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Mazibuko, Xolile

Xolile was born in Durban in 1984 and raised in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains in Bergville.  She attended Emmaus Primary School and Mafu High School, where after she completed a one year course in Fine Art at the BAT Centre in Durban.   

Xolile says that she uses the medium of painting to convey and express her views on her culture and how she experiences life as a young black woman from a traditional Zulu background.    She refers to herself as a profoundly spiritual person and a follower of the Shembe faith.   Xolile attests to being deeply aggrieved for her community and for the disadvantaged and often makes reference to the neglect of basic human rights.   

Still based at the BAT Centre, Xolile facilitates workshops at the BAT Centre and visual art classes at the Durban Art Gallery.  She has participated in numerous exhibitions in the Menzi Mchunu Art Gallery at the BAT Centre, the African Art Centre, the Durban Art Gallery and the Durban University of Technology Art Gallery.  She has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes and in 2007 and 2009 she was selected as one of the top 100 artists South Africa’s largest contemporary art exhibition, the Spier Contemporary.  In 2010 she was selected as one of the top 10 artists for the Comrades Marathon Art Competition. 

Xolile is an exceptional muralist and participated in the completion of the mural at the Ekhaya Multi Art Centre at KwaMashu and in 2008 she was invited to work on a mural at an Elementary School and Sport Garden in Frankford, Europe.

Her work is represented in the collection of the Durban Art Gallery and Nando’s South Africa.

Currently Xolile is a full time artist, working in Durban who is emerging as a distinctive new voice.

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