Woza Moya Artists wall: we are so happy to finally have found a sponsor for the artists wall, we would like to thank the 100% Foundation for coming on board for a 12 month sponsorship and making this monthly event possible. Nomsa Ngidi is the third artist, who will be featured for the month of August, as a celebration of Women’s Month. So look forward to meeting new artists from our area!

The concept behind the Woza Moya Artist’s Wall and Artist’s Cards is to create and showcase work for artists who have been hard hit by Covid. Each month a different Artist is paid to paint a 1,2m x 1,2m wall panel which is displayed on the wall outside our Woza Moya, Hillcrest AIDS Centre shop. Woza Moya assists the artist by marketing their work for the entire month their work is on display. A greeting card is made of the painted wall panel and sold in our shops so that artists can earn an ongoing passive income.

The painting is for sale and people can bid for the painting, bidding starts at R1500 at the start of each month, bidding will close at the end of the month and the person who has the highest bid gets to purchase the painting, the artist will get a further percentage of the sale. To assist the artist we have reproduced the artwork on a gift card and the artist gets 50 %  of the profit from the sale of his or her cards. If you love the artist’s work please support them by buying a card. The card sales help artists earn a passive income. Other Interested artists can submit a sketch of what they would like to do on the wall, entries will be evaluated. Artists should email:  wozamoya@hillaids.org.za

We are honoured to have Nomsa Ngidi as the artist of the month, her painting Lunch Break showing children rushing to their school, is very moving and poignant image as  so many children were unable to attend school this last year, Nomsa works in in her own style with Irma Stern overtures.

About Nomsa Ngidi; Nomsa Ngidi was born in 1969 in Johannesburg and grew up in the valley of a 1000 hills in the village called KwaMnamatha. Nomsa attended a rural school where art was not taught. In 1993 she started to work at an art gallery and developed an interest in art. She was inspired by the different paintings and then in 2004 started collecting offcuts of mount board and invested in a little bit of paint and started painting on a Sundays. Liz Bear saw her work and loved it and asked her to get some formal art lessons. She trained with Maggie Strachan and Pascal Chandler in 2013. Since then she has participated in various group exhibitions. In KZNSA member exhibitions and Art Space Durban

The artwork is entitled Lunch break 

This painting is reminiscent of where the artist grew up, through the artwork she remembers going to school with no pocket money and that during lunch break she would see her school mates going in groups to the shops to get something to eat,  she would sit outside on the rocks watching them, and sometimes feeling lucky because sometimes friends would sit with her.

 

Nomsa sells her work through  various Galleries in South Africa and abroad; the Tamasa gallery,African ART Centre, KZNSA Gallery, Art Space Durban and in JHB @ Cherrie De Villiers Gallery and the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town and private Collectors, Artspace Berlin and Canada.

Please click here is you would like to buy one of Nomsa’s greeting cards.