Bulumko Mbete, born in 1995, is a Joburg based artist and creative
practitioner with multicultural heritage. Mbete completed her BFA at
the Michaelis School of Fine Art. She undertakes research in
different forms of craft design making. These methodologies are
predominantly performed by women in Southern Africa. Bulumko is
interested in materiality through using textile, beading, natural
dyeing and weaving she creates a framework to communicate
generational traditions and gestures of love. Mbete s interests
expand into ways of engaging with the archive and using the archive
for creative storytelling. In this pursuit, she uses archival matter such
as photographs, textiles, and clothes. She explores the geographic
connections and synchronicities within her family in relation to
South African history and its effect on migration, labour, farming
and love.