Artists

CURATOR

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Vuyiso Tshabalala is a writer, content creator, producer, model and curator. She studied accounting but her love for everything creative has become dominant. She has worked at Turbine Art Fair 2018 & 2019 and produced & styled the Brentwood and Samson SS18/19 photo shoots. Vuyiso spends her time producing fashion and hair films, fashion editorials, writing and modelling for visual artists.

Artist

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Ludwe Mgolombane is a sculpture artist from the Eastern Cape who studied at the P.E. College School of Art & Design as well as the Nelson Mandela University. Ludwe makes ceramic sculptures that bring the portraits of city dwellers and people who live in slums as they work and navigate the city in to 3D sculptures that draw in the viewer into the story of the subject.

Artist

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Nkosinathi Quwe is a visual artist from Eastern Cape whose work is full of colours, stories, rhythm and textures of the rural Transkei he grew up in. He has a B-Tech in Fine Art from University of Johannesburg. Nkosinathi’s work not only reflects on his personal journey, but it also heals and gives a voice to the voiceless. Charcoal and paint on paper are Nkosinathi’s main media; his compositions are also influenced by the multi-faceted and multi-layered stories from his childhood told to him by his grandmother and inspiration from artists like Dumile Feni and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Nkosinathi has participated in numerous art exhibitions.

Artist

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Zanele Mashinini is a contemporary South African visual artist known for her monochrome pallet painted portraits with geometric bright patterns from indigenous fabrics that explore Hybridity and Multiculturalism. She graduated with a B-Tech degree in Visual Arts from the University of Johannesburg. Mashinini’s work explores the notion of ‘Hybridity’ within Gender-roles, Self-representation, Culture and Language in the city of Johannesburg and it’s surrounding Metropolis. Her interest and fascination of Cultural exchange through association and interaction with people of different cultural groupings, fuels her subject matter. Mashinini reflects the idea of one culture seeping into the other by referencing lifestyle and self-representation as an influence or rather agents of informing the state of individuals becoming Hybrids. Zanele has participated in numerous exhibitions in Gauteng, Cape Town and Senegal.

h with people from all walks of life.

Artist

BIO:

Levy attended King Edward VII School where he started to take his artistic career seriously and studied Fine Arts at the University of Witwatersrand where he specialised in painting. Having not finished his degree he enrolled for a photography course at Market Photo Workshop in Newtown where his harnessed his new found love for photography. Levy’s work is driven primarily by individual memories, the idea of art as a social diary, a public diary. His subject matter being social spaces, encounters as well as cultural exchange. The work speaks to the socio political, bringing forth the mundane, the joys the doubts, the ups the downs of being a young black man moulded by the city and trimmed by the village.what may.