Ka-Mkame, Sfiso

Bobbie Burgers is a contemporary Canadian painter. Her lush and Expressionistic depictions of flowers teeter on the verge of abstraction, bursting with bright color and laden with thickly applied, textural paint. “Flowers, to me, are the opposite of still,” the artist has explained. “Changing from minute to minute, they are perfect symbols for life, death, yearning, and beauty. My brushstrokes are layered with my own internal charges, depicting anger, frustration, softness, wanting, and more.” Born in 1973 in Vancouver, Canada, she studied Art History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad, notably including Art Market San Francisco and Equinox Gallery. Today, her works are in the collections of the Berost Corporation in Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada, among others. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Ka-Mkame, Sfiso

Date of Birth: 1963,
Place of Birth: Pinetown, KwaZulu Natal

He lives in the Clermont area and produces his works from his Cator Manor Studio which he shares with Zamani Mkhanya, Paul Sibisi and Lindelani Ngwenya. He

is mainly a self taught artist who began practicing in the 1980s.

Sifiso has also been actively involved in Various Community Workshops particularly the The Thupelo Workshops initiated by David Koloane and Bill Ainslie in Johannesburg in the mid 1980s.

His popular works of the 1980s titled ‘love letters’ depicted struggle and protest themes directed to the apartheid regime in South Africa. His work is often executed in oil pastel colours which are layered to create texture and tone therefore accentuating the subject dipicted.

1982: Attended Abangani Open School

in Durban where he received an art training.
1983: Little Abbeu Theatre, Durban – art classes
1986: Student teacher in screen printing

at the Community Arts Workshop, Durban
1987 Clermont Arts Society – founder member
1989/1990 Thupelo Arts Project Johannesburg
1991 Aids in Canada workshop – posters for Southern Africa Education Trust Fund

Exhibitions:
1986: Cafe Geneve, Durban (Community Arts
           Workshop: group)
         : Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Durban (Artists
           Against Conscription: group)
1987: Clermont Arts Society:
          : Paul Mikula Assoc. Zasha Group
          : University of Zululand (African Arts Festival:
1988: Grassroots Gallery, Westville (3-person show)
1989: Vulamehlo (Dbn art Gallery/ Alliance Francaise:
1990: NSA Gallery “Thus spoke the cultural worker”
          “Faith & Trust”, Goodman Gallery
          Standard Bank Travelling Group Show
          Grassroots Gallery S.A. Printmakers
          Volkskas Atelier Competition travelling show
          Oxford Art Museum U.K. Zabalaza Art Festival
1993: Yesterday Today Tomorrow (AAC: group)
1994    Venice Bienniale Italy
Paul Mikula Assoc. Zasha Art Group
Neglected Tradition – Jhb. Art Gallery
    Triennial Cape Town
   “Images from Note and Song”Ntsikana Gallery Grahamstown
1994 Johannesburg Bienniale: Women of Africa “Rise with the Sun” in Canada
1995 Bat Centre Solo “Me and my conscience”“Common & Uncommon Ground”, City Gallery East Jhb :
S.A. Art to Atlanta U.S.A. and Stuttgart Meets Durban/Durban meets Stuttgart
1996 Lifetimes Kunstaus dem sudlichen Afrika –“Out of Afrika”, Munchen 1997 group show
1999 Goodman Gallery with Percy Kongobe
              Klein Karoo National Arts Festival
              “Emergence” Durban Art Gallery
2000 The African Art Centre, Solo Exhibition
2001 Asibuke Abantu – Group Exhibition
2002 Abelumbi- Untold Tales of Magic, Durban Art Gallery
2002    The African Art Centre, Solo Exhibition
2003    Association of Visual Arts(AVA) Solo Exhibition, CapeTown
2003 KZN Veterans, Group Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery
2004 “Summer” Group Exhibition, African Art Centre
2004 Art for Conservation, International Convention Centre (ICC)
2005 “ties that bind” Group Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery
2009 “Celebrate Durban” at the Kizo Gallery in Gateway
2010 ‘Izikhwepaha Zethu V1’ Group Exhibition at the Durban Art Gallery