art of Trevor Makhoba in the collection of the Tatham Art Gallery: A critical analysis and assessment, catalogue essay for Trevor Makhoba's yet unrealised posthumous exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2002: Author, Spiritual Connotations of Magic/Witchcraft: A biblical perspective, catalogue essay for 'Untold tales of magic: Abelumbi', Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2000: Yehoshua comforting an AIDS victim (print), presented to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, by Artists For Human Rights Trust Committee on 11th October, Technikon Natal, Durban.
2000: C0-curator, Organiser, Media Writer, Yivume Wethu: a visual celebration of the national heritage group exhibition, N.S.A. Gallery, Durban.
1999 - 2000: Co-curator, Organiser, Media Writer, Golden Scenario 2000!!! group exhibition, Menzi Mchunu Gallery; Democratic Gallery; BAT Centre Trust; Durban Harbour, Durban.
1999: Logo Designer, Isizinda samaDeke, an inter-provincial organisation aimed at maintaining solidarity among the Makhaye clan, South Africa.
1999: Compiler, April-June Golden Scenario Art Projects newsletter, Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Illustrator, Fidelities V poetry magazine cover, Pietermaritzburg.
1998: Author, catalogue essay for Vuminkosi Zulu's Retrospective Exhibition, Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
1998: Co-ordinator, Inhlabamkhosi-The Clarion Call group exhibition,Empangeni Art and Cultural History Museum, Empangeni.
1997: Co-ordinator, Catalogue Compiler, Metropolitan Life group exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
1997: Designer, Golden Scenario Art Projects logo, Pietermaritzburg.
1996: Co-founder, Golden Scenario Art Projects, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

Texts

Conservation with Mario Pissarra, Making sense of what landscape is about, ASAI, 2021.

Madi Phala

Madi Phala

b. Kwa-Thema, Springs, 1955. d. Langa, Cape Town, 2 March 2007

From his early Black Consciousness oriented drawings to his imaginative mixed media treatment of the herd-boy theme, Madi Phala’s works invariably represent a preoccupation with African culture as dynamic and emancipatory.

Madi Phala, original herd-boy (1955-2007)

© Mario Pissarra, 03 March 2007

Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was robbed and fatally stabbed outside his home in Langa, Cape Town on the evening of Friday 2nd March 2007.

Born in Kwa-Thema, Springs in 1955, Phala was a member of the Bayajula Arts Society from the mid to late 1970s, a community initiative that sought to uplift the position of art and culture in the townships. Phala also worked for the SABC for several years as a sound effects maker, and sporadically ventured into producing textiles and clothes. For the better part of the 90s he taught art to children in his garage, and only began practicing as a full time artist in 1998. Despite making a shift towards his own art practice, Phala never seemed to quite leave his role as an educator behind, evident in his recent appointment (on short term contract) by Iziko Museums’ Education division.A largely self-taught artist, Phala featured in the seminal Tributaries exhibition, curated by Ricky Burnett in 1985, and appeared in various ‘early’ texts on black South African art such as Matsemela Manaka’s Echoes of African Art (1987), Gavin Younge’s Art of the South African Townships (1988) and E de Jager’s Images of Man (1992. Associated with the Thupelo Workshop from its inception in 1985, Phala became resident at Greatmore Studios when he moved to Cape Town in 2004. He exhibited regularly in recent years, with most of these exhibitions being well received by the buying public. This year also marked his debut as an exhibitor at the Design Indaba in Cape Town. Phala was commissioned last year by The Sunday Times to commemorate the tragic sinking of the S.S. Mendi in 1917, when black South African soldiers who served in France went down in the English Channel.Perhaps Phala’s most endearing artistic contribution in recent years was his development and treatment of the theme of ‘herd-boys’. In these works Phala appears to have adapted the notion of herd-boys as traditional guardians of cattle (symbols of wealth, and the ‘African way’). He reinvented herd-boys as muses and playful guides for an ongoing series of reflections on cultural beliefs and traditional practices. Much of this work is extremely rich: it is as dreamlike, evocative, contemplative and spiritual as it is physical, tangible and tactile. His was a poetic and sensory art that explored cultural practices in a very personal way, with humour interceding in gentle ways, adding a warm glow to his creative interrogations of culture and identity.

Madi Phala has gone to join the ancestors. I think he would not have been offended if I were to ask: are they ready for him?

Madi's grave (Photo Courtesy of Xolelani Matshikiza)
Nkoali Nawa, Madi Phala and Minister Pallo Jordan at opening of the Renault showroom exhibition (Photo Courtesy of Uta Goebel Gross)
Madi Phala at the Bag Factory, Newtown (Photo Courtesy of Uta Goebel Gross)
Madi Phala opens gate, Greatmore Studios (Photo Courtesy of Uta Goebel Gross)
Raphael Chikukwa, Madi Phala and Velile Soha outside Gugs'thebe Arts Centre, Langa, Cape Town (Photo Courtesy of Uta Goebel Gross)
Madi Phala at Greatmore Studios (Photo Courtesy of Uta Goebel Gross)

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Comments

Rest In Peace

Rest In Peace
M Maluka, 04 March 2007

This is very sad news

This is very sad news
KekeTop, 04 March 2007

Madi Phala

I didn’t have the privilege of meeting Mr. Phala or knowing him, I am however saddened by his death. It highlights again the level of needless and senseless violence that accompanies petty crimes in SA. It’s not that there’s not the same level of crime in other countries (in some perhaps more), its just the manner in which human life seems to be so easily expendable. It scares the hell out of me. What has become of our humanity? There is hunger and poverty all over the world but that does not give any human being the excuse to exterminate another human being like a common roach. It really makes me so mad!!

May Madi Phala’s soul rest in perfect peace, and may the Lord grant his family, friends and colleagues the fortitude to bear the loss.
Ijeoma Uche-Okeke, 04 March 2007

M Phala

What an absolute needless tragedy! The best are going – have gone. ENOUGH!
Wilma Cruise, 04 March 2007

To Madi

Dear Madi,

I am deeply saddened at your untimely death. Your spirit was an inspiration to me, your laughter like the reflection of light on water.

May your art continue to speak for you, and so remain within our midst.

All my love,
Sonya
Sonya Rademeyer, 04 March 2007

Re: Madi

I was so shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic passing of Madi. We met during the Sessions Ekapa and kept in touch periodically since then. Tears well up and feelings of anger collide with a sense of shock and sadness. When a society starts gnawing at its imaginary structure we are in deep trouble. Go well, Madi my friend. You will be missed.

Premesh
Premesh Lalu, 04 March 2007

Madi Phala

Mario, thank you for the posting. News of Madi Phala’s death brings great sorrow here, across the Atlantic as well. To his family, friends and nearby colleagues I send my hearfelt sympathies. His spirit and love of life lives on in those he touched and the works that are his legacy.
J. McGee, 04 March 2007

an infectious laugh

Such an infectious laugh and smile – Madi was a hugely positive guy – especially about his neighbourhood and people around him – all the more cruel then, that this, should happen to him. Best wishes from the UK.
Andy Harper, 04 March 2007

Madi

I too met Madi at the sessions Ekapa and came to know and admire him and his work in all the forms it took. This is such a shock and senseless loss. Madi, your creativity, humanity and sensitivity will be deeply missed and the sadness that the news of your passing brings will no doubt hang over Cape Town much like your energy invigorated those of us who came into contact with you in this city.
Noeleen Murray, 04 March 2007

Madi

I met Madi during the Thupelo Workshop in Durban. We were planning an exhibition of his work here in Durban in early 2008!! I am shocked and so sad. I was so looking forward to getting to know him better. How many more need to die senselessly before something is done?
Karen Bradtke, 05 March 2007

His soul is in his paintings

Madi was a man of change and full of ideas, I learned a lot from him in a short time.
Sitting with a wise man is worth than reading numbers of books, so he was one of a kind. With his kind and cheerful face. My deepest sympathy to his family, friends and colleagues.I will never forget him.
Teferi Gizachew, 05 March 2007

Madi Phala

I’m thankful I had the privilege of knowing you –
Yvette Dunn, 05 March 2007

RIP Madi

I met and came to know Madi during a recent residency at Greatmore studios in late 2006. During that time he came to be a friend who “looked out” for me and took me under his wing. I will not forget a character whose warmth of spirit, infectious laugh and positive energy could change the atmosphere of any room he walked into.
His passing is a great loss for South Africa. He will be sorely missed. On that note, I wish to give my deepest condolences and sympathies to the friends, family and all those who knew this unique personality. It is a great tragedy.

Newell Harry, Sydney Australia
Newell Harry, 05 March 2007

Sleeping Herdboy

I intentionally went to Madi Phala’s site on Wednesday the 28th of Feb to check on his new work. I had met him once in CTown at Thupelo workshop in 2005. For some reason I thought of him and wanted to know what he has been up to this year. I am greatly saddened at the loss of such a creative soul. Rest in peace my brother.
Maggie Otieno, 05 March 2007

Madi

It is very sad indeed. Madi was a very good friend from the first moment at Thupelo Workshop in 2004. Great pity that I never had the opportunity of inviting you to Nigeria. Rest in Peace.
Smooth, 05 March 2007

Madi

I met Madi on 26 January 2007 (this year) at Guga S’thebe Arts and Culture Centre in Langa where he also worked. Its funny how you meet someone for the first time and manage to make a connection that makes you feel like you’ve known them forever. Because after my guests had long gone (I was hosting an event at the centre that weekend) I stayed and chatted to Madi for hours. What a loss! This guy was so wise, had so much intergrity and he was such a visionary. I was so excited and proud when I saw him exhibiting at the Design Indaba. We spoke about the fact that he wanted to explore his work on ‘mother’s looking for their children’ more and I was telling him how much I relate to the work. Eish, what a waste! Madi was one of those people that made me really proud. U robale hantle, Madi. What an ancestor you are going to make…
Ukhona Mlandu-Letsika, 05 March 2007

Madi a shining light

Dear Madi,
From the moment I met you I adored you. Who could resist such a commanding presence ? A beautiful man with confident maturity, an extraordinarily happy artist, thrilled with your recent successs and new role as educator , it was a privilege to know you. But, alas too short.

On Thursday I saw you radiantly giving your first ever guided tour to an enchanted school group .
How is it possible that a huge presence and a visionary i could have his life snuffed out like that?
I know that many of us grieve for your lost life and the loss to your children and their mothers. I also know that many of us are fearful.
Go well Madi you will not be forgotten,.
Your friend and colleague

MamangeThandi

Iziko SA National Gallery, Cape Town.Carol Kaufmann, 05 March 2007

We will miss you, Madi

To have met Madi was to never forget him. I had the pleasure during the early days of the Thupelo workshops in Johannesburg and I was thrilled at his appointment in the Iziko Education and Public Programmes Department. I mourn his untimely and violent passing with my colleagues at Iziko South African National Gallery. Some met him only recently, but his enthusiasm, energy and excitement about his work here impressed everyone and the sense of loss is palpable. He loved the environment, which – as he said – opened up new avenues and possibilities for education and for his own work. Madi’s life has been extinguished, but he lives and shines through his work and in our hearts.Marilyn Martin, 05 March 2007

Watch over usOh how sad for us all – another beautiful, gentle soul lost when we really needed him in Cape Town. We will miss you, Madi.
J Ranson, 05 March 2007

A kernel of my research, for MadiHere I share a portion of my upcoming book (UMinn 2007)
in which Madi was the crux….It is my profound regret that Madi did not live to see this eulogy in print.In 1989, in a moving defense of what she called “Black Abstract Art,” against the contemporary writing of critics like Richards, Marilyn Martin pointed out that Gavin Younge neglected to comment on the work pictured above his own paragraphs on the Thupelo Project in Art of the South African Townships . The image was a mixed media work on canvas by Madi Phala that contained several stick figures and what appeared to be a hint of the corrugated metal wall of an urban slum shack. According to Martin, these figural elements, together with Phala’s title, These Guys Are Heavy, actually contradicted the thrust of Younge’s own argument about a non-referential, apolitical art emanating from the Thupelo workshops. I am inspired to expand upon Martin’s perceptive remarks on Madi Phala’s work. First, the title of the piece was a reference to the black American slang term, “heavy,” with its connotation of ponderous, serious, or deeply significant political or emotional implications as in the name of the 1990s rap group with a retro 1960s “Black Power” aesthetic: “The Brand New Heavies.” Martin’s essay cited other titles of abstract works by Phala, to strengthen her case that they held political implications: Garrison, and Adversity I.

Who are the figures in These Guys Are Heavy? Are they some township toughs, some youths, amatsosti, or Comrades, confronting the viewer with their crazed eyes, and meaning to make him or her a bit uneasy? Are they security police come to harass the youth? Are they political prisoners, sitting in their jail-box waiting? Planning their next revolutionary move?

If one were to study Madi Phala’s earlier graphic art, as published in the radical culture journal Staffrider, it becomes clear that his Thupelo Workshop-inspired paintings evolved from earlier figural work in what was locally referred to as an “African surrealist” mode. The style of this graphic work was similar to the early art of Thami Mnyele and to the mystical figural landscapes of Fikile Magadlela, both of whom were heavily involved with the Black Consciousness Movement during the 1970s. Madi Phala’s own drawings followed the example of these other artists, too, in his use of the theme of woman as a sign of the African soul, as something rooted in the soil and bursting under stress. An illustration of the popularity of this “Mother Africa” theme, and of its application among “BC”- oriented artists of the period, appeared in the March 1979 issue of Staffrider, in a poem titled, “Black Woman, Black Woman,” by Bonisile Joshua Motaung:Black woman, Black woman
Beautiful like sunset across the horizon,
With plaited hair and a face
Shining with vaseline, making her
More black in the night:
Her face wears the look of nature.
[. . .] Black woman, Black woman
She moves with the
Dignity of a funeral,
It is not tears
Shining in her eyes
But petals of blood
Mourning the history
Of her suffering:
Obituaries of her children
Deeply line her face
Leaving freckles to mark
Their graves.
[. . .]

This poem at first seems to so closely paraphrase “Femme Noire” (1945) by Léopold Senghor, that it might be considered an homage to the poet who was a cofounder of Négritude philosophy and a touchstone for the Black Consciousness Movement. Compare the final two stanzas of Senghor’s poem:

Femme nue, femme obscure
Huile que ne ride nul souffle, huile calme aux flancs de l’athlète, aux
flancs des princes du Mali
Gazelle aux attaches célestes, les perles sont étoiles sur
la nuit de ta peau
Délices des jeux de l’Esprit, les reflets de l’or ronge ta
peau qui se moire
A l’ombre de ta chevelure, s’éclaire mon angoisse aux
soleils prochains de tes yeux.

Femme nue, femme noire
Je chante ta beauté qui passe, forme que je fixe dans l’Eternel
Avant que le Destin jaloux ne te réduise en cendres pour
nourrir les racines de la vie.

Naked woman, dark woman
Oil no breeze can ripple, oil soothing the thighs
Of athletes and the thighs of the princes of Mali
Gazelle with celestial limbs, pearls are stars
Upon the night of your skin. Delight of the mind’s riddles,
The reflections of red gold from your shimmering skin
In the shade of your hair, my despair
Lightens in the close suns of your eyes.

Naked woman, black woman
I sing your passing beauty and fix it for all Eternity
before a jealous Fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots
of life.

“Femme Noire” was a statement, in verse, of the place of woman in Négritude philosophy. Senghor’s language reified black woman as the embodiment of sensuousness and as a place of comfort and warmth for men. In this poem, too, death was a metaphor for the entombment of Africa’s mythical past, as well as a source of sustenance for Africa’s future. Motaung’s description was more somber. For him the African woman suffered, she aged, and her tears bespoke the tragedy of the early death of her children. This perspective was shared among Black Consciousness writers in South Africa, most notably Mongane Wally Serote, whose poem “The Three Mothers,” began with the lines:
Yes;
This the silence of our speedy uncurling youth-tangles
Forms folds, curves little surprised faces
That gape at our heritage,
Our age,
That grab son from mother like the cross did Jesus from Maria
The faces that have eyes that are tears
Tears from mothers,
Lord,
This has left me so silent!
[…]

Through Motaung and Serote’s poetry, as well as that of other Black Consciousness writers, the rhythmic sensuousness of Senghor’s Négritude was translated into the cruel realism of the South African revolution. They described women’s hardship as much as their sensuality. Their women carried the most unbearable burden: the sacrifice of their children. Sections of Motaung’s poem also seem to have been a direct inspiration for Madi Phala’s images. Motaung’s lyric so closely approximated in word what Phala’s drawing achieved with line that it might as well have been an illustration of the drawing, or vise-versa. In addition to mirroring the poet’s theme of “Africa as a woman,” the images published by Phala in Staffrider also adapted and improved upon a theme then common among black South African artists: the black musician as a metaphorical sign of the condition of the race. Along these lines, it is noteworthy that the drawings that accompanied an article on Bob Marley, in the January 1981 issue of Staffrider, were credited not as “art” but as “Music by Madi Phala” (Figure 6.11). In each of two untitled graphite-on-paper drawings, a nude woman was illustrated playing an instrument similar to a saxophone or a bass clarinet. The figure’s beaded flesh seems to drip like sweat or blood from her ponderous breasts, her elbows, her mouth, and her bald head. She is completely covered with bubble-like spots, or freckles. Her fingers stick deep inside the instrument, which itself wraps around her body like a snake, and represents the horn’s music visually. The instrument and its player become soulfully one.

By moving beyond the quaint genre of street musicians associated with township art, Phala’s pictures extended the musical theme so that musicians could also be seen as interpreters of the crushing effects of apartheid on human bodies, and of an irrepressible desire for resistance. This perspective on the expressive and revolutionary role of the musician as a stand in for all types of artists can also be seen in the photograph of Abe Cindi by veteran Drum photographer Alf Kumalo, on the cover of Staffrider for February 1980 (Figure 6.12). The shirtless musician was photographed as he sprayed his horn defiantly in the face of the viewer. And there is the photo of jazz saxophonist from the 1950s Sophiatown era, Kippie Moeketsi, in the November 1981 Staffrider (Figure 6.13). The musician, whose tragic story was recalled on the pages that followed, stares intently at his own horn, as if wondering what kind of noise the thing is going to produce next. How will it speak for him? This photograph of “Kippie” was one of the images copied over into drawings by Thami Mnyele during the 1980s. Mnyele used it in a montage with photographs of the uprising in Soweto, and of Comrades in battle on the South African border.

Senghor, Motaung, Serote, Mnyele, Dumile, Kippie, Fikile, and Madi Phala. Why not call attention to connections made between these artists and between music, and the body in distress, and poetry? Why reduce the work of South African artists during the last decades of apartheid to a polemic distinction between abstract and figurative art, that only seeks to ask whether the one is more committed to the struggle than the other?

Moving beyond this boundary, it is possible to discern that there were also European art references in Phala’s image from Thupelo. Clearly the work owes a debt to Paul Klee, especially in its economical use of line to simply make figures out of sticks, thread, or squirts of paint direct from the tube. And its theme riffs off Picasso, especially the Picasso of Guernica and even more so the Three Musicians of 1921. These two are works from Picasso’s planar and colorful studies in Synthetic Cubism. In purely technical terms, Phala’s work is not Synthetic Cubism; its style is more a marriage of Klee’s spare technique with some Abstract Expressionist flourishes. But These Guys Are Heavy seems to jump off directly from several key aspects of Three Musicians: the flat frame with three men staring out flatly from it, the hatch marks indicating a beard, and the light square ground surrounded by a darker rectangular ground. The overall feel of the abstraction itself is more in line with Klee’s child-like glyph style, but the thematic influence here is certainly Picasso. Phala’s painting scat-sings over the form of a famous Picasso, itself an icon for all modernist painters, but that does not mean that Phala meant to depict the same thing as Picasso. There is also memory work in this piece: a memory of township art, the art of shacks and squalor. There is also a consciousness of protest art, with its titular hint, an evocation of heinous conditions and of their refusal through music. This is a tough mixture. The eye, if attentive to art and to history, is led from the discovery of the Picasso Three Musicians reference, to Phala’s earlier work on musicians, and back again.

Are Phala’s musicians swinging, bluesy, and heavy with political portent? Are they singing yakhal’inkomo, “the cry of cattle” at the slaughterhouse that could also be seen in Dumile’s tortured drawings, heard in Kippie’s jazz, and read in Wally Serote’s poems? Abdullah Ibrahim had already suggested the conflation of music and political protest at the Culture and Resistance Festival in 1982. If Ibrahim’s purely tonal piano music could have a revolutionary appeal, could not the abstraction of color and line in visual art do the same? Phala mined this golden vein in his painting. Seen in light of his earlier drawing, Phala’s painting seems to be searching for a further means to make the visual more musical. I read it as a kind of acid-dipped sheet music, wherein the body and the music and the visual sign are as one, and are heavy with radical political intention. These are some of the meanings of These Guys are Heavy.

John Peffer Copyright 2006
John Peffer, 05 March 2007

Madi Phala

Madi was such an beautiful human being, it is with great sadness that I receive this news, he always visited me at my shop and he always left a energy of inspiration and positivity. He left us a happy man I am sure, but I dont think he was finished with what he was busy with here. My deepest sympathy. What a great, great man. I will miss his visits and his smile and his voice. I feel angry for the way he left, he didn’t deserve to go like this.
Erick, 05 March 2007

Murder of Madi Another cultural hero has been stolen from us. They say the spirit of a nation shall be judged by its artists, through acts like this the soul of our nation is being robbed, raped and bludgeoned to death.

I wish there was more time
Sanet Visser, 05 March 2007
I wish there was more time to honor him as an artist. He was engaged and involved in his art and as an educator and artist always inspired me with his stories. To see him at Design Indaba and experience his excitement and his new designs will last forever in my mind. I wish that I was on his first tour at the National Gallery, I wish he could read what everybody writes about him, we only walk this road once in our life, let us reach out and touch somebody’s life like he did.Hazel Friedman, 05 March 2007

Madi, friend of my heart

… to meet you, to walk a distance together with you, talking, laughing, discussing, planning, inspiring each other – what a wonderful time this was … and even by email, over 10.000km this connection never ended … what’s now with your exhibition in Germany, the kids workshops and the idea of swap-working together again ?! you really leave me alone … not only me !
Madi, mad-I, wonderful, crazy, lovable person … Cape Town is different now, because it was both at once, meeting you and the mother-city … you showed me a lot about the way of living and thinking and history of South Africa, you made me understand your view to the world and your vision and optimism that things will become better …
Talking about “those old times in Jo’burg” you always called yourself a township-soldier who survived so many situations.War is still not over.
I am so sorry and sad, nothing will fill up the hole your senseless death brought into my world … you’re in my heart, my friend. MASEGO – as you always told me ! Gehe Deinen Weg in Schönheit und Frieden ! UTA from Aachen-Germany
Uta Göbel-Groß, 05 March 2007

Dear Madi

…things been hard since you left. Your’e in God’s hands now but I’m so scared about the future and don’t want to die all alone: you came through to visit and supported my career, sat down spoke deeply to me in words hard to put in writing. I looked up to you with pride as a brother able to humble himself down and part wisdom and support in so many ways.

Sharing the same platform at your last show was really an honour I will keep with the highest ideal. Thank you for showing me the way in this journey of life we all pilgrim through…

Rest in Peace Madi…
H.Bruce, 05 March 2007

Madi Phala

I’m very saddened by this news. I had occasion to spend time in a workshop here in Durban during 2006 and he was a great inspiration to me. May he rest in peace, and dance his dance of joy.
Terry-Anne Stevenson, 05 March 2007

great loss

I am so deeply saddened by the news and angry about how this could have happened.

South Africa is supposed to have the most “advance” constitution of the world, but in reality even the most basic human right -the right to live safely-is not protected!

I hope Mr President Mbeki has the wisdom to see that in order to promote the “African Renaissance”, one must protect the safety of the African equivalence of Da Vinci’s.
Kristin Hua Yang, 05 March 2007

Madi Phala

Madi was an inspiration to artists and had the courage to say and do what he thought was correct. He was a leading light at GreatMore studios and his influence will be greatly missed.
The South African art scene has lost a valuable member who had a great deal of energy and enthusiasm. Such a senseless act of violence will have a significant effect on the lives of many including those not actively pursuing a career as an artist.
Isky Gordon, 06 March 2007

CRIME that we know & live with

The crime that we know and live with has yet robbed us of our dearest friend.This was a very humbled,soft spoken, dedicated man who poured all his energies to his work.He loved doing what he did with all his heart ART. Lives in our townships are seen valueless & hence the CRIME that we know and live with will continue to tore our hearts & take our valuable, beloved ones.All my sympathies goes to the Phala family in Kwa Thema, Springs.I will miss those rainy Friday nights at your place listening to some Music and having cold one, till we meet agin.Terrible way for a person of your calibre to get recognition if he is ever gonna get any.

‘Robala ka kgotso Phala, Mmino wa molodi wa hao o tla o dula o lla ha monate.’
Gaoutwe Styles Mosala, 06 March 2007

I Missed Meeting You!

I’ve heard so much about this great Artist but it’s very unfortunate that I didn’t have a chance to meet him!

Rest in peace Madi
Mary Ogembo, 06 March 2007

Is it True?Madi Son of the soil.
I had a privilege meeting you in my life and what a great person. You will not only be missed by South Afrikans but all your friends around the world my dear Brother. Yet another son of the soil taken by the Criminals who no longer respect human life, its sad. We will all miss you and your smilling face will always reflect all your loving heart.

I am running out of words and your love for the development of art will be missed by many my dear brother. lots luv
Raphael chikukwa Chinovava, 06 March 2007

Madi PhalaI met Madi Phala at AVA at the opening of his exhibition in 2004. His charisma remains with me.
Malcolm Payne, 06 March 2007

Lala ngoXolo Madi

I read with shock the sudden death of Madi at the hands of crimininals who have no respect for sanctity of life. It was befitting for Madi to have been commissioned to do work on the sinking of the S.S. Mendi…with this let’s remember the last dance of the black heroes with Reverend Wauchope leading them on…..’ Ukuntsika kweMendi”
Ulale ngoXolo
Andile Magengelele, 06 March 2007

Madi, my Brother

What a great loss! We will remember your infectious laughter, sense of humour, your unique & colourful style of dressing. You were a very peace loving person who did not deserve such a violent death.

Madi, you were more than just a friend with whom we played football on the dusty streets of Kwa Thema as teenagers. You were more than a colleague in model design at the SABC. You were more than a colleague in art. You were a brother. You epitomized humanity. Your art will continue to truly represent you. Like the oils you used in your paintings, your memories will take long to dry & once they dry, they will not fade away.

Rest in peace Madi, the artist, designer, teacher, avid reader and once again, Brother. SAM NHLENGETHWA
Sam Nhlengethwa, 07 March 2007

Madi

I remember meeting you in 2005 in May when you were at bag factory as if it was a moment ago. We sat and talked about cattle like two herd boys from different tribes. shared their passion of cattle. I remember your laughter at my theories of lobola and cattle.

Such memorable laughter and smile you had. It would have been nice to meet you again.

May soul rest in peace.
Anawana Haloba, 07 March 2007

To Madi Phala

“Death is not a journey to a strange country; it is a journey home. We are not going to a foreign country, but to our father’s house where we will be with our family and friends”.

Madi you’ve been with us when we lost our beloved sister last month, it is so sad now to say that about you. You’ve been a very good & kind family friend to us and, we will definitely miss that lovely smile of yours every time you enter our house and the twins will miss your sweets too.

Uhambe kakuhle, ulale ngoxolo, sohlala sikukhumbula Madi!
Bukelwa Soha, 07 March 2007

Robala ka Kgotso

Robala ka Kgotso Ta Madi, you’ll forever be remembered, Rest in Peace Son of the Soil.
Kgomotso Raborife, 07 March 2007

tragic and senseless

I had the privilege of meeting Madi Phala through Mario Pissarra, when I was in Cape Town very briefly in November of 2006. Our meeting is one I’m unlikely to forget. Such a tragic and senseless loss of life. My deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and close friends.
Eddie Chambers, 07 March 2007

Madi Phala

One abiding memory of Madi Phala is observing his encounter with a very young artist at an exhibition opening in Cape Town last year. The young artist recognised Madi, and came up to him somewhat awestruck, nervously trying to convey how much he admired his work. Madi responded with absolute humility, saying “YOU are an inspiration to ME.”

Peace, Madi. I look forward to meeting you again.
Matthew Cannon, 07 March 2007

Madi

Madi, I was going to write to you to tell you I miss you, but then I read the news that we will all be missing you for a very long time.

The memories of you dancing and laughing make me smile. The last time we spoke was such a short time ago and you were smiling like the sun; it was as if anything could flourish under the warmth and light you radiated…and still do.

Madi, I am glad to have met you and I am shocked and sad you are gone so soon. I send my thoughts and sympathies to the Phala family.
Maryalice Walker, Maine, USA, 07 March 2007

Bra Madi

I have no words to express the state I’m undergoing. Such realities in our society are inconceivable to imagine. It is in such times that one’s presence become apparent in the case of one’s absence. I remain grateful to have had an opportunity to exchange ideas and receive professional advice from ‘Bra Madi’. The warmth and love of your fellow artists you had at all times. Your presence will remain with all those you came across. Lala ngoxolo Madi Phala.
Loyiso Qanya, 07 March 2007

Aluhlanga lungehlanga

Madi mfowethu ulale ngoxolo.
REST IN PEACE
Velile Soha, 08 March 2007

Madi Phala

I am shocked to hear how someone who seems so alive in my memory is no longer around. I am in cold and gloomy London, but am taken back to my memory of speaking with Madi on a sunny day in Cape Town and his warmth and enthusiasm that still seems so present. There is no excuse for a needless death but the least one can do is try to enable life to continue the way the person who left it would want us to.
Jade Gibson, 08 March 2007

Madi

What a tragedy. Wonderful to have met and worked with
such a charismatic and talented man. Pse forward my condolences to
the studio and family.
Ros Lurie, 09 March 2007

Madi

Lala ngoxolo Madi, You’re a great inspiration to many , young and old. Am thnkful that I got the chance to be arround you even if it was for a short time.Your star will forever shine
Zipho, 09 March 2007

SADDEST NEWS EVER!

I was very suprised to hear about Madi’s death because the way I saw him he was a good person. I don’t know why some people can do bad things like this.
I met him on the 28/02/07 at the gallery but to what I saw HE WAS A DARLING.
May the good lord be with his family in this time. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE!
Obedience Motlhanke @ CPUT BELLVILLE CAMPUS, 09 March 2007

You made such an impression

Dear Madi

You made such an impression on me.

I met you in the week preceeding the opening of parliament at the National Gallery. You came in to visit a calligraphy workshop several times. Your infectious laugh, love of life, life philosophy and your hair were just fabulous. We had a good laugh about how you had put up your hair and how incredible it looked. We talked about happiness and about life and you made such an impression on me – I will not forget you.

Rest in peace. I am sure you will walk with us as an angel. Know that you have touched so many hearts …
Leesette, 12 March 2007

A Kings child

“A King’s child” Madi said to Reason and I when we briefly spoke at the iLetters workshop. My aching heart finds comfort in his answer.

Dit is ons kalligrawe se gebed dat God elkeen wat treur met Sy Liefdeskombers sal vertroos.
Heleen de Haas, 13 March 2007

Madi Phala

I never had the opportunity cross paths twith the well-known and celebrated Madi Phala, but have heard so much rich and joyful things about him that it was quite a shock for me…However, I have the pleasure of sharing a history with one of his children who, to me, is a direct image in art and character as his father. Although Madi is gone, I know that his spirit is living through the hearts and lives of his children…Madi, I know that I have not met you, but I do know that we would have chatted about life and art (in all its spheres) till the sun would rise…Rest in Peace
Anon, 14 March 2007

Its a shame

The news of the death of Madi Phala came to me with great shock. He was made of so much energy and humour, intelligent and vibrant. The international art community will miss his creativity and friendship. Its a pity he had to go in such a brutal way.
We will all miss you Madi.
My sincere sympathy to the greatmore community, his family and friends. may his soul rest in Eternal peace.
Anon, 15 March 2007

Madi Phala

If you were a star
we would hate to see sunlight.

but then again what is life without sunshine

may your brightness dazzle us
may our rainbow’s colours be richer.

may the tears of your kith and kin be wiped by the HEAVENS ANGELS and their smiles be restored because you were one of a kind and with that they and all of us can walk tall and proud;

because in you, with you, around you, about you our humaneness was defined.

ROBALA KA KGOTSO MADI
RE TLA HO HOPOLA KA NAKO TSOHLE
Anon, 20 March 2007

gentle mentor

Madi was the first artist that I ever collaborated with on a show called Exfoliate, curated by Norman O’Flynn in 2003. I can’t remember how I ended up being paired up with Madi, but I do remember a man that was full of grace, stories and passion. We both loved paper, but he taught me extremes that paper and collage could be taken to, with me definitely in his shadow. He welcomed me as a visitor to Greatmore and guided my students where I fell short. He was our Mentor. Most of all in collaboration he awakened the practicing artist in me that had been lost in so much theory. Thus dawned a beginning for me, which I will always remember.
I’ll rememeber the last I saw you, your intrigued smile at my show in January, I’ll remember your art, burned into my memory.
What a pity to have to say good bye.
Anon, 01 April 2007


Madi Phala

I’m mainly shamefully ignorant about our black artists but I’m trying to catch up and educate myself …… I’d never heard of Madi Phala, but his beautiful face stopped me in my tracks, and the story of his senseless death broke my heart. My deepest sympathy goes to his family and friends. I will catch up now Madi, and learn more about you – thank you for leaving us your beautiful work.
Elaine Hurford, 10 April 2007

WHERE THOSE KILLERS?

I wonder where are those killers because I was a student to Madi Phala. Artists they die like nothing. May Madi’s soul rest in peace.
Tshepo Senyeho, artist from Kwa Thema, 15 May 2007

Unbelievable!!!! RIP

I am extremely devasted by Madi’s passing. Who could do such a mean thing to the world? I vivsted Madi Phala while i was doing my study tours of South Africa. I once spent a week at his house in Langa, Cape Town! May the GOOD MAKER rest him in eternal peace. Collin
Collin Sekajugo, 01 December 2007

RIP Madi

Madi’s works rocked my heart! I first met during an international artists workshop in Lusaka Zambia. I pray that his inspirational works continue to impact positively on other people’s lives.
Rest in Peace. Collin Sekajugo, Kampala, Uganda
Collin Sekajugo, 01 December 2007

Thank you!

The bewildering talent, vision and style of an artist like Madi… will never die! May his soul fare and excel as well on “the other side” as his creative physical did on this one…thank you for what you left us with, my friend – boundless inspiration!!!
Courtney Anthony Forbes, 11 December 2007

Madi Phala

It is exactly two years since your death Madi but your’e always remembered, loved, missed by your friends, colleagues and family. I always think of the past where we used to enjoy together with your fellow friends the late Nhlanhla Xaba and Sam Nhlengethwa. May your soul rest in peace.
Your brother Teboho Xaba.
Teboho Xaba, 14 May 2009

Madi Phala

Madi, did not know you. Could not because our paths were thousands of miles away from each other. However, in spirit were knew each other. We are Africans.

I contemplate the waste that took your life – and the lives of so many others – before our time and now in our own time. It troubles my soul.

In the past, others did it to us. A few who cared for humanity protested. Our people fought with their blood.

Today we seem to be doing it all to ourselves. We should all be outraged. Beyond outrage we should all be doing something to stop the blight of violence. We do not have replacement for the Madis of our world.
Nativeson, 04 September 2009

Rest in peace My Brother.Sohla sikukhumbula

i remember Madi making his trips to my granny’s house to see my uncle how is also an artist,sohlala sikukhumbula
lorraine plaatjies, 02 March 2010

remembrances

… 3 years ago our talking stopped … the conversation is not over … it takes place here and there in my life and in my art … you are remembered, still here, with your art, your laughter, your spirit … I will come back to CT soon – and meet you here and there wihin the remembrances of friends and artist-colleagues … still miss you … with a SMILE …
UTA Göbel-Groß, 13 April 2010

Artworks Looks at Traditions of Past & Present Melvyn Minnar, Businessday September 2007

 
Madi Phala: The herd boy artist in his prime Chris Barron The Sunday Times 11 March 2007
 
Langa Artist brutally murdered.Jazz Concert to Honour His Name Tarzan Mbita

Phala se dood ruk kunsgemeenskap Liza Grobler, Die Burger
 

Arts community mourns tragic loss of Phala Melvyn Minnaar, Cape Times March 8 2007
 

Madi Phala: Obituary Cape Times 8 March 2007
 

Artist stabbled to death Thulani Magazi, Vukani 8 March 2007

 
Tin Hats
 

Honouring the brave


Local artists shine Melvyn Minnar 2005
 

Bayjula.By the People for the People

Art Education

Arts and crafts, Tlakula High School, Springs.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2007: Madi Phala: A Tribute Exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2005: Herdbooyz, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2005: Exhibition, Bag Factory, Johannesburg.
2004: Exhibition (mixed media collage and found object constructions), Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2005: Madi Phala & Nkoali Nawa, Claremont Renault Showroom, Cape Town.
2005: Encompass, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: 10 years of Democracy Renaissance, (project with Truworths, Hardground, BASA, Sanlam), Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: Three man show, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
1992: Three Man Show, Fedreated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Gallery, Johannesburg.
1985: Tributaries: a view of contemporary South African art, fka Africana Museum (now Museum Africa), Johannesburg.
1982: Exhibition, Shell House, Johannesburg.
1982: Exhibition, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
1979: Exhibition, Germiston Town Council, Germiston.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2005: SADC Artists, Thapong, Gaborone.
Phala was also part of a group show in France that served as a benefit for Gerard Sekoto.

Workshops & Residencies

2005: Studio Residency, Bag Factory, Johannesburg.
2004 - 2007: Studio Residency, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
1992: Triangle Workshop (with Triangle Network), United States.
1985 - 1992: Thupelo Workshops, South Africa.

Collections

French Embassy, South Africa.
De Beers, London.
Phala's work is also included in several private collections including those of former minister Pallo Jordan and art historian Barbara Lindop.

Publications

2004, 2005, 2005, 2006: Mario Pissarra, Botaki catalogues, Exhibitions 1 – 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
1992: E.J De Jager, Images of Man: Contemporary South African Black Art and Artists, East London: Fort Hare University Press.
1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, University of Michigan: Random House Incorporated.
1987: Matsemela Manaka, Echoes of African Art: A Century of Art in South Africa, Johannesburg: Skotaville Publishers.
1985: Ricky Burnett, Tributaries: A View of Contemporary South African Art, Johannesburg: BMW Kulturprogramm.

Madi Phala was also published in Staffrider numerous times.

Awards

1984: Jazz Art Poetry Appreciation Award.

Other

Member, Bayajula Arts Society (1975 - 1979).
Worked for SABC as a sound effects maker.
Founder, Arts Enhancement Programme. In this role, Madi Phala taught children art in his garage from 1992 - 1998. Amongst those he is credited with mentoring is the late Nhlanhla Xaba.
Isaac Nkululeko Makeleni

Isaac Nkululeko Makeleni

b.Vasco, Cape Town, 1950; d.Nyanga East, Cape Town, 2008.

A self-taught sculptor and painter with a history of involvement in community arts initiatives, Makeleni’s creative works are rich in allusions to historical, political and cultural themes.

Education

Nyanga Public Primary and Higher Schools (completed Standard 5/ Grade 7).
Self-taught artist

Exhibitions

2013 Against the Grain, Iziko South African National Gallery. Curated by Mario Pissarra. Featured works "Together Forever", "Together Forever II", "Cross", "Mandela and de Klerk", "Prescribed..." and "Fall of Nyanga Bush". Full-colour catalogue with essay on artist, published by ASAI.
2012 Siyakubona, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2011 A Natural Selection. 1991-2011, AVA. Curated by Clare Butcher. Featured work "Prescribed..."
2007 & Beyond Encryption, Cape Gallery.
2007 Africa South, AVA, Cape Town. Curated by Mario Pissarra. Featured work "Prescribed..."
2007 Exhibition to accompany international conference of Jungian psychologists, Cape Town International Conference Centre. Curated by Josie Grinrod and Kate Gottgens. Featured work "For Whom the Bell Tolls" purchased by the curator (Grinrod).
2007 Exhibition #1. Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth. Featured work "Together Forever (II)"
2006  Stop Crime awareness campaign, organised by City of Cape Town. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known
2005 Group exhibition, Zolani Centre, Nyanga. Sponsored by Old Mutual. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
2004 Masivuke ma Africa exhibition, Walter Teka School, Nyanga.
2004 Botaki. Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town. Curated by Mario Pissarra. Featured work "Together Forever (II)". Small illustrated catalogue.
2002 Human Rights Media Centre, Athlone. Exhibition listed on artists CV, details not known.
2002-03 Exhibition for opening ceremony of ICC cricket World Cup. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
2002 Umbono. Castle of Good Hope. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
2001 A Woman's Journey. Philani Nutrition Project exhibition, Castle of Good Hope. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
1999 One City, Many Cultures Festival. Makeleni co-ordinated group of artists who painted six street signs in Guguletu, organised by Public Eye. See http://www.public-eye.co.za/99-p4.html Listed in Artthrob, with photograph of artist http://www.artthrob.co.za/99sept/listings.html
1999 Masivuke ma Africa Calendar Exhibition, Zolani Centre, Nyanga. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known. (Unclear if same as 1997 entry for calendar exhibition at Zolani Centre, listed on another version of CV)
1998 Cape Town Arts Festival. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known (unclear if same as above)
1998 Group exhibition, Zolani Centre, Nyanga. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known (unclear if linked to mosaic exterior of Zolani Centre, which Makeleni participated in).
1997 Engaging the Shadows exhibition-project, Robben Island Museum. Colour photograph of two dolls produced by the artist featured along with listing in Mail & Guardian 6 February 1997.
1996 Primart Gallery, Claremont, Cape Town.
1996: Wood panel workshop and exhibition, AVA. Panel sold to unknown buyer.
1996 Community projects exhibition, South African National Gallery. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
1995 Exhibited his first "Black Doll" at Primart, Claremont.
1994 Twenty Pieces of wood, British Council, Cape Town. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
1993 Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
1993 Exhibited crafts at Red Shed, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town, as part of Masizakhe co-operative.
1993 Safmarine House, Cape Town. Exhibition listed on artist's CV, details not known.
1992-93 Made in Wood. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. Featured work "Sam Nujoma and Company". Catalogue includes b/w illustration of work and short biography.
1992 Visual Arts Group travelling exhibition at Zolani Centre, Nyanga; Uluntu Centre, Guguletu; Mayibuye Centre UWC; Centre for African Studies, UCT; and South African Association of Arts, Church Street. Featured several works, including "Mellow Yellow". Key role in running adult and childrens workshops at Zolani Centre.
1992 Mural painting exhibition- workshop, Baxter Theatre Gallery. Painted panel with Willie Bester and Vincent Silimela, purchased by Mayibuye Centre, UWC.
1991 [with Willie Bester and Ismael Thyssen], Gallery International, Cape Town. Featured several works, including "€œSam Nujoma and Company". Exhibition opened by Albie Sachs.
1991 Visual Arts Group travelling exhibition at Manenberg People's Centre; Zolani Centre, Nyanga; and Uluntu Centre, Guguletu. Featured several works including "Mandela and De Klerk": (Sold) and "Together Forever".
1987 Eye of the Artist, St Mary's Church, Guguletu. Organised by CAP students
1986 Primart Gallery, Claremont

Collections

Iziko Museums ("Seven Vices").
University of the Western Cape.
William Humphrey's Art Gallery, Kimberly.

Publications

Martin, Marilyn et al (1992) Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. ISBN 1 874817 07 3
Pissarra, Mario (2004) Botaki. Old Mutual asset Managers, Pinelands. Available online (click here) 
Pissarra, Mario (2011) (ed.) Visual Century: South African art in context. Vol 3: 1973-92. Wits University Press, Johannesburg. ISBN 978 1 86814 526 3. Introduction online (includes discussion of Makeleni)

Pissarra, M (2013) Against the Grain. ASAI, Cape Town, 64 pp. ISBN
978 0 620 57044 2

Other

1990 - c. 1993 Active member of Visual Arts Group Served on executive, including as chairperson.
c. 1992: Workshop for criminal offenders for Nicro, Mitchells plain. Run on behalf of Visual Arts Group.
c. 1992: Co-founder Masizakhe crafts co-operative.
1991: Member of Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO) delegations in talks with the South African National Gallery, South African Association of Arts, and City of Cape Town, concerning the democratisation of para-statal cultural institutions.
Early 1980s: Founded Makeleni Arts & Crafts
Early 1980s: briefly associated with Nyanga Arts Centre and Community Arts Project

Links

Isaac Makheleni Obituary on Artthrob
Zemba Luzamba

Zemba Luzamba

b. 1973, Lubumbashi; Lives in Cape Town.
Luzamba’s paintings have covered as much ground as he has travelled. Starting with works chronicling the hardships experienced by migrants, Luzamba went on to produce vivid images of the leisure spaces occupied by these communities. As well as this, his works reflect on power relations arising through gender and social class, and Congolese histories – both grand narratives, and the conditions of ordinary life.

“Zemba Luzamba merges images with ideas”, CNN African voices, 2018

Art Education

2018: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1993: Institut Technique d’Art Plastique (ITAP), Democratic Republic of Congo.
1994 - 1998: Diploma, Fine Art, Evelyn Home College of Applied Art & Commerce, Lusaka.

Solo Exhibitions

2023: Folk Ritual. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin.
2023: Kitendi. Galerie Studer, Dubai
2023: Totem. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town
2022: In the Name of….Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London.
2019: Connexion. EBONY/CURATED Cape Town.
2017: Deja Vu. 5th Picha Biennale de Lubumbashi, DR Congo
2017: In The South – Paintings from 2004-2017. Stellenbosch University Museum,
Stellenbosch
2016: Genesis. EBONY/CURATED. Franschhoek.
2015: It is What It Is. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2014: Exhibition. EBONY/ CURATED, Cape Town.
2013: La Sape. Association of Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2012: La Sape. Association of Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Hope for Refugees, Rome.
2004: Exhibition, Association for Visual Art Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2022: When We See Us: a century of black figurative in painting. Zeitz Museum of
Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), Cape Town.
2021: A Very Loop Street Summer. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2021: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, FNB Art Joburg, Open City,
Johannesburg.
2021: 8 by 8. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2021: Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Virtual Representation, EBONY/CURATED,
Cape Town.
2021: In [the] Loop. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2020: FNB Art Joburg online edition, Main Booth, Johannesburg
2019: A Smaller Scale. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2019: Investec Cape Town Art Fair. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2018: The Summer Exhibition. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2017: From the Horse’s Mouth. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2016: Beyond Binaries. Essence Festival, Durban.
2015: That Art Fair. Cape Town.
2015: In Print/In Focus. Michealis Galleries, Cape Town.
2014: Inner Nature. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2014: Emergence. EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2013: First Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2013: Perspectives & Dramascapes with Wycliffe Mundopa, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town.
2013: Association for Visual Art Gallery. Cape Town.
2008: Soul of Africa, Development Bank of South Africa, Johannesburg.
2007: Africa South, Association for Visual Art (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: Blank Projects, Cape Town.
2007: Sanlam Gallery. Baxter Theatre, Cape Town.
2006: A Journey Together, Voyage Ensemble, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town.
2006: Picasso and Africa, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town.
2005: Il Pezo Politico Dei Migranti, Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town.
2003: Xenophobia, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2023: Where the Wild Roses Grow. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne.
2023: You Look Hard Enough You Can See Our Future. African American Museum,
Dallas.
2023: Tomorrow is Tomorrow is Tomorrow. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London.
2022: Shout Plenty, the African Artists Foundation, Lagos.
2022: AAGA Annual African Galleries Now online edition powered by Artsy, Africa
2022:Untitled Miami Beach. with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Miami.
2021: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. EBONY/CURATED booth, London.
2021: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. (Virtual Representation) EBONY/CURATED, New York.
2020: Intersect Chicago online edition of SOFA Expo, Chicago
2019: AKAA (Also Known As Africa), Art and Design Fair, Paris.
2013: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London.
2011: Art for Africa Auction, Sotheby’s, New York.
2008: Harare International Festival of Arts, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare.
2005: Il Pezo Politico Dei Migranti, Santa Mostre Sangallo, Piacenza.
1996: P.E.L (Agricultural company art patron), Lusaka.
1995: Visual Art Council, Lusaka.

Publications

2019: Kirsty Cockerill, 'Dress Code: the politics of dress, oppression and self-determination in the works of Zemba Luzamba', Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI)
2015: The Guardian Newspaper (25/03), Financial Times, London 
2015: Anna Stielau,''It Is What It Is': Zemba Luzamba at EBONY', Art Africa, South Africa 
2015: Danny Shorkend, 'Luzamba's 'Inexpressive disutopia'',
2010: Mario Pissarra, 'Migrant Perspectives: The Art of Zemba Luzamba', Critical Interventions, 4:1, 102 - 107.
2005: South African Art Diary.

Commissions

2009: Nandos, London.
2002: New Royal Hotel, Blantyre, Malawi.

Collections

Cultures Inc., California.
Scalabrini House (Bassano Del Grappa), Cape Town.
Nandos, London.
Private collections: Italy, United States of America, South Africa.

Links

From Giants to Heavy Metal, Contemporary art in pictures, The Gaurdian
Africa Month talk - May 2015
‘It Is What It Is:’ Zemba Luzamba at EBONY, Art Africa

It Is What It Is – Ebony Gallery, Cape Town 2015. Exhibition catalogue.
Zemba-Catalogue1

Migrant Perspectives: The Art of Zemba Luzamba – essay by Mario Pissarra
CI Zemba

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet.
“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet. Zemba

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006.
“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006 - Zemba

Khanyisile Mawhayi, Zemba Luzamba: Postcolonial identities in motion, (ASAI, 2021)

Kirsty Cockerill, Dress Code: the politics of dress, oppression and self-determination in the works of Zemba Luzamba, (ASAI, 2019).

Xolile Mtakatya

b. Cape Town, 1968

Xolile Mtakatya’s works capture the cacophonic, quasi-apocalyptic everyday of Black social life in South African townships. By employing bright, sometimes jarring colour, bold lines, and by crowding his compositions with elements, Mtakatya’s images  engage the viewer’s full sensorial range, somewhat exceeding the flat plains of their surfaces.

Personal History

Mtakatya began drawing on the walls while a political detainee in 1986. As a youth activist in the late 80s and early 90s, he ran art and media workshops in his community and taught screen-printing to unemployed mothers, with the Philani Project. He also ran media training workshops for the African National Congress, and was an active member of the Visual Arts Group (1988 - 1993).

Arts Education

1993: Diploma, Fine Art, Foundation School of Art, Cape Town.
1987 - 1989: Part-time student, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2005: Episodes, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
1993: Diploma show, Foundation School of Art, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2010: Creative Block: 150 artists, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town. Embassy of Spain, Cape Town.
2010: 1910-2010 From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2009: Art from Southern Africa, Anglican Aids and Healthcare Trust, Cape Town.
2009: Isibane, Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
2009: Winter Solstice, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2008 Desire, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2008: 16th Annual Salon, Rose Korber Art, Cape Town.
2007: Why Collect, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: ReCenter, Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha.
2007: & Beyond Encryption, Cape Gallery, Cape Town
2005: Botaki: Exhibition 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: Finding You, Association for Visual Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: 14th Annual Salon, Rose Korber Art, Cape Town.
2003: Trilogy: Innocence, Awakening and Fulfillment, Sanlam Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Cats, Rose Art Consultancy, Cape Town.
2000: Itheko lokuza nethemba elitsha (A Celebration for Bringing New Hope), Bell-Roberts Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: Xolile Mtakatya/ Lundi Mduba, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: Trans Figurative, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Visual Arts Group Travelling Exhibition, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
1988: End Conscription Campaign, Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town.
1987: Exhibition, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1986: Eye of an Artist, St. Gabriels Catholic Church, Gugulethu, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2004: Assemblage, The affordable Art Show, Batttersea.
2004: The ID of South African Artists, Fortis Circustheater, Scheveningen.
1999: Conflux, Tendances Mikado Gallery, Luxemburg.
1998: Art Beyond Borders, City Hall, Augsburg.
1997: Liberation in South African Art, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham.
1993: Manyano, Museo Etnografico Azul, Buenos Aires.
1990 - 1991: Art from South Africa, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; Aberdeen City Art Gallery; Royal Festival Hall, London; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Bolton Art Gallery, Lancashire.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Old Mutual, Cape Town.
Spier Art Collection, Stellensbosch.
Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary (SMAC) Gallery, Stellenbosch.
Nandos, London.
Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.

(Mtakatya's work is also included in numerous private collections in South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany and the United States of America.)

Workshops & Residencies

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2018: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2005: Thupelo International Workshop, AMAC - Arts and Media Access Centre (fka Community Arts Project), Cape Town.
2001: Residency, Caversham Press, KwaZulu-Natal.
2000: Thupelo International Workshop, Goedgedacht Centre, Malmesbury.
2000: Mural Global Agenda 21, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Hagen; Aachen.
1999: Thapong International Artists Workshop, Gaborone.
1999: Mural Global Agenda 21, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Essen; Arte-Mobile - mural painting on a truck, Osnabruck.

Publications

2009: Cape Times, May 21.
2008: SA Art Times, issue 11 vol. 3, November.
2006: Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversations with Tyrone Appollis, (catalogue) Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: J Van den Ende & S Khan (eds), Identity: The ID of South African Artists, Stichting Art & Theatre, Amsterdam. 2004: Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Conversations with Timothy Mafenuka, (catalogue) Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
1999: Project Conflux, (catalogue) Association for Visual Art, Cape Town.
1990: E David, Art from South Africa, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.

Links

Profile; Cape Gallery website
Profile; Rose Korber Art website
Velile Soha

Velile Soha

b. 1957, Cape Town, South Africa; lives in Cape Town.

Working largely as a printmaker – in wood block, linocut and silkscreen – Velile Soha’s works depict figures engaged in everyday labour and recreational processes, from mine work to guitar-playing. A prevalent theme in his practice is the convergence of the lives and worlds of township residents with those of rural communities, and the historical processes that have created these spaces and caused them inevitable overlap and mixing.

Art Education

1981 - 1983: ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu-Natal.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

1998: Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2011: Thupelo Printmaking Workshop, Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town.
2010: These Four Walls Fine Art, (with Leboana Lefuma), Cape Town.
2010: Creative Block: 150 artists, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Embassy of Spain, Bishopscourt, Cape Town.
2010: Winter 2010, Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2010: Gill Alderman Gallery (with Sophie Peters, Donovan Ward, Selvin November, Dathini Mzayiya), Cape Town.
2007: Africa South, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: Art in Business, Artscape, Cape Town.
2006: Keep Time (with Sipho Hlati and Madi Phala), Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: Botaki 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: A Sense of Place, Masibambisane High School, Cape Town.
2005: Encompass, Cape Gallery, Cape Town. Botaki 2, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2002: Art Kites Project, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Homecoming, Guga S’Thebe, Cape Town.
1999: From Pisces into Aquarius, Idasa Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: Jill Trappler/ Velile Soha, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: British Council, Cape Town.
1992: Shell House, Cape Town.
1991: The Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch.
1991: Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town.
1990: Group Exhibition, Baxter Theatre Gallery, Cape Town.
1989: The Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch. 
1987: American Centre, Cape Town.
1986: Good Hope Centre, Cape Town.
1985: Bhekuzulu Hall, University of Zululand, Richard's Bay.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2009: Contemporary Prints from South Africa, Cultural Arts Center of Douglasville, Douglasville.
2006: Cape Town: Contemporary Prints by Sipho Hlati, Velile Soha and Ernestine White, Polvo Art Studio, Chicago.
2004: The ID of South African Artists, Fortis Circustheatre, Scheveningen, Netherlands.
2004: Memorias de un Mexicano: Homage to Francisco Mora, Beacon Street Gallery and Theatre, Chicago; Elgin Community College, Illinois.
2002: The Hourglass Project: Journey, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Georgia State University, Georgia.
1996: Galerie Gabriel, Amsterdam.
1994: University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton.
1994:The Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek.
1993: Manyano, Museo Etnografico Azul, Buenos Aires.
1989: Eli Marsh Gallery, New York.
1988: Mousun Turn, Frankfurt.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery
Western Cape Provincial Government
Creative Block
Truworths
(And numerous private collections).

Workshops, Residencies and Other Involvement

1999 - 2010: Residency, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
2006: Thupelo International Workshop, Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu-Natal.
2004: Renaissance Printmaking Workshop, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
2004: Thupelo Regional Workshop, Lwazi Centre, Cape Town.
2001 - 2004: Teacher, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
2002: The Caversham Press, KwaZulu-Natal.
2003: Thupelo International Workshop, Malmesbury.
1999: Tulipamwe International Artists Workshop, Windhoek.
1998: Thupelo Regional Workshop, Annexe, Iziko SA National Gallery, Cape Town.
1994: Thupelo Regional Workshop, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1994: Teacher, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1993: Thupelo Workshop, Johannesburg.
1993: Thupelo Workshop, Pretoria.
1970s: Associated with the Nyanga Art Centre, (teaching, working, etc).

Commissions

Velile Soha has been commissioned to make illustrations for eight books, including for Oxford University Press. He has also made illustrations for calendars by companies Engen, Caltex and Truworths. He was part of a group that received commissions from the Department of Health, for an HIV/ Aids Education mural in Gugulethu, and the Cape Town City Council, for murals in Nyanga Junction as well as ceramic murals for Guga S'Thebe in Langa.

Publications

2021: Sule Ameh James, Sociocultural themes in the art of Velile Soha, ASAI.
2006: Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversations with Tyrone Appollis, Old Mutual Asset Managers (exhibition catalogue), Cape Town.
2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters, Old Mutual Asset Managers (exhibition catalogue), Cape Town.
2004: T Van den Ende & S Khan (eds), Identity: The ID of South African Artists, Stichting Art & Theatre, Amsterdam.
2003: P Hobbs & E Rankin, Rorkes Drift: Empowering Prints - Twenty Years of Printmaking in South Africa, Juta Publishing, Cape Town.
1997: P Hobbs & E Rankin, Printmaking in a transforming South Africa, David Philip, Cape Town & Johannesburg.
1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, Thames and Hudson, London.
1988: Gavin Younge, 'The Next Million Years', In Leadership (Johannesburg) 7(5) 58-60 & 63-66.

Links

Profile on Cape Gallery website
Tyrone Appollis

Tyrone Appollis

b. Cape Town, 1957

Visual artist, musician and poet since the 1970s, Appollis works explore the interface between the challenges of the everyday and the limitlessness of the spirit and imagination.

Art Education

1978-1987: Mostly self-taught, part-time student at Community Arts Project.

Residencies

2004 Pro Helvetia Residency, Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland.

1989 Toured Europe on British Council grant.

Exhibitions (solo)

2010 The Framery Gallery, Sea Point, Cape Town.

2008 These houses we live in, Irma Stern Museum, UCT, Cape Town.2006: Yesterday and Today, Sanlan Art Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.

2001 No Apologies, Association for Visual Art, Cape Town.

1997 AVA, Cape Town.

1993 Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg.

1992 Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town.

1988 South African Association of Art, Cape Town.

1982 Rocklands Library, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.

Exhibitions (group)

2010 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. International Museum Day, George Museum, George, South Africa.

2009 Precedents and Currents, Mayibuye Centre, UWC, Bellville, Cape Town. Decade, Sanlam Art Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.

2007 africa south, AVA, Cape Town.

2006 Self portraits, Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town. Botaki 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Pinelands, Cape Town. Boland Kelder (with Garth Erasmus and Sophie Peters), Paarl.

2005 Botaki 2, OMAM; Botaki 3, OMAM, Cape Town.

2004 Arty milk cans, AVA, Cape Town.

2000 Itheko lokuza nethemba elitsha (A Celebration for Bringing New Hope), Bell-Roberts Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.

1999 Post Cards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York.

1996 Cognizance, Ingqwalasela, Herkening., AVA, Cape Town.

1993 Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris. I wish you well on your way (Tribute to John Muafangejo), Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town.

1991 Cape Town Triennial, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

1990 Freedom Now, Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek, Namibia.

1989 Rahmen Gallerie (with Peter Clarke and Ishmael Thyssen), Langei, Germany.

1988 Artists against Apartheid, Luxurama Theatre, Wynberg, Cape Town.

Performances (poetry reading and music)

2010 Geroeste Musiek, Tyrone in Concert, Artscape, Athlone Civic Centre, Cape Town.

2009 Cape Town Book Fair (reading to children his new story The Silver Saxophone and The Magic Paintbrush), CTICC, Cape Town. Tyrone’s Geroeste Musiek, Voorkamer Fesival, Darling, Cape Town.

2008 Cape Town Book Fair, book launch, Train to Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. Poetry Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.

2007 Joe Schaffers and fellow musicians (with Tyrone Appollis and Boeta Katjie), District Six Museum, Cape Town.

Public collections

Iziko South African National Gallery, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape; Western Cape Provincial Government; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; South Africa House, London; Department of Education, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital; Constitutional Court of South Africa; SASOL and SANLAM.

Private collections

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Judge Albie Sachs, former President Nelson Mandela and former President Thabo Mbeki.

Commissions

2007 Ingrid Jonker Memorial, Gordon’s Bay, Cape Town. Sunday Tmes Heritage Project.

2006 Woolworths bags, Cape Town.

2004 Mural painting, Bridgeville Primary School, Cape Town.

1998 J&B Metropolitan Horse Race poster.

1997 City of Cape Town (painting for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Freedom of the City).

1996 SA Gourmet Festival poster.

Publications (books, magazines, newspapers, videos and catalogues)

2010 Friends pitch in for jazz maestro cancer

2009 Cultural vagabond has his own flair, Cape Times, August 27. T Appollis, The Silver Saxophone, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. Appollis & Maclay-Mayers, The Magic Paintbrush, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. S Hundt (ed.), Decade, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville (exhibition catalogue).

2008 Tyrone Appollis, Train to Mitchells Plain, Tyrone Appollis, Cape Town. Appollis art exhibition, Cape Times, September 9.

2006 S Hundt (ed.), Tyrone Appollis-Today and yesterday, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville. Appollis presents a study of contradictions, Cape Argus, September 1. Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversation with Tyrone Appollis, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue).

2005 C Blum, Kapkunst/Cape Art: 12 Portraits of South African Artists, Murmann, Hamburg. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters, OMAM, Cape Town.

2004 M Darrol et. al, Art for Aids Orphans Auction, Paperpback, Cape Town. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Conversations with South African artists, OMAM, Cape Town. The rights of a child, Kwela Books, Cape Town & Lemniscaat, Rotterdam.

2003 McGee and Voyiya, The Luggage is Still Labelled: Blackness in South african Art (dvd).

1993 M Martin et. al, Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

1991 C Till et. al, Cape Town Triennial, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Cape Town. Tribute Magazine. A Sitas, William Zungu-Xmas Story, Buchu Books, Cape Town.

1988 G Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Everard Read, Johannesburg. A Oliphant, Ten Years of Staffrider, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. R Rive, Emergency, David Philip Publishers, Claremont.

Links

Profile on Cape Gallery website

 

Train to Mitchells Plain Tyrone Appollis

2008. ISBN-13: 978-0620411387

 
Bold Strokes for the suffering Suzy Bell. Cape Times. 13 June 2012

 

Conversations with Tyrone Appollis [essay written for exhibition catalogue]

This essay was written for Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversations with Tyrone Appollis curated by Mario Pissarra for Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town, 2005

Timothy Mafenuka

Timothy Mafenuka

Timothy Mafenuka (1966-2003) was born in Guguletu but raised in Tsomo in the Eastern Cape. He returned to live in Cape Town in 1982, settling soon after in Khayelitsha. Self-taught, Mafenuka’s imaginative art provides an enchanted view of the natural world, expressed through a creative use of materials.

Education

Self taught. Informally mentored by Xolile Mtakatya.
Several regional Thupelo Artists Workshops.

Exhibitions (solo)

2003 ‘Miracle of the Universe’, Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town.
2003 DC Art, Cape Town
1992 Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Exhibitions (group)

2007 Exhibition #1. Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth.
2007 Exhibition to accompany international conference of Jungian psychologists, Cape Town International Conference Centre. Curated by Josie Grinrod and Kate Gottgens.
2004 ‘Botaki’, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Pinelands, Cape Town.
2001 ‘Imbizo-Gathering’, AVA, Cape Town.
2001 ‘Homecoming’, Gug’Sthebe, Langa, Cape Town.
2001 Alfred Mall Gallery, Waterfront, Cape Town.
1997 St. Stephen Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town.
1993 ‘Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape’, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1992 Visual Arts Group, Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa;
1992 Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
1992 30 Sculptors from the Western Cape, US Gallery

Collections

South African National Gallery; numerous private collections in South Africa and abroad.

Commissions

Woolworths.

Publications

2013 Mario Pissarra, 'Against the Grain’, Cape Town : Africa South Art Initiative.
2004 Mario Pissarra, ‘Botaki: Conversations with Timothy Mafenuka’, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2003 Martin, Proud et al (1993); Big Issue
1993 Martin, Marilyn; Proud, Hayden; et al, ‘Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape’, South African National Gallery, Cape Town

Miracle of the Universe

© Mario Pissarra, 1/12/2005

Miracle of the Universe in the context of African sculpture

It is widely believed that South Africa and most of its neighbors have little of a wood sculpture “tradition” to compare in quality and interest with the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed it was only after the landmark exhibition “Tributaries” that South African wood sculptors really registered on the map. However while Tributaries redrew the boundaries for “sub-Saharan wood sculpture” it inadvertently created the impression that wood sculpture in South Africa was largely an isolated pocket of cultural expression (i.e. a phenomenon that, to the layperson, was defined ethnically and geographically as “Venda wood sculpture”).

There have been sporadic attempts to balance this position, by for example exhibitions at the SANG (Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape) and in KZN (at DAG & the African Art Centre). However these efforts can be considered only moderately successful, in so far as some of South Africa’s finest wood sculptors continue to languish in the margins, while all of the wood sculptors represented in Tributaries have gone on to enjoy considerable opportunity and success. [1]

Miracle of the Universe in the context of the life and art of Timothy Mafenuka (1966-2003)

Born in Guguletu, Mafenuka spent much of his childhood in the rural village of Tsomo in the Eastern Cape where as a herd boy he carved wooden sticks and spoons. After completing his schooling he moved back to Cape Town (c.1982) to look for work. He worked as a fisherman in Namibia and the Eastern Cape, and as a chef at the Cape Sun. In Khayelitsha he came into contact with other local artists, notably Xolile Mtakatya, and by the early 90s he was working as a full-time artist. In the 90s he participated in several group exhibitions, including those of the Visual Arts Group. No less than five of his early works were selected by the SANG for its Made in Wood exhibition in 1992, and one was purchased for their permanent collection. A genuinely self-taught artist, Mafenuka’s qualities were recognised by the Thupelo Workshop who invited him to attend several regional workshops and one international one.

A dapper dresser with trademark pipe and brimmed hat, Mafenuka’s art differed from most of his contemporaries in that he used unorthodox materials that he often combined with wood (including shells, glass, sand, and rubber). However it was not only his lack of exposure to art education from NGO’s such as CAP, and his choice of materials that set him apart from of his contemporaries. Enchanted by the twin joys of life and the act of creation Mafenuka avoided the dominant themes of poverty and protest. In their place he developed a magical world of the imagination, ably expressed through his evocative imagery, striking use of materials, and (particularly in his prints and paintings) a vibrant use of colour.

As enterprising as he was innovative and resourceful Mafenuka’s lyrical mono-prints and smaller sculptures can still be found in small galleries across the Cape. He was also one of the few “St Georges Mall artists” who took a small shop for himself at the Pan-African Market. In recent years he held two solo shows, unfortunately both at low-key venues (DC Art, Cape Town; and according to his family another in Pietermaritzburg). When he fell ill last year a retrospective exhibition was organised on his behalf at Greatmore Studios.

Mafenuka’s crowning achievement as an artist has never been seen by a wide audience. His forte was wood sculpture, and c. 1992 he produced his first large totemic sculpture. In total he made only six of these. Three of them were bought by private collectors (from the UK, Japan, and Cyprus). Three remain in the collection of the family. The most ambitious of these is “Miracle of the Universe” which stands at over eight feet tall. That he knew he had created something special is not only evident in the title, but also in the fact that his signature appears no less than three times on the work!

Mario Pissarra 16 February 2004

Originally written as a motivation for the purchase of Miracle of the Universe by the South African National Gallery. The motivation was successful.

[1] With the tragic exception of Nelson Mukhuba

 

Themba Shibase

Themba Shibase

b. Port Shepstone, 1980. Lives in Durban

Shibase’s work is anchored in questions around identity and authenticity, negotiating the seemingly disparate practices of ancestral heritage and urban culture.

Arts Education

2009: Masters of Technology, Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2004: Bachelor of Technology, Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2003: National Diploma, Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, Durban.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2009: Hybrid Culture II, Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
2008: Rush hour, (multi-media installation), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2008: Umhlaba Kabani/ Whose Land?, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2008: The Skeptic, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban.
2005: D’Urban Critique, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2010: Harbouring Histories, Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
2009: Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
2009: New Connections (Durban University of Technology staff exhibition), KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban.
2008: MTN New Contemporaries, University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg.
2008: Home is my Castle, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2007: About the surface, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban.
2007: From Here to There, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2007: Spier Contemporary 2007, Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch.
2007: Art seasons, Franschoek, Cape Town.
2006: Form and Substance, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2006: New Painting, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban
2006: University of South Africa (UNISA) Art Gallery, Pretoria.
2006: Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Graduate Show, Durban University of Technology Art Gallery, Durban.
2005: Surface, Franchise Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Red Eye, (video installation), Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2005: Being Here, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery Gallery, Durban.
2004: The legacy of Trevor Makhoba, BAT Centre, Durban.
2004: Black, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery, Durban.
2004: Summer Show, African Arts Centre, Durban.
2003: Crimes of passion, Bean Bag Bohemia Arts Cafe, Durban.
2003: Summer Show, BAT Centre, Durban.
2003: Margate Open, Margate Art Gallery, Durban.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2009: Living in KZN, artSPACE, Berlin, Germany.
2008: The New Spell, David Krut Fine Art, New York.

Workshops & Residencies

2004: Art for humanity, Amsterdam, Holland.
2004: Building leadership through creative process, Caversham Centre Creative Arts and Writers, Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal.

Collections

Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
University of South Africa (UNISA) Art Gallery, Pretoria.

Publications

2009: Sean O’Toole, Zuma takes the biscuit, 'Financial Mail', February 13.
2009: Estelle Sinkins, Creative young artists, 'The Witness', October 15.
2008: Peter Machen, The art cowboy, 'South African Art Times', October, p.10.
2005: Alexander Sudheim, Exultant expressionism, Art South Africa, vol. 04, issue 02, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.
2005: Amanda Alexander (eds), Problematising Resistance, Centre for Civil Society, Research Reports, vol. 2, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Durban.

Awards

2008: Nomination, MTN New Contemporaries (one of the four finalists), Johannesburg Art Gallery.
2007: Nomination, Spier Contemporary 2007, Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch.

Other

2008: Mentor, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Nivea Art Award, Durban.
Acquisition Committee member, Durban Art Gallery
Council member, African Art Centre, Durban.
Online Newsletter editor, Art for humanity.
2004 - 2005: Curator, Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
2003 - 2005: Art teacher, HIVAN-UKZN, Durban.
2002 - 2005: Part-time art teacher, Africa Art Centre, Durban.
2003: Part-time art teacher, Natal Arts and Craft School for the Disabled, Durban.
2002: Part-time art teacher, Eddington Primary School, Durban.
Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi

Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi

b. 1954, Johannesburg, South Africa; lives in Johannesburg.

Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi is a graphic artist and illustrator, best known for his representations of political themes, published in progressive media in the 1970s and 1980s. Flexible across drawing and print media, Nhlabatsi’s images have accompanied works by Es’kia Mphahlele, Chabani Manganyi and others, have appeared in texts by Black publishing House Skotaville, and have featured multiple times in anti-apartheid publication Staffrider. The artist currently runs a digital art studio in Soweto.

Peoples College Comics - Down Second Avenue

 

Down Second Avenue

Illustrations by Mzwakhe Nhlabatsi
Original script by Lesley Lawson. Edited by Joyce Ozynski.

Activities prepared by Joan Hoffman, edited by Barbara Hutton and Helene Perold.
Designed by Mary Anne Bahr and Zaidah Abrahams
Typsetting by Jenny Stanfield, Sached production department

Published by Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd
First impression 1988
The Sached Trust
ISBN 0 86975 329 4
Printed by Creda Press, Cape Town

Education

1994 - 1997: Various computer training courses, Hirt & Carter training school, Parkhill Technologies, Johannesburg.
1993: Management of Book Production, British Consulate, Johannesburg.
1988: Creative Publications Design, SACHED Trust, Johannesburg.
1980: Archie Legatts Fashion Academy, Johannesburg.
1976 - 1977: ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu-Natal.
1970 - 1971: Mofolo Art Centre (under Dan Rakgoathe), Soweto.
1969 - 1972: Jubilee Art Centre (under Bill Hart), Johannesburg.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

1972: Exhibition, Gallery of African Art, Johannesburg.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2006: Ubuntu - Striving for life and peace, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
1981: Black art today, Jabulani Standard Bank, Soweto.
1979: Contemporary African art in South Africa, De Beers Centenary Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare, Alice.
1976: New in the sun, Auden House, Johannesburg.
1975: Tribute to courage, Diakonia House, Johannesburg.
1974: Group of six, Atlantic Art Gallery, Cape Town. 
1972: Art of the townships, Gallery of African Art, Johannesburg.

Group Exhibitions (international)

1975: Young artists, International Play Group Inc., Union Carbide Building, New York.
1974: Group of six, Botswana National Museum, Gaborone.

Publications (illustrations)

1988: Down Second Avenue: The comic, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. Maria Mabetoa, A visit to my grandfather's farm, Ravan Press, Johannesburg.
1987: Staffrider, vol. 6 no. 4, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. Mbulawa A. Mahlangu, Igugu lamaNdebele, Skotaville Publishers, Johannesburg.
1986: Gabriel Setiloane, African theology: An introduction, Skotaville Publishers, Johannesburg.
1985: Essop Patel (ed), The world of Nat Nakasa, Ravan Press, Johannesburg.
1984: Eskia Mphahlele, Father come home, Ravan Press, Johannesburg.
1983: Bheki Maseko, The night of long knives, Staffrider, vol. 5 no. 3.
1982: Mbulelo Mzamane, The children of Soweto, Harlow: Longman, Cape Town. Eskia Mphahlele, Over my dead body, Staffrider, vol. 4 no. 4, pp 10-12. Mothobi Mutloatse, Mama ndiyalila, Ravan Press, Johannesburg.
1979: Chabani Manganyi, Looking through the key hole, Ravan Press, Johannesburg.

Publications (books, exhibition reviews)

2004: Elza Miles, Polly Street: The story of an art centre, The Ampersand Foundation, New York.
1992: E. J. De Jager, Images of Man: Contemporary South African Black art and artists, Fort Hare University Press, Alice.
1975: Elliot Makhaya and Eric Mani, Art in the Van Gogh tradition, The World newspaper, Thursday, July 10. Vusi Khumalo, Big Art show for Jo'burg City, The World newspaper, September 18, p 11. Elliot Makhaya, Mum doesn't appreciate, The World newspaper, Wednesday, March 12.
1974: Eldren Green, Black artists, The Argus, October 17. Group of six at the Atlantic, Cape Times, October 22.

Other

current: Runs a computer generated digital art studio in Soweto.

1999 - 2005: Senior industrial technician, Gauteng Provincial Government, Johannesburg.
1987 - 1998: Graphic artist, Maskew Miller Longman, Johannesburg.
1986 - 1993: Graphic artist, SACHED Trust, Johannesburg.
1986 - 1987: Graphic artist, The Graphic Equaliser, Johannesburg.
1979 - 1981: Graphic artist, SACHED Trust (Turret College), Johannesburg.
1978 - 1979: Make-up artist, Hollywood Display (Multiform), Johannesburg.
1978: Art teacher, The Open school, Johannesburg.
1974: Art teacher, YWCA Vukuzenzele Children's Art Centre, Soweto.

Awards

1979: UTA Airways Fashion Design Competition, Johannesburg.
1970: Merit prize, Chamber of Commerce art competition, Johannesburg.

Collections

De Beers Centenary Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare.

Links

http://www.muziwakhenhlabatsi.blogspot.co.za/

Sophie Peters

b. 1968, Johannesburg, South Africa; lives in Cape Town.

Printmaker, painter and musician, Sophie Peters’ images reflect her personal history, her spiritual connections, and her relationship to the places and times in which she grew up, and continues to live.

Sophie Die Heldersiende KunstenaarDalena Van Jaarveld Kuier. 25 November 2009

Beyond Borders. Voyage Ensemble Sipho Velaphi & Linda Nkosi Ngwenya. Rootz. 2007

A cry from the heart: Sophie Peters

Her days are numbered Sanlam Exhibition

Black Artists Exhibit:Truth,reconciliation in art Lloyd Pollak. Cape Times. 29 September 1999


Breek of baas Marie Claire. June 1997

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Resolute Sophie Fulfills her dream The Argus. 14 June 1995

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Life’s experiences as art Gareth Van Blerk. June 1995

Life and art: Sophie’s choice Shannon Neill. South Side 9. April 1994

Sophie Skets’wat sy voel’ Shireen Adams. Metro- Burger. Dongerdag. 25 November 1993

Sophie Peters. Group Show

 

 

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet.

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet. Sophie

 

“voyage ensemble, a journey together” , scalabrini centre, cape town 2006

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006 - Sophie

 

Conversations with Sophie Peters [essay for exhibition catalogue]

This essay featured in the catalogue for Botaki Exhibition 3: Conversations with Sophie Peters, an exhibition curated by Mario Pissarra for Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town , 2005 

 

Art Education

1994: Advanced Teacher Training, Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town.
1988: Ceramics training with Barbara Jackson, Cape Town.
1986 - 1987: Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2007: Hand To Plough Landscapes, The Framery Gallery, Cape Town.
1994: Cry from the Heart, Belville Association of Arts, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2010: 1910-2010: From Pieneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Exhibition, Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth, Cape Town.
2008: Provoke, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2008: Some South African Voices, Rose Korber Art Consultancy, Cape Town.
2007: africa south, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: Art in Business, Artscape, Cape Town.
2006: Face (In) Cape Town, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
2006: A Journey Together, Voyage Ensemble, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town.
2005: Botaki: Exhibition 2, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: Botaki: Exhibition 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Her Story, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town. 2004: Renaissance, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: A Decade of Democracy, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2003: Dreams of Our Daughters, Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn.
2001: The Hourglass Project: A Women’s Vision, Art on Paper, Johannesburg; UNISA Gallery, Pretoria.
2001: Homecoming, Guga S’Thebe, Cape Town.
2000: How the Land Lies, Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town.
2000: Greatmore Studios Official Opening, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
1999: Print Exchange 1998-1999: Portfolio for Playing Cards, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; Gencor Gallery, Johannesburg.
1999: Ten Years of Printmaking, Hard Ground Printmakers, Sanlam Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1998: Siwela Ngaphesheya, Crossing the water, Robben Island Museum, Robben Island.
1998: Ekhaya, travelling exhibition, Western Cape.
1998: Dis Nag - The Cape’s Hidden Roots in Slavery, Iziko South African Cultural History Museum, Cape Town.
1998: Recent Publications, Hard Ground Printmakers, Grahamstown Festival, Grahamstown.
1997: Recent Publications, Hard Ground Printmakers, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: Body Politic,Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1996: Human Rights, South African Cultural History Museum, Cape Town.
1996: Barricaded Rainbow, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1996: Artists Against Apartheid, Parliament, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994: Creating Image, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
1993: South Africa in Black and White, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1993: Picturing Our World, Grahamstown Festival, Grahamstown; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1993: Women on Women, Seef Trust Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1992: Looking Back, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1992: Visual Arts Group Travelling Exhibition, Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Uluntu centre, Gugulethu; Mannenberg People's Centre; Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
1992: Tapestry Wall, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
1991: Visual Arts Group Travelling Exhibition, Cape Town.
1991: Transition, Baxter Theatre Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Art in the Avenue, Cape Town.
1989: Nude, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town.
1989: Serendipity, Gallery, Cape Town.
1987: Invited Artists, Johannesburg Art Foundation.
1987: Volkskas Atelier Exhibition, Cape Town.
1986: The Eye of an Artist, Gugulethu.
1986: Young Blood, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2008: Mapping Cultural Echoes - Voyage Ensemble, Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA), Harare.
2001: Canada.
2000: Germany. Iceland.
1998: Artist for Africa, Sweden.
1997 - 1998: Sicula Sixhentsa Xa Sisonke – The South Africa Aesthetic, (USA travelling exhibition), Mississippi, Detroit, New York.
1995: Peace for Africa, Geneva.
1994: Exhibition, (USA travelling exhibition), Brooklyn, Massachussets.
1994: Relief in Black and White, Brighton Festival, Brighton.
1990: Zabalaza Festival, Institute for Contemporary Art, London

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg.
Western Cape Provincial Government, Cape Town.
Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape.

Sophie Peters also has work in private collections in South Africa, Europe, the United States of America and Australia.

Commissions (mural painting and book illustrations)

2007: four paintings, Safmarine, Cape Town.
2005 - 2004: mural, Pentecostal Rapha Mission.
2004: Cape Span, Sea Point Protea Hotel, Cape Town.
1998: illustrations, Puleng and the Pumpkin, (children’s book).
1998: illustrations, Hair, (children’s book).
1998: linoprints, Truworths’ Millenium Calendar.
1997: illustration, True Love at Last, (Ginwala Dowling book).
1997: illustation, No More Stars in my Roof, (Ginwala Dowling book).
1997: illustation, The Original Natural Living Diary.
1996: mural, Robben Island Museum, Cape Town.
1996: mural, District Museum, Cape Town.
1996: mural, Department of Health, Cape Town.
1996: mural, Mayibuye Centre, University of Western Cape, Cape Town.
1996: book cover illustration, The Black Sash Trust Annual Report.
1996: illustration, Day by Day - English Pupils’ Book 5 (M. Niller Longman book).
1993 - 1994: mural, (with Tshidi Sefako and Xolile Mtakatya), Nico Malan Opera House, Cape Town.
1991: mural, Transitions, (with members of Hard-Ground Printmakers Workshop), Baxter Gallery, Cape Town.
1990: four murals, (in collaboration with other artists), Zabalaza Festival, London.
1989: murals (in collaboration with other artists), Community House, Salt River, Cape Town.

Workshops & Residencies

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2018: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2006: Community Art Workshop, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
2004: Renaissance Printmaking Workshop, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
2001: Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
2001: Caversham Press, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
2000: Print 2000, Maastricht, Netherlands.
1997: Printmaking Project, Robben Island, Cape Town.
1990: Zabalaza Festival, London.

Publications (books, magazines, catalogues)

2008: SA Art Times, issue 11 vol. 3.
2006: Conversations with Tyrone Appollis, in Botaki: Exhibition 4, (catalogue), Mario Pissarra (curator), Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: Conversations with Donovan Ward, in Botaki: Exhibition 3, (catalogue), Mario Pissarra (curator), Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Conversations with Sophie Peters, in Botaki: Exhibition 2, (catalogue), Mario Pissarra (curator), Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: 10 years 100 artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Sophie Perryer (ed.), Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.
2004: Renaissance Printmakers Exhibition, (catalogue), Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: Die Burger, October 1, p7.
1999: The Hourglass Project - A Women’s Vision, (catalogue), R Christian (curator), Fulton Country Arts Council, Atlanta.
1998: Marie Caire Magazine.
1998: Stern Magazine, Germany.
1997: A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, Emma Bedford (ed.), Double Storey Books, Cape Town.
1997: E Rankin & P Hobbs, Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa, David Phillip Publishers, Cape Town.
1997: Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995, Third Text, vol 11 issue 39, pp 95-103.
1994: Sarie Magazine.
1993: Femina Magazine.
1992: Culture and Empowerment: Debates, Workshops, Art and Photography from Zabalaza Festival, A Oliphant (ed.), Staffrider, vol 10 no 3, Cosaw Publishing, Johannesburg.

Awards

Numerous awards for book illustrations.

Other

Sophie Peters has taught art to children since 1987, including at Sakhile Children's Art Project, the Community Arts Project, and the Visual Arts Group in Cape Town.

Thami Kiti

b. 1968, Machibini, Eastern Cape, South Africa; lives in Khayelitsha.

Thami Kiti moved to the informal settlement of Crossroads in the early 1980s, and presently lives in Khayelitsha. Kiti learned to carve at the Community Arts Project. His skilful carvings draw on his rural upbringing and Xhosa identity, and express deep respect for the natural environment and the medium of wood itself.

Biography

From the Against the Grain catalogue:

"Thami Kiti's works draw directly on his Xhosa culture, in particular, [the] frequently revisited theme of sacrifice that is associated with most significant ceremonies that mark rites of passage, such as initiation, birth, marriage and death. His strong interest in three-dimensional form and narrative is best seen in references to the [hybrid] female forms that he calls "goat women"... Kiti's "goat women" capture a transformative, liminal moment [that] is accentuated through the representation of movement...The [inclusion] of hybrid figures in Cries of Crossroads introduces the use of animal as metaphor for the human condition, whereas the dramatic interplay between goat and woman in several works [symbolizes] the interdependence between human and animal beings. In Kiti's animal sculptures this inter-relationship is more ambiguously handled..."

- Mario Pissarra.

Education

2018: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
c. 1986 - 1995:  Part-time courses, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2017: Innibos Laeveld Nasionale Kunstefees craft competition, Mbombela.
2013-14: Against the Grain, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Sanlam art Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Encompass, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Homecoming, Gug’Sthebe, Langa, Cape Town.
1997: Shadows of Robben Island, Robben Island, Cape Town.
1995: Thami Kiti, Wanini Hill Group Show, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town.
1994: The Loft, Cape Town.
1994: Idasa Gallery, Cape Town.
1994: Wood panels, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
1992: Made in Wood: work from the Western Cape, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Sculptors of the Western Cape (organized by Andrew Steyn and Mario Sickle), Stellenbosch; Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
1990: Ricky Dyaloyi, Billy Mandindi, Wanini Hill, Thami Kiti Group Show, Joseph Stone, Athlone, Cape Town.
1990: Vuyisane Mgijima, Timothy Mafenuka and Xolile Mtakatya, Thami Kiti Group Show, Cape of Good Hope Castle, Cape Town (with ).
c. 1986 – 1993: Annual Exhibitions, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.

Collections

University of the Western Cape (Community Arts Project Collection).
Private collections in South Africa, United States and Europe, notably the Ronnie Levitan Estate, Cape Town.

Publications

2013: Mario Pissarra, Against the Grain, Africa South Arts I,nitiative (ASAI) Cape Town

Awards

2017: First prize, Innibos Laeveld Nasionale Kunstefees craft competition, Mbombela, South Africa.
 
 

Other

2008 - 2011: Assistant puppet maker, Handspring Puppet Company.  

1996: Thapong International Artists Workshop, Gaborone, Botswana.

Richard Bollers

b. 1959, Georgetown, Guyana; Lives in Thaba Nchu, Motheo, South Africa.

Richard Bollers’ paintings vividly address everyday issues affecting poor people living in urban areas.

Arts Education

1979 - 1983: Escuela Nacional De Artes Plasticas, Havana, Cuba.
1975 - 1979: Diploma, Fine Art, E. R. Burrowes School of Art, Georgetown, Guyana.
1975 - 1976: El Dorado Academy, Georgetown.
1970 - 1975: Tucville Government School, Georgetown.

Solo Exhibitions (Guyana)

1986: A Symphony of Colours, Georgetown.
1984: The Observer, Georgetown.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

1989: From my Pallet, Gaborone.

Group Exhibitions (Guyana)

1979: Diploma exhibition, E.R. Burrowes School of Art, Georgetown.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2010: Spier Contemporary 2010, City Hall, Cape Town.
2008: A Journey to Art, Glenwood, Durban.
2001: Sasol New Signatures 2000, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
1983: National School of Art Graduation Exhibition, Havana, Cuba.
1981: Young Artists’ Exhibition, Havana.

Collections

Telkom
Presidents’ Collection
African Bank
University of Free State

Awards

2000: Jugdes Award, Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
1998: Kempton Fine Art Competition, Top 12 Award.

Employment and Involvement

2008: Mosaic Mural, Selosesha Public Library, Thaba Nchu, Free State.
2004 - 2010: Advisory Committee, Oliewenhius Art Museum, Bloemfontein.
2004 - 2010: Organiser, Macufe Visual Arts Competition; Curator, Macufe Visual Arts Exhibition.
2003 - 2010: Advisory Committee for Fine Art, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein.
2004 - 2005: Acting Head of Mmabana, Thabone and Zamdela Cultural Centres.
2002 - 2004: Head of Visual Arts and Crafts, Mmabana, Thabone and Zamdela Cultural Centres, Welkom.
1995 - 1998: Lecturer, Mmabana Cultural Centre, Mafikeng.
1994: Art Educator, Welkom High School, Welkom.
1993: Part-time Lecturer, Welkom Technical College, Welkom.
1989 - 1992: Graphic Designer, Gaborone Printing Works, Gaborone.
1987 - 1989 Graphic Designer, L. M. Publications, Botswana.
1983 - 1986 Lecturer, E. R. Burrowes School of Art, Georgetown.

Shepherd Mbanya

b. 1965, Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, South Africa; lives in Khayelitsha.

Shepherd Mbanya was born in Bishop Lavis on the northern outskirts of Cape Town, but was raised in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Mentored by Isaac Makeleni, Mbanya’s evocative sculptures and paintings use narrative forms to communicate his often critical views on contemporary issues.

Education

Sivuyile College of Education.
Mbanya is a largely self-taught artist.

Artist Statement

From the Against the Grain catalogue:

"Mbanya applies a range of visual idioms, often within the same work, ranging from the lifelike to the abstract, the literal to the conceptual... Mbanya is strongly invested in narrative as a means of articulating and communicating his views on contemporary issues. His position is often boldly critical of power and politics, giving voice to dispossessed communities whose visions of a brighter future remain clouded by unfulfilled promises."

- Mario Pissarra

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2013 - 2014: Against the Grain: Sculptors from the Cape, Iziko South African National Gallery and Sanlam Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2013: Invocation, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2012: Siyakubona. The Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2012: Turn Around Time: Annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2011: 20 Years: Thami Mnyele Foundation, Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam.
2011: Continuum: Annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: africa south, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2005: Encompass, Cape Gallery, Cape Town.
1996: Sculptors in Wood, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1992: Unidentified gallery, Stellenbosch.
1992 - 1993: Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Visual Arts Group travelling exhibition, Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Manenberg Peoples Centre and Uluntu Centre, Guguletu; Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
1991: South African Association of Arts, Cape Town.

Collections

Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town.
Thami Mnyele Foundation, Netherlands.
Sanlam Art Collection, Cape Town.

Publications

2013: Mario Pissarra, Against the Grain, Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), Cape Town.
2003: Chris Ledochowski, Cape Flats Details, South African History Online, Cape Town.
1992: Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape, South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town.

Residencies

1996: Residency, Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam.

Randolph Hartzenberg

b. 1948, Cape Town, South Africa; lives in Cape Town.

In painting, installation and performance, Randolph Hartzenberg produces quiet, seemingly un-obtrusive works that gradually reveal a great depth of symbolic content. Hartzenberg’s deliberate use of normal objects acts as the surface of his practice of thoughtful political and conceptual engagement, exploring questions of power, labour and race within South African society.

 

Screen Printing Workshop, 2023. Michaelis Art School, University of Cape Town.
Burr, 2016. AVA/Strauss & Co. print portfolio 2016. Exhibition flyer. The AVA Gallery, Cape Town. Artist's collection.
Kwere Kwere, 2003. Exhibition flyer (back). Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Artist's collection.
Kwere Kwere, 2003. Exhibition flyer (front). Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Artist's collection.
Untitled, 1984. Art of the South African Townships. London: Thames and Hudson, New York: Rizzoli.
Randy photographing at IZIKO
Sketch. Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees installation. Artist's collection.

[Show slideshow]
Art in South Africa, The Future Present

 

Staking Claims catalogue

 

One and another – Art South Africa, Volume 8, Issue 3, Autumn 2010 –  article by Randolph Hartzenberg

 

 

Grahamstown National Arts Festival Performance, 2012

Randolph Hartzenberg, created “Three Days” for the Making Way exhibition curated by Ruth Simbao at the 2012 National Arts Festival. The performance took place at Fort Selwyn in Grahamstown.

Art Education

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1994: Master of Art, Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
1989: Bachelor of Art (BA), Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
1982: Higher Diploma in Education, Drama, University of Cape Town.
1968: Certificate Art Teaching, Hewat Training College.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2008: Prints, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1996: Map of the Neighbourhood, Metropolitan Life Gallery, Cape Town.
1994: Domestic Baggage, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2023: Stoned: Remembering the 1980's, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2023: Kevin Atkinson-Art and Life, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2016: Burr, the AVA/Strauss & Co. print portfolio, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: In Print/ In Focus, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2012 - 2013: Making Way,  Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; Grahamstown Art Festival, Grahamstown.
2009: Dada South, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2007: africa south, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: ReCenter, Look-out Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
2006: Facing the Past: Seeking the Future — Reflections on a Decade of Truth and Reconciliations Commission, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2006: Amajita in Conversation, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Botaki 3, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2004: Botaki, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2002: Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Spier Farms, Stellenbosch.
2001: Telling Tales, 3rd I Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Homeport, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town.
2000: Kwere Kwere: Journeys into Strangeness, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
1999: Staking Claims, The Granary, Cape Town.
1998: !Xoe Site Specific, organised by Ibis Art Centre, Nieu Bethesda.
1998: 30 Minutes, Robben Island Prison Complex, Robben Island.
1997: Hong Kong, etc., 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg.
1997: District Six Sculpture Project, Cape Town.
1997: Cyst: Works in Paint, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town; Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg.
1996: Hardground Printmakers in collaboration with Stellenbosch University Gallery, Stellenbosch University Gallery, Stellencosch.
1996: Faultlines, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
1978 - 1979: Response To The Detentions, Space Theatre Gallery, Cape Town
1968: Artcom, Argus Gallery, Cape Town.

Group exhibitions (International)

2003: Kwere Kwere: Journeys into Strangeness, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1999: Dialogue, Arhus, Denmark.
1995: Transitions, Bath Festival, UK and Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1995: Siyawela: Love, Loss and Liberation in South African Art, Curated by Colin Richards, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, UK.
1995: Venice Biennale (participant in work by Malcolm Payne), Venice, Italy.
1994: Displacements, Curated by Jane Taylor and David Bunn, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

Performances

2013: Three Days, Making Way, Curated by Ruth Simbao, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
2012: Three Days, Making Way, Curated by Ruth Simbao, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2000: I Want To Hear My Brother, The Granary, Cape Town.
1996: The Ninth Haptic String, Faultlines, The Castle, Cape Town.
1991: Eight Haptic Strings, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.
1982: Member of the Community Arts Workshop, (CAP) Mime Group, Culture and Resistance Festival, Gaborone, Botswana
1977: Hand Signals, Space Theatre Gallery, Cape Town.
1976: The Zoo has Nothing to Hide, Space Theatre Gallery.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
The Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
The University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg.
Vodacom, Cape Town.
The Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Norad, Oslo.

Commissions

2003: Breadline/Waterline, Amsterdam.
2000: Breadline/Waterline, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
1995: Commissioned participation in Malcolm Payne’s installation for the Venice Biennale, Italy.

Residencies

1996: Artist in Residence, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Publications

2014: Mario Pissarra, Quiet Provocations: thoughts on two sculptures by Randolph Hartzenberg, https://asai.co.za/artist/randolph-hartzenberg/
2011: Thembinkosi Goniwe, Mario Pissarra and Mandisi Majavu (eds), Visual Century Vol.4, Wits University Press, Johannesburg.
2010: Randolph Hartzenberg, One and Another, Art South Africa 8(3): 12.
2008: Deela Khan, Salt on my breath. https://asai.co.za/artist/randolph-hartzenberg/
2007: Thembinkosi Goniwe, Mario Pissarra and Mandisi Majavu (eds), Visual Century Vol.4, Wits University Press: Johannesburg.
2005: Mario Pissarra (ed), Botaki Exhibition 3: Conversations with Donovan Ward, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Mario Pissarra (ed), Botaki: Conversations with South African artists, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
1999: Emma Bedford, Staking Claims: Confronting Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: Clare Menck and Johann Louw in collaboration with the William Fehr Collection and the Sandton Civic Gallery, Cyst: Works in paint, The Artists' Press, White River.
1997: Emma Bedford, Contemporary South African Art, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: Sue Williamson, Thirty Minutes: Installation by nine artists, Robben Island Museum, Cape Town.
1997: Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa, David Philip, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
1996: Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, Art in South Africa: The future present, David Phillip Publishers, Cape Town.
1995: Clive van den Berg, Panoramas of Passage: Changing landscapes of South Africa, University of Witwatersrand Art Galleries, Johannesburg and Meridian International Centre, Washington DC.
1992: Joe Dolby and Deon Viljoen,  Friends’ Choice 1975-1991 / Vriende Se Keuse 1975-1991, Friends of the South African National Gallery sponsored by Creda Press, Cape Town.
1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, Thames and Hudson, London.

Links

<div>A study of protest art under an apartheid regime Crossing Project article by Poppy Morris</div>

Deela Khan, Salt on My Breath, (ASAI, 2008).
Mario Pissarra, Quiet Provocations: Thoughts on two works by Randolph Hartzenberg, (ASAI, 2014).

Peter Clarke

Peter E Clarke

b. 1929 Simon’s Town, d. 2014, Ocean View, South Africa.
Peter Clarke was, indeed is, a giant. Evidence of his achievements are narrated in numerous tributes, obituaries and testimonies. Clarke’s graphic works and paintings affirm the dignity of everyday Black life. Exploring flattened, angular forms, and working with highly deliberate palettes, Clarke’s images reflect a spirit of experimentation, digging beyond the typical conventions of landscape and portrait work that defined his times.

 

Karibuna Festival – 1989

Karibuna Festival

 

Natale Labia Exhibition – 1992

Natale Labia-Museum Exhibition (Afrikaans)

 

Snailpress Letter and Book jacket – 1997

Snailpress

 

Carapace 64 Poetry Selection – 2007

Carapace 64 - Poetry Selection

 

Impressions Catalogue – 2009

exhibition 2009_a hot and quiet evening_university of the west indies

 

Ashbey’s Catalogue – 2010

Ashbey's Catalogue - 10 June 2010

 

Cavershams Catalogue – June 2010

Caversham Brochure

 

Portrait of The Artist – Wanted Magazine article by Sean ‘O Toole

Sean O Toole, Portrait of the artist as a spry old man, Wanted, March 2011, p 20 - 22

 

Listening to Distant Thunder,The Art of Peter Clarke Catalogue – May 2011

 

Listening to Distant Thunder,The Art of Peter Clarke Pamphlet – May 2011

Listening to Distant Thunder - Standard Bank Exhibition Pamphlet

 

Art times – May 2011

SA Art Times - May 2011- Peter Clarke Article

 

Report of The Chairperson of The Friends of The South African National Gallery – December 2011

Report - Friends of Museum

 

Standard Bank Learning Resource Brochure

Standard Bank Learning Resource

 

Dak’Art – 2012

Dak'Art 2012

 

Stephen Welz – February 2013

Stephen Welz & Co. Auction Brochure

 

Mine is the Silent Face (French and English magazine clipping) – 2013

Mine is the Silent Face

 

Weekend Argus, newspaper clipping – November 2013

Weekend Argus - Auction

 

Lize Van Robbroekc – Listening to Distant Thunder – The Art of Peter Clarke (review)

Review on Listening to Distant Thunder by Lize Van Robbroeck

 

Peter Clarke – Just Paper and Glue

Peter Clarke Just Paper and Glue

 

Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke, Elizabeth Rankin & Philippa Hobbs

Listening to Distant Thunder, Peter Clarke

Elizabeth Rankin & Philippa Hobbs – Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke

Read book

Peter Clarke: Fanfare, Peter Clarke & Michael Stevenson

Michael Stevenson & Peter Clarke – Peter Clarke: Fanfare

Michael Stevenson & Peter Clarke – Peter Clarke: Fanfare

Read book

More Than Brothers: Peter Clarke and James Mathews at 70, Hein Willemse (ed)

Hein Willemse (ed) – More Than Brothers: Peter Clarke and James Mathews at 70

Hein Willemse (ed) – More Than Brothers: Peter Clarke and James Mathews at 70

Read book

Art Education

1962 - 1963: Royal Academy for Graphic Art, Amsterdam.
1961: Michaelis School of Fine Art (mentored by Katherine Harries), University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2023: For Some the Pathway to Education Lies Between Thorns. Springs Art Gallery, Gauteng
2013: Peter Clarke - Just Paper And Glue. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.
2011: Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke. Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johanneburg.
2009: Woorde en Beelde. Breytenbach Sentrum, Wellington.
2009: A Hot and Quiet Evening. Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town.
2008: Second Childhood. Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2006: Menu. Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town.
2004 - 2005: Fanfare. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
1998 - 1999: Vital Expressions. Association of Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town; Technikon Natal Art Gallery, Durban.
1999: A Personal View. Lipschitz Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: Drawings of Tesselaardsal. Caledon Museum, Caledon.
1995: Small World. Full Stop Coffee Shop, Cape Town.
1992: The hand is the tool of the soul. Natale Labia Museum, Cape Town.
1981: Illusions and Others' Realities. Atlantic Gallery, Cape Town.
1977 - 1978: Exhibition Grassy Park Public Library, Cape Town.
1977: Our World is a Ghetto. Association of of Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
1970: Exhibition. Edrich Gallery, Stellenbosch.
1957: Exhibition. Golden City Post, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2013: Peter Clarke: Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats, Retrospective. Institute of International Visual Artists (INIVA), London.
2012: Dak'Art 2012 (Honourary Guest Artist), Dakar.
2009: A Hot Quiet Evening. University of West Indies, Barbados
2000: Exhibition. Bertold Brecht House, Berlin; Media Centre, Exeter, Devon.
1984: Exhibition. Jerusalem Artist's House, Palestine.
1978 - 1979: Exhibition. Sandvika Kino Vestibyle, Sandvika.
1973-1974: Exhibition. Fisk University, Nashville.
1965: Exhibition. Mbari Cultural Centre, Ibadan.
1965: Exhibition. Chemi-Chemi Cultural Centre, Nairobi.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2024: Being/Present. Glen Carlou Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2023: Loud and Clear. SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2022: Customs. A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town.
2021: The Long Table. SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2021: Works on Paper. Stevenson, Cape Town.
2020: ONLINE: Sense of Place. Goodman gallery, Johannesburg.
2019: Holding Still: Psychology and Portraiture. SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018: Notes on Spectrality, Sorcery and the Spirit. Norval Museum, Cape Town.
2018: Peter Clarke and Lionel Davis: Die Bou van Die Oog - The Composition of the Eye. SMAC Gallery, Stellenbsoch.
2017: X: Part I. SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2013: The Loom of the Land. Stevenson, Johannesburg.
2011: Collection 13. SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Hats off: 25 Years, Linocuts from Caversham. Tokara, Stellenbosch.
2010: Artists of the South. Old Library Hall, Simonstown, Cape Town.
2010: Joburg Art Fair. Johannesburg.
2010: Divisions: Aspect of South Africa Art 1948 - 2010. SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2010: 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective. Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2010: Homage, Michaelis Gallery. Cape Town.
2009: Strengths and Convictions. Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2009: The Art of the Relief Print. Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2008: Collection 10. SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2008: Revisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art. SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2008: JOHN KRAMER: Painter of the South African small town. Rose Korber Art, Cape Town. 
2007: Africa South. AVA, Cape Town.
2006: Botaki 4. Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: Botaki 3. OMAM, Cape Town.
2003: Exhibited in AVA Surface=/=Print, as part of Impact Conference, Cape Town
2002: Exhibition. Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg.
2001: MICROMACRO. South African National Library, Cape Town.
1993: I wish you well on your way (Tribute to John Muafangejo). Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Gallery International (with Willie Bester, Isaac Makeleni and Ishmael Thyssen), Cape Town.
1983: Minor Events and Situations, Bellville Art Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2024: African Modernism in America. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinatti.
2023: No Feeling is Final: The Skopje Solidarity Collection. Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna
2022: Abstraction 22. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond.
2021: Emerging Masters 2021. Laguna Art Museum, California.
2019: Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
2019: Abstraction 19. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond. 
2018: Chaos and Order, 120 years of collecting at RMIT. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
2015: Abstraction 14. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond.
2014: Bank Gallery at The Lightbox: Borderlands. The Lightbox, Surrey.
2014: Vista II. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond.
2013: Portrait de l’Afrique du Sud: An exhibition of artworks by George Hallett, Peter Clarke and Gerard Sekoto. Iziko National Gallery, Paris.
2011: Slowness. Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2009: Strengths and Convictions. Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo.
2007: Apartheid - The South African Mirror. Centro Cultural Bacanja of Valencia, Barcelona.
1995: 18th International Independent Exhibition of Prints. Kanagawa.
1994: 3rd World Triennale of Small Format Prints. Chamalières-Auvergne.
1992: Zeitzeichen - Art from Contemporary Africa. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt; St Virgil Bildungshaus, Satzburg.
1990: Freedom Now: Nambian Independence Exhibition. Windhoek.
1989: Exhibition. Rahmen Gallerie (with Tyrone Appollis and Ishmael Thyssen), Langei.
1986: Botschaften aus Sudafrika. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt.
1985: 10th International Triennale fur originale grafik, Grenchen.
1984: Norwergian International Print Bienniale, Frederikstad.
1983 - 1984: 9th International Independent Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa.
1982: Culture and Resistance Conference, Gaborone.
1979 - 1982: Norway Series of Graphic Art. Aterlier Nord, Oslo.
1973: Benefit Exhibition of Graphics. Pratt Graphics Centre, New York.
1972: Tercera Bienniale Internacionale del Grabado de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires.
1971: South African Graphics. Netherlands; Belgium; then West Germany.
1969: 2nd Exhibition of International Graphics. Palazzo Strozzo, Florence.
1968: 1st Exhibition of International Graphics. Palazzo Strozzo, Florence.
1965: 6th International Graphic Art Biennale, Ljubljana.
1964: XXXII Bienale de Venezia, Venice.
1963: 5th International Graphic Art Biennale, Ljubljana; Albertine Museum, Vienna.
1960 - 1961: South African Graphic Art. Ljubljana; Gallery Schononger, Munich; Sao Paulo.

Workshops & Residencies

2005: Caversham Press, KZN, South Africa.
1983: United States -South Africa Leadership Exchange Programme, Rustenberg, South Africa.
1976: Kuumbe Workshop, Southside, Chicago. 1975: University of Iowa, USA.

Collections

Public collections in South Africa, Norway, Australia, USA, Germany, Yugoslavia, Botswana, Netherlands.

Publications

(Books, magazines, newspapers and catalogues)

2023: Kimberley Schoeman, 'Going, going, gone... for millions'. Mail & Guardian: Johannesburg
2022: Iziko Sang, 'A Walkabout with Andrew Lamprecht'. ArtThrob: South Africa
2022: Roberto Vidali, 'A Century of Black Figuration in Painting'. Juliet: Italy
2018: 'SPRING 18 Auction'. ArtAfrica: South Africa
2014: Philippa Hobbs, Elizabeth Rankin, Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke, Struik Nature/ Penguin Random House: South Africa.
2011: Sean O'Toole, Portrait of the artist as a spry old man, Business Day Magazine Supplement, March, pp. 20-22.
2009: Darren Newbury, Defiant Images: Photography and Anti-Apartheid South Africa, UNISA Press, Pretoria.
2009: Alex Dodd, Frederico Freschi, Imaging and Imagining : South African art c. 1896-2008, Grahams Fine Art Gallery: Johannesburg.
2008: Catalogue no 6. Annual Report, William Humphreys Art Gallery, Swiftprint: Kimberley.
2008: Gavin Jantjes, Strengths and Convictions, Press Publishing, Cape Town.
2008: Prestige Magazine, Neo Publishing, Johannesburg.
2008: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg.
2008: Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg: Artlogic.
2007: Kim Gurney, Dignity and Quiet Fanfare, Art South Africa, vol. 05 issue 03 Autumn.
2006: Donvé Lee, Peter Clarke: Following Dreams and Finding Fame, Awareness Publishing Group, Gallo Manor, Johannesburg.
2006: Hayden Proud, ReVisions+: Expanding the narrative of South African Art, Unisa Press, Pretoria.
2006: George Hallett, Portraits of African Writers, Wits University Press, Johannesburg.
2005: Kim Gurney, Clarke, Pinker and Nel, Art South Africa vol. 03 issue 03 Autumn, p71.
2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki 3: Conversations with Donovan Ward, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2004: Sophie Perryer (ed.) 10 years 100 artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.
2004: M Stevenson Fanfare: Peter Clarke in conversation with Michael Stevenson, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg.
2002: Oprah Magazine, April - May issue.
2000: Hein Willemse (ed.) More than brothers: Peter Clarke and James Matthews at seventy, Kwela Books, Cape Town.
1997: Elza Miles, Land and lives: a story of early black artists, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
1992: Patricia Hardy, Peter E Clarke: the hand is the tool of the soul, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, Thames and Hudson, London.
1988: Grania Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Everard Read, Johannesburg.

Awards

2010: Arts and Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award.
2005: Order of Ikhamanga, silver class, for excellence in Art and Literature.
1984: Honorary Doctor of Literature, World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taipei.
1984: Honorary Life Member, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles.
1982: Book illustration award for A message in the wind by Chris Van Wyk.
1982: Diploma of Merit, Art, Universita delle Arti, Salso Maggiore Terme Pr., Italy.
1975: Honorary Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
1965: C.P. Hoogenhout Book-illustration Award for Snoet-alleen by Frida Linder.
1965: Avvademico Onorario, Accademia Florentina delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.
1955: Drum International Short-story Award.

Other Involvement

Numerous poems and short stories published in South Africa, USA, Sweden and Norway.
Taught art in Ocean View.
Founder member of Vakalisa.

Links

Just Paper and Glue: review by Olga Speakes

Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats: review by Amy Halliday

"Interview with Peter Clarke"

"A portrait of South Africa"

'Correspondence with Langston Hughes'

Nic Maritz Interview (pdf 3.98MB)

Candice Allison, Peter Clarke: There was always tomorrow, (ASAI, 2021)
Mario Pissarra, Some thoughts on Peter Clarke, (ASAI, 2014)

Manfred Zylla

b. Augsburg, Germany, 1939. Lives between Munich & Cape Town

Manfred Zylla uses drawing, painting and printmaking to produce biting commentaries on global politics, economy and ecology. Working between the political situations of Germany and South Africa, Zylla has historically challenged capitalist-driven processes that forcefully re-render peoples’ relation to their own land, history and culture. 

Work created for various Handicap International campaigns

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Art Education

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2018: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1959 - 1960: Mostly self taught, student with Prof. Butz at the Art Academy in Augsburg, Germany
1957 - 1960: Apprenticeship as a lithographer in Augsburg, Germany.

Exhibitions (solo)

2024: Manfred Zylla, Odyssey, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2017: Manfred Zylla: Fur Jeden Etwas, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2014: Prints & Drawings 1960 - 1990, Lanz 7 Gallery, Munich, Germany.
2014: I want to Swim a Thousand Miles, Erdmann Contemporary, South Africa.
2013: 120 Days of Sodom, Munich, Germany.
2012: In Retrospect, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2010: Future Memories, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Rome, Italy.
2010: Again and Again, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town. Future Memories, Centre Luigi Di Sarro, Rome.
2008: New Paintings, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2008: Faces of Saron, Suidoosterfees, Artscape.
2008: Portraits, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
2007: Faces of Vredendal, Artscape, Cape Town.
2005: Work on Paper, Erdmann contemporary, Cape Town.
2004: Gallery Momo, Johannesburg.
2003: Interim, Munich. Obz Cafe, CapeTown.
1993: Dritte Welt Cafe, Munich; Ecke Gallery Kneipe, Augsburg.
1992: Glokenbachwerkstatt, Munich.
1991: Art des Foyer, Munich.
1990: Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1986: Amnesty International, Munich.
1980: South African Association of Art, Cape Town.
1978: Kleine Schlossgalerie, Munich.
1975: Space, Cape Town.
1966: Ecke Stuben, Augsburg, Germany.
1965: Obere Stube, Ulm, Germany.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2020:  Cafe Ganesh, Observatory, Cape Town.
2018: Once when we were free, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2016: Auf Wiedersehen is Not Good Bye, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2016:  Beyond Binaries, Essence Festival, Durban.
2015:  Co-Existence part II – Manfred Zylla, Garth Erasmus and Antonin Mares, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town (Click here for opening remarks).
2015:  Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2015:  Breaking Surface, Galerie NOKO, Port Elizabeth.
2015:  The Industrial Karoo - Fear and Loss, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
2014:  The Industrial Karoo - Fear and Loss, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein.
2014:  The Trouble With Memory, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2013:  Crossing the Divide, ErdmannContemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2013:  Re-Drawn Conclusion, ErdmannContemporary, Cape Town
2008:  Painful Earth, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg.
2007:  Artseasons, Franchhoek. 
2007: Riempie Vasmaak (with Garth Erasmus & Roderick Sauls), Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
1985:  Art for Peace, Baxter Theatre Gallery (organised by End Conscription Campaign).
1984  (With Paul Grendon), South African Association of Art, Cape Town.
1980:  Biennale, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2015:  Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China.
2014:  The Secret Garden, Museo di Villa Vecchia, Rome, Italy.
2014:  Twenty: Contemporary South African Art, The Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA.
2013:  Zylla & Erasmus, EineWeltHaus, Munich, Germany.
2009: (with Garth Erasmus) Fernwarme Kapstadt, BBK Ulm, Germany. Havanna Biennale, Cuba.
1997 - 2000: Various exhibitions with Handicap International in Munich, Berlin and Augsburg. Designed the Handicap Bus Exhibitions with Sans Papiers.
1993: Art Against Racism, Dritte Welt Cafe, Munich.
1989: South African Anti-Apartheid Festival, Amsterdam.
1987: South African Conference on Literature, Bad Boll, Germany.
1986: 120 Hours Action, Kunstakademie, Munich.
1983: Krieg und Frieden, Bremen, Germany.
1982: Culture and Resistance, Gaberone, Botswana.
1965: Anti-Vietnam War, travelling exhibition through Germany (organised by Workers Union).
1964: Socialistic Realism (from West and East Germany), Augsburg, Germany.
1961: Junge Westen, Recklinghausen, Germany.
1960 - 1962: Spring and Autumn Exhibition, Artists’ Union, Augsburg, Germany.

Actions

2010: As Is (with Garth Erasmus, Roderick Sauls and Niklas Zimmer), Breytenbachsentrum, Wellington.
2002: (With Charles Bhebe) Mural at Eine Welt Haus, Muenchen. Revised in 2009 (with Garth Erasmus).Numerous performances as a musician.
2002: Voices in Transit, drawings of refugees at Cape Town train station for Cape Town Festival.
1992: Stand Up For Tolerance, billboard action paintings, Muenchen.
1991: Ozone, billboard action paintings, Muenchen.
1990: Puzzle Action (organised by South African Scholarship Fund), Tuebingen, Germany.
1982: Interaction, CAP, Cape Town.Other experience
1961 - 1970: Worked as a lithographer in various parts of Germany, landscape painter and print maker, mainly in the medium of wood.
1974 - 1985: Worked as a lithographer and educator at Hirt and Carter in Cape Town.
1981 - 1986: Teacher and organizer at the Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1981 - 1984 Taught photographic image in print making at Michaelis School of Fine Art.

Publications (Books, newspapers, journals)

2009: "Manfred Zylla, Interaction," Critical Interventions: Journal of African art history and visual culture, numbers 3/4 Spring: pp. 206-222.
1989: Sue Williamson, Resistance Art in South Africa (Cape Town: David Philip).
1988: G. Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors (Johannesburg: Everard Read). Staffrider, Contrast, Cape Times, Weekly Mail, ADA, Varsity, Vula, Tendenzen, Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustauch Dritte Welt (IKA), Anti-Imperialistic Bulletin (Germany), The Guardian (New York), Tri-Quarterly (USA). Collections Iziko SANG, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Bredasdorp Municipal Collection, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Archiv, Augsburg, Germany; University of Botswana, Botswana.

Private Collections

England, Switzerland, Germany, America, South Africa.

Links

Profile on Erdmann Contemporary website
Profile on SAHO

Maurice Mbikayi

b. 1974, Kinshasa, DR Congo; lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Maurice Mbikayi is a multimedia artist, working in sculpture, installation, performance and photography. Mbikayi skillfully integrates digital debris with political themes, foregrounding the problems of Africa’s continued exploitation for the progress of the global tech industry. By repurposing tech waste into sculpture, Mbikayi highlights the underbelly of ‘advancement’ – exploitation of Black mining labour, environmental damage and systemic health risks.

A Creative Exchange

Getting under our skinSuzy Bell, Cape Times January 21, 2011

Maurice Mbikayi Art South Africa 2011

Maurice Mbikayi: The Creative Exchange

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet.
 
 

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006 - Maurice

 

Arts Education

2015: Master of Fine Art with distinction, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2009: Higher Certificate in Photography, Vega Brand Communication School, Cape Town.
2000: Graphic Design and Visual Communication, Institut des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa.
1994: Diploma in Fine Art, Institut des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2019: Coucou Crumble, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town.
2016: Mupia-Mupia, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg.
2011: Notre Peau, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town; Centre for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town; Villa Arcadia, Johannesburg.
2010: Echoes, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town.
2007: Maurice Mbikayi, The Framery Gallery, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2018: Mupia-Mupia, Fondation Friedrich Naumann, Dakar.
2018: Masks Of Heterotopia, Officine dell’Immagine, Milan.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2019: Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday…, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
2016: Paradoxal Stranger, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town.
2016: Troubled Land, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: On Entropy and Becoming, AVA Gallery, Cape Town; Constitution Hill, Johannesburg.
2011: Thinking Africa and the Diaspora Differently, Centre for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: reasons to live in a small town, Goethe on Main Gallery, Johannesburg.
2010: Amani Festival, LookOut Hill, Cape Town.
2009: Artreach in progress, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2008: Soul of Africa, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg.
2007: Human Rights Day, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town.
2007: Reconciliation Day, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town.
2007: Group Exhibition, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
2007: X-Cape Circuit, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
2006: A Response to Picasso and Africa, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town.
2006: A journey together, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town.
2006: Portrait, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2019: Face with Tears of Joy, Blitz, Malta.
2019: Digital Imaginaries: Africas in Production, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Kër Thiossane, Dakar; ZKM, Karlsruhe.
2018: Congo Stars, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz.
2018: ON/OFF, Casa Victor Hugo, Havana; 17 Biennale De Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi.
2018: YOUNG CONGO, Kin ArtStudio, Kinshasa.
2018: Urban Axis / Another Antipodes, PS Art Space, Freemantle.
2018: WE CALL IT “AFRICA”, Artists From Sub-Saharan Africa, Officine dell’Immagine, Milan.
2014: Art of the Lived Experiment, The Bluecoat School Lane, Liverpool; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2012: Window Exhibition/ Traces at Dock, Basel.
2011: Celeste Prize Finalists Exhibition & Awards, The Invisible Dog, New York City.
2010: AFRIKA SUR L’ÉVENEMENT POÉTIQUE, Centre Culturel des Mazades, Toulouse.
2008: The art of determination, Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA), National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare.

Performances

2010: Voices, Spier Contemporary 2010 Biennale, City Hall, Cape Town.
2010: Minky Mwendo (Distant relationships), Mullineux Wine Cellar, Cape Town.
2010: Healing (with Lodi Paul Inga), Khayelitsha Festival of Cultural Diversity, Cape Town.
2008: Talking Heads (with Magdelena Kunz and Daniel Glaser), Pro Helvetia, Cape Town.

Collections

The Development Bank of South Africa, Midrand.
Hollard Corporate, Johannesburg.
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Scheryn Art Collection, Cape Town.
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio.
Yellowwoods Art, Cape Town.

Publications

2011: Business Art South Africa, July 27, p. 6. SA Art Times, February, p. 28. What’s on in Cape Town, Mail and Guardian, January 28 to February 3, p. 3. Cape Times, January 21
2010: Ruth Simbao, Cosmolocalism: The audacity of place, CCA Lagos Newsletter, no. 10, September-December. Jay Pather (ed.), Spier Contemporary 2010, Africa Center, Cape Town
2010 Sean O’Toole, Parting shot, Sunday Times, March 28. Art South Africa, Winter, vol. 8, issue 4
2007 Andrew Mulenga, Artistically brushing out xenophobia in SA, Weekend Post, November 30

Awards

2010-2011: The Hollard Creative Exchange Programme, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
2007: Best group proposal, Table Mountain Cable Way Station Award, Cape Town.

Other

2010: Up and Down with Steve Bandoma (research project from '2010 Reasons to live in small town'), VANSA, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
2010: Performance Arts Workshop (with Spier Contemporary), Hiddingh Hall, Cape Town.
2010: Portrait (film documentary for Red Cross Exchange programme), Cape Town.
2010: Stroke of genius (workshop facilitator), Department of Sport and Cultural Affairs & Department of Trade and Industry, Cape Town.
2009: Facilitator at Art therapy workshop for adolecents and elderly, CWD Trauma and Healing Project, Cape Town.
2009: Facilitator at Art therapy workshop for women with HIV/AIDS, CWD Trauma and Healing Project, Cape Town.
2009: Facilitator at Art therapy workshop for children, Lawrence House Shelter, Cape Town.
2007: Educational youth programmes with Kathy Coates (a series of mixed media installations), Annexe at Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: The art of dissent (a film documentary with Lionel Davis, Jonathan Zapiro, Ruth Carneson), Cape Town.
2006-2007: Multimediations, Cape Africa Platform (with City Varsity), Cape Town.
2006: Facilitator at Art therapy workshop for refugee women and children, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town.

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Mandla Mabila

b. 1969, Barberton, Mpumalanga; d. 2012.

Mandla Mabila’s allegorical self-portraits drew from childhood experiences and memories, and raised issues around disability.

Mandla Mabilia. Bringing up Baby: Artists survey the reproductive body. Terry Kurgan. 1998

 

Arts Education

1993 - 1997: Bachelor of Art (BA), Fine Art, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2008: Mentors of excellence, Disability Lifestyle Expo, Nasrec, Johannesburg.
2001: From where I’m sitting, Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2000: Brushstrokes, Bill Ainslie Gallery, Johannesburg.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2007: Soul of Africa, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg.
2006: Turn the table, ArtSpace, Johannesburg.
2006: Traditional values – Innovative ideas, Rand Merchant Bank, Johannesburg.
2006: Artists in conversation, Wits Art Galleries, Johannesburg.
2005: Artists in conversation, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
2002: Beyond barriers, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2002: Perceptions, ArtSpace, Johannesburg.
2001: Friends of the Standard Bank Gallery, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
2000: Weft & Warp, Johannesburg Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 2000: Artichoke, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg.
2000: Mnemosyne, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2000: Disability Renaissance, (with Tommy Motswai and Elvis Ntombela), BAT Centre, Durban.
2000: Visions of the future – World’s largest canvas interactive exhibition participation, Johannesburg Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 2000: Transgressing normalcy, Bela Bela Township, Warmbaths.
1998: Bringing up baby: artists survey the reproductive body, Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
1998: Family ties, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg.
1997: Fifty stories, Carlton Centre, Johannesburg.
1997: Martinessen Prize, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1996: Martinessen Prize, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1991: Student show, State theatre, Pretoria.

Group Exhibitions (International)

1999: Art and Soul Festival, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

Publications (illustrations)

2009: Kobus Moolman (ed.), Tilling the Hard Soil, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Durban.

Publications (reviews & catalogues)

2008: Sabine Marschall, Transforming symbolic identity: Wall art and the South African identity, 'African Arts', Summer vol: 21.
2001: Shelley Barry, Politicising disability through arts and culture: an interview with Mandla Mabila, Disabilty World vol 9.
2001: Michael Coulson, Financial Mail, September 7.
2001: Kathryn Smith, Art Bio:Mandla Mabila, Artthrob, September
1998: Terry Kurgan, Bringing up baby: artists survey the reproductive body, Cape Town.

Awards

2008: Mentors of Excellence Award, Nasrec, Johannesburg.
2008: South African Disabled Musicians Association Award, Diepkloof Hall, Soweto.
2005: Nomination, Brett Kebble Awards, Cape Town.
2000: National winner, UBS Art Award, Camouflage Art, Johannesburg.
1998 - 1999: Postgraduate Merit Award, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1997: Top Achievers Award for disabled students, Coca Cola Wits Foundation, Johannesburg.

Collections

Gauteng Legislature.
Telkom South Africa.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

Other

2008 - 2011: Standard generating bodies and national qualification framework specialist, MAPPP-SETA, Johannesburg.
2007: Acting skills planning and Projects manager, MAPPP-SETA, Johannesburg.
2005: Implementation co-ordiantor, MAPPP-SETA, Johannesburg.
2004: Regional Coordinator, MAPPP-SETA, Johannesburg.
2002 - 2003: Information and disability coordinator, Create South Africa, Johannesburg.
2002: Painting tutor, Wits School of Arts, Fine Art Department, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2001: Assistant graphic design, Computer and Network Services, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1998: Drawing research assistant, Rock Art Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1997: Research assistant, Disabled Student Programme; People awareness of disability issues, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1997: Assistant designer, International Association of Art Critics, Johannesburg.
1996: Student assistant, Central Admissions Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Links

Politicising Disability through arts & culture:Interview with Mandla Mabila Shelley Barry. Disabilty World, Issue no. 9, July-August 2001

Art show dedicated to the disabled August 2000 News 24.com

 

Mandla Vanyaza

Mandla Vanyaza’s paintings capture quiet moments, with an interest in both domestic and public spaces.

Arts Education

2003 Art and Design N6, Sivuyile College (College of Cape Town), Cape Town
1986-1989 Part-time studies at the Community Arts Project
1980 Matric at Bethel College, Butterworth

Exhibitions (solo)

2009 Traverse/Traversty, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
2006 In the Kitchen, The Framery Art Gallery, Sea Point, Cape Town
2005 Sekoto-My Memory, AVA, Cape Town
1998 Lipschitz Gallery, Cape Town
1997 AVA, Cape Town
1994 Recent Pastels, South African Association of Art, Cape Town
1993 SAAA, Cape Town
1991 SAAA

Exhibitions (group)

2011 A Natural Selection: 1991-2011, AVA
2010 Embassy of Spain, Bishopscourt, Cape Town
2009 Art from Southern Africa
2007 africa south, AVA. The Framery Gallery, Cape Town
2006 Art in Business, Artscape, Cape Town
2005 Finding You, a collaborative exhibition in clay, AVA. Botaki Exhibition 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town
2004 10 Years of Democracy, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, Anglican Aids and Healthcare Trust, Kenilworth, Cape Town.2002: Art Kites Project, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1999 Paintings for the Millenium, Bay Hotel, Camps Bay, Cape Town
1997 Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
1996 Peace-ing South African Art Together, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town. Art for Peace, Steyr, Austria
1995 South African Artists, World Economic Forum, Congress Centre, Geneva, Switzerland. Mandla Vanyaza, Zwelethu Mthehwa and Louis Jansen Van Vuuren, AVA
1994 Crosscurrents: A Window to South African Art, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida
1992 Somervakansie-Uitstalling, Kunshuis, Clanwilliam. Art from Africa, Singapore. Visual Arts Group Travelling Exhibition, SAAA.1991: International Painting and Graphic Exhibition, Nice, Greece. Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch.
1992 Summer exhibition, Daljosafat Arts Centre, Paarl

Collections

Public collection: Iziko South African National Gallery; UCT; SA Embassy, Washington DC; Stellenbosch University Museum
Corporate collection: Metropolitan Life, Sasol, Vodacom, Board of Executors, Hollard Insurance, and Spier

Publications

2006 Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversations with Tyrone Appollis, OMAM, Cape Town
2005 Featured in An African in Paris, a documentary on Gerard Sekoto shown on SABC
1992 D Brutus (ed.), Book of Hope, David Philip Publishers, Claremont

Commissions

2004 Spier
1997 Tafelberg

Other

2000-2002 Taught art at Sivuyile College (College of Cape Town), Guguletu
1992 One of the judges at Volkskas Atelier Competition

Links

Profile on Cape Gallery website

No Easy Labels: Mandla Vanyaza at the Lipschitz Gallery

© Mario Pissarra, 1/09/1998

Mandla Vanyaza’s  current exhibition at the Lipschitz Gallery in Bo-Kaap defies easy labels. The works are conventional in that you’re looking at rectangular paintings and drawings on the wall and ceramic and bronze figurines on plinths. The subject matter suggests a simple reading as “township art”. The use of snap-shots and built up frames implies the influence of Willie Bester.

Yet the work is also cautiously innovative in several respects. The dominant media is enamel paint, not renowned for it’s versatile qualities.  Most of the paintings create a dialogue between observed reality (eg. hostels, meat markets, streets, interiors, etc.) where the proportions in the images correspond with their subject, and a more subjective reality seen in the gestural application of paint, and in the vibrant use of colour which frequently, but not always departs from the colours of an observed scene. White and black are used as colours adding to the dramatic quality already conjured up by the bold palette, although on occasion the use of black outline appears overdone.

The sculptures reveal a preoccupation with capturing movement, yet  the movement in the paintings is generally not evident in the subject, but rather in the painterly application. There is a sense of space and even detachment in the compositions. Many of the snap shots or painted figures appear more as formal compositional devices than as portraits of particular people and this contributes towards a sense of distance. Yet this distance is countered by vibrant colours which make the generously spaced gallery a warm place to be. .

Due to the inherently limiting possibilities of enamel paint, it is perhaps not surprising that the most impressive works are the interior scenes where Vanyaza combines this industrial media with acrylic paint.  Ironically it is these interiors where figures are largely absent, where there is an intimacy and familiarity with the objects represented that suggests a human presence.  In one of the Interiors  he has inserted a photograph of a young woman who appears to be on the cusp of a smile.  It is physically situated to the side of the painting, and located compositionally as a portrait on the wall. She looks out towards the viewer, as if to mimic the gaze which Vanyaza himself often assumes in relation to his subjects.

This is Vanyaza’s fifth solo exhibition, and the first not held under the auspices of  the South African Association of Arts. . His statement that “my work is an extension of my life, a reflection of my everyday experiences” does not only refer to his subject matter, but also has resonance in that this exhibition demonstrates a developing confidence for a 35 year old artist who has never had the privilege of  full-time training, and who has quietly persevered in his quest to be an artist. If he can sustain this growth we can all look forward to many more intriguingly satisfying works.

This review appeared in The Cape Times , 1998

Ludumo Maqabuka

b. 1982, Umtata, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Lives in Johannesburg.

Ludumo Maqabuka’s work considers the influences of mass media on township life, exposing societal norms and constructed identities.

Arts Education

2007 National Diploma in Fine Art, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria

Solo Exhibitions

2009 27 Design Cafe, Pretoria
2008 Socially Disorientated, GordArt Gallery, Johannesburg

Group Exhibitions

2009 Obert Contemporary, Johannesburg
2008 Emerging Layers, Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg
2007 Contemporary Visions of Southern Africa, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
2006 Student Exhibition, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria. Street Art, 26Art Gallery, Pretoria

Competitions

2007 Sasol New Signatures
2006 Sasol New Signatures
2004 Absa L’Atelier

Other

Works as a graphic designer and manages an Internet Cafe in Pimville, Soweto.
2009 Organised Sunday Lunch sessions, Pretoria
2008 Mural painting, School of Creative Art, Pretoria
2004-2006 Member of Uhuru wa Maisha Arts and Culture movement (Hosted poetry sessions, discussions and art workshops; library workshops, Eskia Mphahlele Community Library, Pretoria)

Lizette Chirrime

b. 1973, Nampula, Mozambique. Lives in Mozambique.

Lizette Chirrime produces mostly mixed media works, usually centred on textiles, and sometimes incorporating performative aspects.  Her works frequently incorporate autobiographical aspects, reflecting her life’s journey and dreams. Her images display a strong inclination towards abstraction, with affirming, organic forms that reference human, spirit and plant life. 

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2006 - Lizette

 

Migration Week, 2006 Published by the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town pp 99 – 112

Migration Week 2006. Published by The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town pp 99 – 112

 

Face(IN) Cape Town, 2006-2007, Exhibition pamphlet

FACE(IN) CAPE TOWN , 2006-2007 , Exhibition Pamphlet

 

 Love Cape Town magazine, volume 1, 2007, pp 56, 57

Love Cape Town magazine - Volume1 (2007) pp 56, 57

 

Rootz magazine,2007, vol 24

Rootz magazine, Vol 24, 2007

 

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together”, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet.

“Voyage Ensemble, A Journey Together” , Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town 2007. Exhibition booklet.Lizette

 

Cape unplugged, Issue 3, 2008 pp 35-37

Cape Unplugged, Issue 3 2008 pp 35-37

 

Sombres, Movimentos e Sonhos (Shadows, Movements and Dreams), 2013, American Cultural Centre,Maputo – Catalogue

Shadows, Movements and Dreams, American Cultural Centre , Maputo - Catalogue

 

Roots, 2013, Institute of Visual Arts and Language, Exhibition pamphlet (catalogue)

ROOTS , 2013 , Institute of Visual arts and Language, Exhibition Pamphlet (catalogue)

 

Viva magazine, August 2013

Viva magazine, August 2013

 

French/Mozambican Cultural Centre , June August 2013, Events program pg 18

French+Mozambiquan Cultural Centre , June-August 2013 Events Program pg 18

 

Art education

Self-taught.

Workshops & residencies

2024: Art Africa, COMMUNITY Residency Programme, Cape Town.
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2006: Truworths Artists Residency Programme, The Castle, Cape Town.
2005: Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.

Exhibitions (Solo)

2022: Ritual for a Soul Search. Morton Fine Art, Washington
2021: O Livro de Ndimande. Galleria Kulungwana, Maputo
2021: Oferenda. Centro Cultural (Moçambique-Brazil), CCbM 
2020: Mother's Gift. GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2018: The forms of the Invisible Demand. WORLDART gallery, Cape Town.  
2016: A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta II (Sounds of a Free Soul). World Art gallery, Cape Town.
2012: A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta. Centro Cultural Franco-Mocambicano, Maputo.
2004: Metamorforse de Saco. Associacao Mocambicana de Fotografia, Maputo.

Group Exhibitions (Mozambique)

2023: Passos pela Vida (Steps for Life), Arte de Gema, Maputo.
2013: Sombres, Movimentos e Sonhos, American Cultural Centre, Maputo.
2004: Arte no Feminino, Museu Nacional de Mocambique, Maputo.
2003: Ma Maf Festival, Centro Cultural Franco Mozambicano, Maputo.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2023: Creating a New Whole, Morton Fine Art, Washington
2022: African Identities. AKKA Project Venezia, Venice.
2021: I Have a Dream!.Group exhibition, AKKA Project Venezia, Venice.
2021: Deus ex femina. Group exhibition, AKKA Project Dubai, Al Quoz 1
2020: Knoop/Knot. Gus Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2020: Woodfees Festival, Stellenbosch.
2020: Hermanus FynArts Festival, Hermanus, South Africa.
2020: Cycle of Celebrations 100 Years of Cruzeiro Seixas. Perve Gallery, Lisbon.
2020: Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium. Vestfossen, Norway. 
2019: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2019: Speculative Inquiry #1 (On abstraction), Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town. 
2019: 51.3%, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town. 
2019: Hermanus FynArts Festival, Hermanus, South Africa.
2019: Strange Stuttering Shapes. Woordfees Festival, Stellenbosch
2019: Perve Gallery 20th anniversary. Lisboa
2019: Fynart Festival. Hermanus.
2018: Gates of Horn and Ivory, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin. 
2018: Gallery is Art, Franschoek.
2018: Images of Displacement, District Six Homecoming Centre Gallery, Cape Town. 
2018:AKAA Art Fair, Paris.
2018:Instanbul Art Fair, Turkey.
2017: Emotes Incorporadas, Perve gallery, Alfama.
2017: 35. Lizamore and Associates, Johannesburg.
2017: City lights…and shadows. Stephen Welz, Johannesburg.
2017: Dress code. Gallery MoMo. Cape Town.
2017: Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2017: Art Africa Fair, Cape Town.
2016: Beyond Binaries. Essence Festival, Durban.
2016: 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, London.
2015: In Print / In Focus, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.
2007: Voyage Ensemble: A Journey Together, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town.
2007: Africa South, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2006: Face (in), Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
2006: Cape Town Art Festival, Artscape, Cape Town.
2005: Colour Me, Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town.
2004: Evento Bolsa de Turismo, Feira de Arte, Lisbon.

Collections

Mozambican Consulate, Cape Town.

Private collections in Italy, Spain, Portugal and South Africa.

Fashion Shows

2024: Remember, You Are Unique, Art Africa, Denis Goldberg House of Hope, Cape Town, South Africa

Publications

2013: Viva Magazine, August issue.
2008: Cape unplugged, Issue 3, pp 35-37
2007: Soul Fibre, Love Cape Town, Issue 1.
2007: Love Cape Town magazine. Volume 1. pp 56, 57
2007: “Migration Week”, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town.
2007: Rootz Africa, volume 24.
2006: Cape Times, 21 September. Cape Argus, 11 August.
2005: The Tatler, October.
2004: Jornal Noticias, Maputo, 6 October.
2004: Jornal Savana, Maputo, 8th and 29th October.

Commissions

2003-2010: Clothing and wall hanging commissions, private clients.
2009: Wall hangings, Lim Interior Design.

Awards

2004: First Prize, Evento Bolsa de Turismo Competition.

Links

Page featuring works from World Art
Page featuring works from Voyage Ensemble
Page featuring interview with adjective.co.za
Lizza Littlewort

Lizza Littlewort

b. 1963, Cape Town. Lives in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa.

Lizza Littlewort produces paintings that reflect critically on history, the environment, and on art historical conventions.

Arts Education

2013: Honours in English Literature, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2000: Postgraduate Diploma, Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1990: Bachelor of Architecture, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Exhibitions (solo)

2019: San Francisco Art Haus, Los Gatos, Silicon Valley, California.
2018: It Seemed to Throw a Kind of Light, 99 Loop St, Cape Town.
2016: The Great Grief, 99Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2016: The Broker's Coke Dream: A History of the Current Age, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: We Live In The Past, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2008: Where the Troubles Started, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
2007: White Elephant, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.
2006: The Paris Salon, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.
2005: Raw Over-Cooked, Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Drawing on a White Background, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2005: How did Lizza meet Jake Chapman?, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town. 
2004: I want to be famous, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town. 

Exhibitions (group)

2010: Sex Cake Death, Wessel Snyman Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Own Goal, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2008: Fresh Meat, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.
2008: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. 
2003: Ydesire, Cape Town Castle, Cape Town.
2003: Eat Shit and Die, Cape Town Castle, Cape Town.

Other

2010: Co-curator, Swallow my pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
Early 1990s: Member, illustrator and storyboard artist, Story Circle Collective.

Links

Lizza Littlewort