Owen Martin and Portia Malatjie take us into the world of Black South African Women Artists, 1940 – 2000 in an interview on the Sanlam Arts Round Up on Fine Music Radio, FMR 101.3fm.
Director and Chief Curator of the Norval Foundation, Owen Martin, and Portia Malatjie, who co-curated When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940 – 2000, provide thoughtful insights into an exhibition that is a cross-generational communion of 40 Black women artists, spanning from early Modernism to the contemporary period.
Listen to the Sanlam Arts Round Up on Fine Music Radio FMR 101.3fm every Friday at 16h15
Owen and Portia help us reflect upon the influential and often unacknowledged contributions of Black women to South African art history in the twentieth century.
The exhibition brings together works by Selina Baloyi, Edith Bukani, Ros Buthelezi, Regina Buthelezi, Dudu Cele, Valerie Desmore, Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa, Patience Dlamini, Emilia, Faiza Galdhari, Josephine Ghesa, Bina Gumede, Francis Halala, Bongi Kasiki, Noria Mabasa, Diana Mabunda, Rosinah Maepa, Esther Mahlangu )photo above), Venus Makhubele, Letisa Mashawu, Esther Maswanganyi, Sisanda Mbana, Elizabeth Mbatha, Katherine Mchunu, Gladys Mgudlandlu, Judith Mkhabela, Dinah Molefe, Ruth Motau , Alina Ndebele, Henrie e Ngako, Rita Ngcobo, Gabisile Nkosi, Bonnie Ntshantshali, Sophie Peters, Helen Sebidi, Alvitha Sooful, Kedibone and Sarah Tabane.
Expressed through a Black African feminist lens, Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela, give us an extraordinary overview that makes for compelling viewing!
WHAT: Owen Martin and Portia Malatjie in conversation about When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940 – 2000
WHERE: Norval Foundation, 4 Steenberg Road, Tokai Cape Town 7945
WHEN: 9 February 2022 – 9 January 2023
INFO: T +27 87 654 5900 | E info@norvalfoundation.org | Visit
Norval Foundation [18]
The WHAT, WHY & WHERE of the
arts scene in around Cape Town
see the 2022 arts + crafts map
and listen in to the Sanlam
Arts Round-Up Fridays @16:15
on Fine Music Radio FMR 101.3fm
PHOTO: Esther Mahlangu – BMW 7 Series – Magicians of the Earth, Paris, 1989
