adminMathe, who won the Visual Artist Association of Bulawayo Best Female Artist award last year, will be showing textile designs presented in a contemporary way.
National Gallery in Bulawayo assistant curator, Cliford Zulu, said as a female artist, Nonhlanhla has come to realise the importance of flexibility with benefits of accepting and embracing innovations from the popular batik and tie and dye impressions.
“Nonhlanhla belongs to a generation of artists that emerged strongly in the 90s and filled the gap of practising female artists including Sibonile Khumalo and the late Abigail Dzingire. Mathe is driven by passion, people’s expectations and her experiences,” Zulu said.
He said people’s perceptions of female artists and the environment including the works of art are some of the factors that drive Nonhlanhla and give her the passion to continue striving for excellence.
The assistant curator said as the festive season approaches, the colours on the works that will be on exhibition tomorrow will exude that festive mood.
He called on the art loving and creative community of Bulawayo to come and celebrate with the artist as she reaches a turning point in as far as her work and career was concerned.
Fashion designers, home décor and hoteliers will find the exhibition more appealing to their trade, as the pieces that would be mounted are endowed with originality and ethnicity.
“We are also proud as a gallery to be presenting a new technique, unique to the sector, but appealing to the lovers of aesthetic works of art. At first glance the observer is drawn closer to the work and will enjoy the fine detail and the smart application of media that defines experience.
“The exhibition challenges the idea of movement with the element of refinement. This show offers lovely festive collectables and will be the envy of many talented textile artists and young designers,” he said.
The exhibition wil be officially opened by the senior public relations officer for the City of Bulawayo Nesisa Mpofu.
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