Phenyo Melody Madiba is announced as the 2019 winner of the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize, a self-funded art prize that offers the artist three months residency at Victoria Yards, a materials fund, a three months stipend and a show at Everard Read Johannesburg.

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Blessing Ngobeni in collaboration with Legate Lithography Editions (LL Edition) has recently participated in the Venice Biennale. The exhibition entitled 'Ubuntuism Re-enchanted', curated by Ruzy Rusike, draws inspiration from the poem 'The Rise of Shaka' written by Mazisi Kunene.

Kunene's poem toys with the effect of absence and presence, where excess of the latter suffocates and the former piques interest. Ngobeni draws inspiration from the dichotomy of nature and urbanisation. This exhibition is currently on display until the 4 November 2019.

Blessing Ngobeni's work Land Exchange has been acquired for the permanent collection by Iziko South African National Gallery

Everard Read Cape Town exhibits at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019, exhibiting works by artists including Brett Murray, Deborah Bell, Blessing Ngobeni, Nigel Mullins, Andrzej Urbanski, Beezy Bailey and Beth Diane Armstrong.

Blessing Ngobeni, on the occasion of A Note From Error at Everard Read Johannesburg, is the subject of an interview feature on Mail&Guardian

 For the full interview click here.

Award winning artist Blessing Ngobeni will also be exhibiting a solo show, A Note from Error at Everard Read in Johannesburg, from 15 November until 21 December. 

Watch a video of Ngobeni in his studio discussing his practice and thoughts on being an artist.

Everard Read London presents

Blessing Ngobeni

A Note From Error

19 October - 10 November 2018

Everard Read London present a solo exhibition by Johannesburg based artist Blessing Ngobeni. Fuelled by the social injustices of post-Apartheid South Africa, Ngobeni joins a distinguished lineage of artists who dare to critique the status quo. His work is said to “borrow from the language of Surrealism, the anarchy of Dada and the figurative violence of Neo-Expressionism." * 

*Vitamin P3 New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, 2016

Blessing Ngobeni is the subject of a feature, with quotes from the artist, discussing his life story and his triumph over adversity, on VaVida eMagazine.

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Ngobeni's work is on show during Everard Read London's solo exhibition Blessing Ngobeni: A Note From Error from 19 October to 10 November. For more information or to request a portfolio please follow here.