Where did Dumile Feni go to school?

Mgijima Bantu Community School
Dumile travelled alone on a segregated train from Cape Town to Queenstown. He became a patient at Isolation Hospital, now Philani Clinic. He enrolled at Mgijima Bantu Community School, or Kwa Israel as it was known by the local community.

When and where was Dumile Feni born?

May 21, 1942, Worcester, South Africa
Dumile Feni/Born

What are the most famous pieces Dumile Feni has created?

Notable works

• Mother and Child, ca. 1967.
• Untitled #18 (Studies for sculpture, double sided) 1985. Contact for Price.
• Untitled (Seated Woman), ca. 1965. Contact for Price.
• Untitled (Bending Over Backwards)
• Mother and Child, 1966.
• Untitled (Lovers), 1985.
• Untitled (Supplicant Figure), 1985.
• Three Pregnant Women, 1967.

What was Dumile Feni choice of medium and typical style?

Dumile was primarily a graphic artist, working almost entirely in monochrome. He was also an exceptionally gifted sculptor and many of his drawings, executed entirely in a linear fashion, have a profound sculptural quality.

Where did Dumile Feni born?

Worcester, South Africa
Dumile Feni/Place of birth

What media did Dumile Feni use?

Drawing
Dumile Feni/Forms

What influenced Bonnie ntshalintshali?

Ntshalintshali was born into a family of farm labourers in KwaZulu-Natal. Her mother saw art as a way for her to find alternative work. Ntshalintshali’s art allowed her to portray elements of her Zulu traditions and customs, but she was also influenced by Halsted’s Western approach to art.

What is Bonnie Ntshalintshali famous for?

A ceramicist and sculptor, Bonnie Ntshalintshali constructed complex and colourful artwork, drawing inspiration from her Christian upbringing, rural surroundings and Zulu traditions. She shaped and fired clay before hand painting and decorating her work with meticulous detail.

Which school did Bonnie Ntshalintshali go to?

mission school
In many of her works, Ntshalintshali drew inspiration from her early years at mission school. She won numerous awards throughout her career, among them the Corobrik National Ceramic Award in 1988 and the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1990.

What makes Bonnie Ntshalintshali work unique?

What makes Bonnie ntshalintshali work unique?

Which school did Bonnie Ntshalintshali attend?

As a girl she survived polio and was considered unsuited to heavy physical farmwork, so she was apprenticed to learn ceramics with Fée Halsted-Berning at Ardmore Ceramics. She had some further training at the University of Natal in 1990.

Who is Dumile Feni and what did he do?

Other people can worry about that. I must work (Simon, 1968: 41). Dumile Feni remains an enigma in South African art: an artist held in high regard premised on a mere fraction of his oeuvre and a man about whom so little is known.

When was Dumile Feni exhibited at Grahamstown Festival?

Anitra Nettleton reviewing Dumile Feni: Drawings from the 1960s exhibited at the 1991 Grahamstown Festival commented as follows:

When was Dumile Feni introduced to Madame Haenggi?

Circa 1960, Dumile was introduced to Madame Haenggi, who invited Dumile to bring some of his work to the Queens Gallery. Despite a lack of official records of any commercial dealing between Haenggi and Dumile at this time, the two remained in contact. Haenggi would open Gallery 101 in 1961.

When did Bill Ainslie invite Dumile Feni to London?

In 1967, Bill Ainslie wrote a letter wrote to Eric Estorick of the Grosvenor Gallery asking him to invite Dumile to London for an exhibition. This letter would not be binding, serving simply to give Dumile the grounds upon which to obtain a passport and visa.