5/05 – 08/06/2012
An exciting new concept show featuring young artists and designers from Swaziland working together to give new life to old ideas by mixing mediums, creating art pieces and redesigning functional items.
The LifeCycle exhibition is running parallel to the MTN Bushfire Festival. It is an exciting new concept show featuring young artists and designers from Swaziland working together to give new life to old ideas by mixing mediums, creating art pieces and redesigning functional items. It is the first time that a unique show like this has been organized in Swaziland, and will become an ongoing project for all the artists and designers involved.
Come witness local artists and designers thinking outside the circle! This exciting show will run concurrently through the Bushfire Festival until the 7th of June. Several of the artists exhibiting in LifeCycle will also be participating at the Yebo Gallery space at the Bushfire Festival. They will be collaborating together on art installations and working on their own pieces, offering a unique and creative twist on the artist’s studio inside the new Bushfire venue “The Barn”.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
QUAZI DESIGN is a team of women lead by designer DORON SHALTIEL that turn waste magazines into original accessories and interiors, pushing the boundaries of craft, responsibility and quality design – www.quazidesign.com
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JEREMPAUL is an innovative, contemporary & ethical lifestyle brand headed by designer & artist KHULEKANI MSWELI – a focus on fashion gives life to his unique approach to style, art, food, books, nature & everything in between…
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DANE ARMSTRONG works through YEBO! to create quirky and original pieces of art that are also sometimes useful. he likes working with found materials, and has a penchant for bright colours, dark contrasts and sarcastic witticisms.
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VUMELANI SIBEKO hails from both soweto and swaziland, & works with found materials to create mixed media canvases on contemporary life, he is currently exhibiting at Joburg Art Gallery & working towards a residency in new york
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SPOKO DESIGN is run by “hand-mad” artist Bhekani Dlamini, who works with recycled paper to create furniture & art that break down the walls of normality!
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MBONGENI FAKUDZE works with multimedia, digital and mixed media to create installations and artworks that portrays a reality twisted from convention
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MESULI MAMBA works primarily with collage and mixed media to give us glimpses of our crazy world – he recently featured in a profile on Mail & Guardian through Yebo gallery
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ANGELO DLAMINI studied fine art in South Africa, and is exhibiting for the first time in Swaziland – he is working on new woodcut prints to be exhibited at Yebo later in the year
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PACHIMANA is lead by designer Ray Mhishi, who is an expert weaver with an eye for colour, specialising in unique hand-weaving and craft or furniture restoration
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LEONARD THEMBATSA lives in Luve where he has been expertly hand-weaving carpets and cloth from recycled and reused material for longer than anyone can every remember
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ALETA ARMSTRONG is a graphic designer, artist and director at YEBO – in today’s crazy world, she finds sanity through painting and drawing
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STEVE CHAPPELL teaches by day and vents his hopes and fears through art by night