20 Years of Gerard Sekoto
Bulumko Mbete
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Bulumko Mbete – 2023 Bulumko, born in 1995, is a creative practitioner with a multicultural heritage. Her work is based on the concept liminal spaces. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. She undertakes research in different forms of craft and design […]
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Malebogo Molokoane
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Malebogo Molokoane – 2022 Malebogo was born on 22 September 1990 in Rustenburg, North West. After being educated in top-tier environments, she enrolled at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), where she later obtained her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine and Applied Art. She is employed as a part-time lecturer in the TUT Glass Studio. In […]
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Abongile Sidzumo
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Abongile Sidzumo – 2021 Abongile was born in 1996 in Cape Town, where he currently lives and works. He completed his degree in fine arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2019. Abongile received the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize in 2020, which afforded him a solo exhibition titled Dancing in the Dust at […]
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Phoka Nyokong
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Phoka Nyokong – 2019 Phoka is an artist, curator, writer and African cultural scholar. His practice is transdisciplinary. He works across performance, sound/video and installation art, and photography, storytelling, curating, writing, drawing and a current extensive focus on painting. Most of Phoka’s previous exhibitions have been with public institutions, and a few with private institutions. […]
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Philiswa Lila
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Philiswa Lila – 2018 Philiswa Lila is a visual artist and researcher whose work delves into the realms of memory, personal experiences, identities and subjectivities. She uses a range of mediums, including painting, installation art and performance art, and incorporates elements such as beading, wood, paper, photography, video and writing. Philiswa holds a master’s degree […]
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Banele Khoza
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Banele Khoza – 2017 Banele was born in 1994 in Hlatikulu, eSwatini, and currently lives and works in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Durban. He obtained a Bachelor of Technology in Fine Arts from Tshwane University of Technology in 2015. Banele is a South Africa-based visual artist. In 2017, he won the prestigious Gerard Sekoto Award and with […]
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Matete Motubatse
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Matete Motubatse – 2016 Matete won the Absa L’Atelier’s Gerard Sekoto Award in 2016. He was born in South Africa. The character in his film takes the form of a body that tries to blow a physical obstacle – a plastic bag – off its head by using its breath. Matete speaks about breath in […]
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Natalie Moore
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Natalie Moore – 2015 Born in 1990, Natalie is a photographer and mixed-media artist. She won the Gerard Sekoto Award in the 2015 Absa L’Atelier art competition for her photographic triptych Once Upon a Time Jozi. She is also a designer with a particular leaning towards the field of architecture and she completed a Bachelor […]
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Mbavhalelo Nekhavhambe
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Mbavhalelo Nekhavhambe – 2014 Mbavhalelo was born in 1981. He holds a BTech (Fine Arts) and has participated in several exhibitions, including the Absa L’Atelier exhibition in 2012 and 2013. He was a top 10 finalist in 2012 before winning the Gerard Sekoto Award in the same competition two years later. Through his art he […]
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Mongezi Ncaphayi
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Mongezi Ncaphayi – 2013 Mongezi was born in 1983 in Benoni in Eastern Gauteng, where he currently lives and works. Following his graduation with a Diploma in Art and Design from the Ekurhuleni East College in 2005, he completed a professional printmaking course at Artist Proof Studio in 2008. In 2012, Mongezi obtained a Certificate […]
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Bambo Sibiya
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Bambo Sibiya – 2012 Bambo was born in KwaThema, Springs, near Johannesburg. He trained and worked at the Artist Proof Studio Gallery, where he has also worked on large-scale linocuts for several leading artists, including William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Norman Catherine and Colbert Mashile. Rich stylistic detail and textures mark Bambo’s linocuts, drypoint and lithographic […]
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Isabel Mertz
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Isabel Mertz – 2011 Isabel is a visual artist and object maker. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at Nelson Mandela University. She holds a master’s degree in visual arts (cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch and a bachelor’s degree in arts from the University of Pretoria. In 2011, […]
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Bongumenzi Ngobese
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Bongumenzi Ngobese – 2010 Bongumenzi was born in 1987 in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a Durban-based artist who completed his Bachelor of Technology in Fine Arts at the Durban University of Technology. At the time of Absa L’Atelier’s 30th year Introspection, he was studying towards his master’s degree in fine arts at the same university. […]
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Nyaniso Lindi
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Nyaniso Lindi – 2009 Nyaniso is a visual artist and independent curator currently living in Makhanda. He is a Gerard Sekoto Award-winning artist (2009) and studied towards a fine-art degree at Rhodes University. Nyaniso is a master printmaker who uses his technique across print mediums but confesses that relief printing – specifically colour reduction – […]
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Retha Fergurson
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Retha Fergurson – 2008 Retha is a Cape Town-based photographer practising through the medium of documentary photography since 2009. Her documentary work has been exhibited in South Africa, Lesotho, Georgia, France and the USA. She is currently pursuing her PhD in history at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape under the […]
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Nina Barnet
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Nina Barnet – 2007 Nina Barnet was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and lives in Chicago, USA. In 2012, she completed her master’s degree in fine arts at the University of Illinois in Chicago after having obtained her bachelor’s degree in fine arts with distinction at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 2012, […]
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Nomusa Makhubu
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Nomusa Makhubu – 2006 Award-winning artist and hardcore academic Nomusa manages to strike a delicate balance between creativity and intellectualism. She sees the different aspects of what she does as going hand in hand, stating, “The arts are not only forms of expression but are also important modes of reflection that critique intricate sociopolitical environments […]
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Lawrence Lemaoana
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Lawrence Lemaoana – 2005 Lawrence lived in the small mining town of Welkom before returning to Johannesburg to continue his studies. He went on to study for a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Johannesburg, where he received his Bachelor of Technology in Fine Arts. Lawrence is currently reading for a master’s degree […]
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Billie Zangewa
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Billie Zangewa – Won in 2004 Billie was born in Blantyre, Malawi, and she now lives and works in Johannesburg. She made her mark with a debut solo exhibition in Johannesburg in 2004, the same year she won the Gerard Sekoto Award, and has since consistently produced striking artworks and strengthened her unmistakeable universe. Billie’s […]
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