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Mwamba Chikwemba ​

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Born in 1992 in Kitwe, Zambia. Lives in Lusaka, Zambia. Mwamba Chikwemba is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, whose work draws on portraiture and figurative traditions. Influenced by artists such as Geoffrey Phiri, Agness Buya Yombwe, Frida Kahlo, Jenny Saville, and Wycliffe Mundopa, she transitioned from a background in public administration to train under the Visual Arts Council of Zambia. Mwamba has created public murals in Lusaka, Livingstone, Kampala, Antananarivo, and Johannesburg. She has completed residencies at Modzi Arts, Nafasi Art Space, and Greatmore Studios, and received the PUSH Women Award and the Cynthia Zukas Award as well as Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg for printmaking and lithography. 

​Natasha Evans

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Born in 1978 in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Lives in Lusaka, Zambia. Natasha Evans is a mixed media painter influenced by abstract and figurative movements, holding a BA in Illustration from Art Institute at Bournemouth. Inspired by artists such as Anni Albers, Diedrick Brackens, Mark Rothko, and William Kentridge, she layers paper, textiles, pigments, and found materials. Her assemblage explores fragmentation, belonging, metaphor, absence, extraction, and identity. Drawing from her physical, social, and cultural surroundings, she examines the shared human experience. Her work has been exhibited at the Revelation Biennial in Paris and is held in both private and institutional collections. 

FNB ART JOBURG 2024

Henry Tayali 

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Henry Nkole Tayali B. 22 November 1943 , D. 22 July 1987 was a Zambian fine artist, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous abstract painter, and most revered and pre-eminent artist of his time. Tayali’s work looked into the Zambian social commentary and liberation movement of the 1950s. 
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Henry went on a photographic memory seizing the imperative of his country’s traditions in the late-1970s in the hope to create a Centre of Arts at the University. He produced a huge catalogue of photographs which he developed and recorded on slides within his dark room studio, his focused on capturing museum objects, witchcraft processes, ceremonies, design and architecture.


GIF at the FNB Art Joburg a new section that is introduced by the fair is focused on photograph in Africa. We have the privilege unearthed work of Henry Tayali 1943 - 1987, a visual artist researching ancient traditions and contemporary African art within Zambia. Henry’ went on a photographic memory seizing the imperative of his country’s traditions in the late-1970s in the hope to create a Centre of Arts at the University. He produced a huge catalogue of photographs which he developed and recorded on slides within his dark room studio, his focused on capturing museum objects, witchcraft processes, ceremonies, design and architecture.

*The Tayali Collection is founded by Rosemary Tayali, managed by Modzi Arts*

Lawrence Yombwe

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Lawrence Yombwe is an accomplished painter and one of Zambia's most prolific artists living in his time. Born in 1956 in Kalulushi, Zambia, he began his career as a self-taught artist, holding his first solo show at the Copperbelt Museum in 1979. He has since become a respected figure in the art world, known for his unique incorporation of Mbusa imagery in an idiosyncratic abstract style. He currently resides in Livingstone, Zambia, where he continues to create and inspire through his work at the Wayi Wayi Art Studio & Gallery.

​Speaking about his work, Yombwe explains, "In my landscapes, the roads (foot paths) represent our existence, where we are going and where we are coming from. Although these foot paths remind me of the ones I used to take when I was a boy with my father on hunting trips, they speak of a long journey (life) with many bends that seem like they end from a distance but unfold as you approach them."


Yombwe's contributions to the art world extend beyond his own creations. Alongside his wife, Agness Buya Yombwe, he founded the Wayi Wayi Art Studio & Gallery in Livingstone in 2007. As an art educator and mentor, he has significantly influenced Zambia's younger art scene, fostering a new generation of artists who continue to explore and celebrate their cultural heritage.



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FNB ART JOBURG | 8 TO 10 September 2023
​FEATURED ARTIST | Banji Chona

Musyokwe | Ancestral Alter ral Alter 

​An exploration of the forest as an ancestral altar and a plane in which ancestors live on and commune. Leaves, soil, reeds, anthills and clay are her medium; the antennae to which we have to attune in order to open up to the messages of the guiding spirits. 

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FNB ART JOBURG  | 2 TO 4 September 2022
​FEATURED ARTIST | AARON SAMUEL MULENGA

A reflection process where we echo the ideas around ancestors, social comm and symptoms of a misrepresented system. 
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Modzi Arts Gallery at FNB Art Joburg on artsy - 28 Oct to 07 Nov 2021
​Featured artists: Mapopa Hussein Manda + Aaron Samuel Mulenga

Modzi Arts Gallery was established in 2017 in itself a growing voice within contemporary Zambian art, within African contexts and has been at the forefront of reframing the Zambian art market. With the support of Prohelvetia and the Swiss Arts Council, the Modzi Arts Gallery will be participating for a third year running in the annual FNB Art Joburg. We strongly believe in the slow steady growth and innovative approach within contemporary Africa as well as within the diaspora. This year, the Modzi Arts Gallery will be showcasing the works of Mapopa Hussein Manda and Aaron Samuel Mulenga.

MAPOPA HUSSEIN MANDA


AARON SAMUEL MULENGA


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Modzi gallery at FNB art Joburg 2021 catalogue

View the full body of art work showcased by the Modzi Arts Gallery at FNB Art Joburg 2021.

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