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Buthelezi has been working on and developing a unique technique of art making using discarded plastics of a certain quality in a melting process, he paints in imposters solid forms burnt with a heat gun onto a thick, roofing-plastic surface. He has created a new form of painting, a so-called plastic painting. His unique paintings are often larger than life. He is able to work realistically and abstractly, with the technique being extremely detailed.

After completing his studies at the African Institute of Art he enrolled for a teacher training programme at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, which he completed in 1998. He then participated in the Standard Bank Arts Festival as a guest artist. This was followed by studies at University of the Witwatersrand where he graduated with an advanced Diploma in Fine Arts. He was then invited to the Artelierhaus Hoherweg e.V in Düsseldorf for an artists residency and in 1999 was again invited to the Vermont Studio Center in New York for four Months and took part in a big South African group exhibition at the Museum for African Art I’m New York. Other residencies included the OMI international Artists center in NewYork and the Barbados Community College as guest artist, Kunist Rain Stylt-Quelle Tantrum (Stylt island) and Wiesbaden, Germany.