Notes

In 2019, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of South Africa’s democracy, artist Zanele Muholi initiated a project involving 25 young artists from Durban. The brief to participants involved reinterpreting photographs from Muholi’s celebrated self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama (2012-ongoing) in any media. Most of the participants opted for either drawing or painting. Supervised by Muholi and a team of collaborators, the project culminated in two exhibitions, both titled Ikhono LaseNatali, held at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban, and A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town. Lindokuhle Khumalo and Lindani Nyandeni contributed multiple works to both exhibitions.

Lindokuhle Khumalo (born 1995, Ndwedwe) is a graduate of the BAT Centre in Durban. He completed a course in textile printing at the ELC Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal in 2016. Proficient in charcoal and acrylic, he has since 2020 settled on a pop figurative style of rendering his black subjects in unmixed and contrasting colours. His works frequently depict his younger sisters. ‘Being raised by wonderful women made me realise how they positively impacted me to become the man I am today,’ Khumalo has said.¹ His work has been widely exhibited internationally, notably in Amersfoort, London and Paris, and forms part of a large collection of contemporary African art assembled by Dutch collectors Carla and Pieter Schulting.

^1. Carla Schulting & Lara Stolwerk (eds) (2023) Africa Supernova, Amersfoort: Kunsthal KAdE, page 222.

Exhibited

KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban, Ikhono LaseNatali, 7 May to 1 June 2019, other interpretations from the series exhibited.