Artists

Azwifarwi Ragimana was born in 1962 in Chandama Village in the Limpopo Province. He was schooled at Chandama Primary and Tengua Secondary School. Today, Azwifarwi lives in Allubimbi Village (Limpopo Province), with his wife and four children. As with the majority of rural artists, Azwifarwi has no formal art training.

Azwimpheleli Magoro lives at Muledane near Thohoyandou, Venda. His love for carving started in primary school and he soon started carving wooden spoons, jugs and knives from soft indigenous woods like Marula and Wild Fig, with chisels made out of sharpened bicycle spokes and screw drivers.

David Murathi was born in 1967, at Tshakhuma village (Venda), Northern Province. He studied at Luvhalani School from Grade 0 to Grade 12, and at the age of 18, started working as an artist. David was greatly influenced by his uncle, Mr. Churchill Madzivhandila.

David Rossouw was born in Johannesburg in 1959. While in Standard 2, he won an art prize, even though he had painted a red sky. David matriculated in 1977, and in 1979, he attended art classes at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, under the tutelage of Bill Ainslie and William Kentridge.

“I am attempting to make objects of beauty and contemplation, and also to build forms that are capable of unpredictability. Movement is compelling. People are drawn to unpredictable movement. My sculptures move, often manipulated by the viewer, and in this way, both movement and random human intervention become employed as “material” in the work”.

Ferdie Hartzenberg was born in Middelburg on 17 March 1972. He obtained a BA Technologiae Fine Art (Honours) at the Technikon Pretoria in 1997, with sculpture, art theory and art history as major subjects, with ceramics as a sub major for three years.

He spent two years traveling Europe and since his return in 1999, he has worked full time as a sculptor, working mainly in steel.