Alphen Ntimbane was born in 1952.
He studied at the Mofolo Park Art Centre in Soweto Jubilee Centre.
Alphen's art focuses on the township scene and its people. His preferred medium is watercolour which he uses effectively to depict life in a township.
Exhibitions :
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Anna was born in 1945. She married Solomon Sekhaolelo in 1980 and over the years of their marriage she watched him work at his art and in 1999 she decided to paint with him in her spare time. SHe started in ernest in 2003 and in 2004 she took part… more »
Basil Baqwa Born in 1954 in Soweto. He attended school in Jubalani and it was when he came home from school in the afternoons that he indulged in his love for painting and sketching. After finishing school he worked in an attorneys office cleaning and making tea for the staff.
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Ben Macala was born in Bloemfontein on 21 April 1938.
He spent his early years tending cattle on a farm, and did his first drawings on rock formations using stones. Later his family moved to Gauteng.
Macala?s career as an artist began in 1965. Although he was self-taught… more »
Billy Molokeng was born in 1949 in the township of Alexandra. He lost his parents at a young age and was brought up by his sisters. In order to make a living, he sold his drawings and paintings.
His talents being recognised, he was sponsored to attend a private art… more »
David Mbele was born in Johannesburg in 1942. From an early age he developed an interest in art and sketched all aspects of township life around him. He spent his time after school copying cartoons from the newspapers.
In 1958 he attended art classes at the Jubilee Art Centre under… more »
Dumisani Sibisi was born in March 1962 in Senoane Soweto.
He attended the Emaweni Primary School, where he started copying drawings from textbooks. At the tender age of nine, he started sketching everything around him. Thereafter, he attended Enkanyezini Higher Primary School where an art teacher gave lessons as part… more »
Eli Kobeli was born in Kroonstad (Free State) in 1932.
Eli was a painter of urban life, figures and abstract pictures. He studied under the American missionary, Reverend Hall Duncan and Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg.
He worked in oils, gouache (method of painting in… more »
Godfrey Sipho Ndaba was born in 1947. One of eleven children, he has lived in Soweto all his life.
His fascination with art came from an early age as every time it rained he would draw faces in the wet soil. Painting became an obsession as Godfrey made portraits of… more »
Grand Maghandlela was born in 1960 on a mission station in Kwa Zulu Natal.
In 1968 went to live with his Grandmother who worked as a domestic worker in a house in Berea, Durban. He went to school in a township nearby but when he came home he would sit… more »
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