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Moses Oyeleye – Nigeria (Group C).
Portfolio Statement

Moses Oyeleye describes every individual’s journey as having an inherent void – a space waiting to be filled. For him, this void serves as a wellspring of artistic exploration, from where the marriage of jigsaw puzzles and the fluid lines of his pen drawings becomes a vessel with which he navigates the concepts of wholeness […]

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Kutlwano Monyi – South Africa (Group A).
Portfolio Statement

Kutlwano Monyi is based in Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa. She’s an artist, an art researcher and a freelance writer.   Armed with a degree in fine and applied arts, which she obtained from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in 2018, Kutlwano is currently completing a YWSR Young Women Studio residency at the Bag Factory. […]

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Lusanda Ndita – South Africa (Group GS).
Portfolio Statement

Lusanda Ndita is a South African visual artist. His practice is one of self-investigation through cultivation of his family’s domestic archive of images, oral narratives and various artefacts, such as an Apartheid dompas that belonged to his grandfather. Lusanda’s practice serves as a contemporary album that tells the story of his heritage and life experiences.

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Ezra Appiah – Ghana (Group B).
Portfolio Statement

Ezra Appiah lives and works in Kumasi, Ghana. His series of paintings highlights the everyday lives and experiences of people in hybrid cultural spaces.     Ezra’s work questions the ideas of paintings from the classical era and those done by the old masters, in which there is a background and foreground. He reframes this composition […]

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