PERCY KONQOBE
(b.1939, South Africa)

Percy Ndithembile Konqobe was born in 1939 in Nigel, Gauteng in South Africa. Konqobe is largely self-taught as an artist. He started his artistic practice in the 1970s, and was encouraged by the sculptor Sydney Khumalo, who Konqobe has credited as his mentor and a continued source of inspiration for the style and subject matter of his work. Konqobe works predominantly in clay, as well as bronze rendering abstracted human and animal forms. Konqobe’s figurative interpretations channel religious and cultural themes, which often derive from his dreams. He had his first solo exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg in 1988. He has subsequently exhibited with Everard Read and has been included in local and international public and private collections.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020
Bronze, Steel, Stone & Bone, Everard Read, London, UK