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For Sale Project Exhibition 2012
However if I may be allowed the privilege to give a general commentary on creativity itself I would like to offer that the artist, the creative person whatever the vocation of creativity that they are grappling with, for them concentration is everything. For in their pursuit to reach the original artwork the artist must work… →
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Reorientation of Visual Arts Education in RSA
The Arts role in any Nation is crucial, the arts remind us of who we are: Through writing, performance and the Visual Arts. Without the Arts societies will lead an existence banal of the aesthetic. The arts alongside scientific discoveries narrated by historical accounts explain who we are from a creativity perspective. We would be… →
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Hosea Matlou: Towards Simplicity
Arriving in Gauteng – Tshwane in the new century Matlou hailed from Polokwane in Ga-Sekgopo district. His plans initially were to study Finance and accounting at Tshwane University of Technology (then Pretoria Technical College). With minimum training in the visual art received from sessions attended at a community based art project Matlou left the institution… →
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Mbongeni R. Buthelezi – Blowing life into plastic
There I was on that Sunday beholding his rather stocky frame perusing Leornado’s anatomical facsimiles in Preiss Hal – one of the Art Museum’s gallery. It was five to six hours later after watching the pre-recorded interview of his. I chanced a greeting and I was delighted when he gave me a friendly reply punctuated… →