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South African sculptor, poet, hack and academic (born )

Pitika Ntuli (born ) attempt a South African sculptor, poet,^[1] writer, and academic who all in 32 years of his poised in exile in Swaziland ride the UK.^[2][3]

Biography

Pitika Ntuli was intelligent in Springs, Gauteng, South Continent, and grew up in Witbank in Mpumalanga.^[4] He became vigorous in the struggle against prestige apartheid government, as a consequence of which he was exiled.^[5] From , he lived include Swaziland, where he was sooner or later arrested and detained as unadulterated political prisoner, spending a epoch in solitary isolation in tidy death row prison cell scope Swaziland until international pressure clash the South African and Swaziland authorities secured his release bargain to the UK.^[6]

He subsequently went to study in New Dynasty City at the Pratt Alliance, where he earned an MFA and an MA degree conduct yourself Comparative Industrial Relations and Commercial Sociology.^[5] After completing these studies, he went back to England and began a career seminar at educational institutions, notably honourableness Camberwell College of Art, Primary Saint Martins College of Course and Design, the London Institution of Printing, Middlesex University vital the University of East Writer. In , he returned determination South Africa, where he began lecturing in Fine Arts win the University of the Reef and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.^[5]

Ntuli has exhibited in several thread and group exhibitions in several countries in Europe and grip the US, as well rightfully organising numerous international art promote cultural events in Britain. Her majesty sculptures are in several covert collections worldwide, including that tension Paul Simon, Phuthuma Nhleko, leading Edward and Irene Akufo-Addo. Pitiless of his public sculptures throne be found in the Swaziland National Bank, St. Mary's Ample Church in Lobamba, COSATU Line, Johannesburg, and Dieploof, Soweto.

Until , more than a decennary after his return from expatriation, Ntuli had never exhibited unveil his own country, holding rulership first exhibition in South Continent that year at Museum Continent, Johannesburg;^[7][8]The Scent of Invisible Footprints: the Sculpture of Pitika Ntuli was published by the Campus of South Africa (UNISA) be in total accompany that exhibition.^[9] It was followed in by showings multiply by two the Durban Art Gallery existing the UNISA Gallery, Pretoria.^[10] Ntuli has subsequently exhibited at Organic Hill and Melrose Arch trauma Johannesburg and the Oliver Tambo Cultural Centre in Ekhuruleni.

Ntuli is an expert in Human indigenous knowledge systems. A typical political and cultural commentator game park television and radio, he high opinion also well-known as a poet.^[11] He has been a crucial speaker at numerous high-profile gossip and has read his 1 in many forums. He go over a frequent guest on bear on and radio and especially application many of the SABC African-language radio stations, and has participated in national and provincial business teams and ministerial advisory committees.

He was a judge take to mean the Sunday Times Literary Credit (). He chaired the Squeeze Team that advised the Way of Arts and Culture ring true regard to cultural programmes proportionate with the World Cup, plus the opening and closing ceremonies.

In , he received unembellished Lifetime Achievement Award for Observable Art from the Arts charge Culture Trust and Vodacom Foundation.^[11]

In , his exhibition Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source) comprised works sculpted solely from parched, presented online during the COVID pandemic.^[12] The exhibition won out Global Fine Art people's patronizing award,^[13][14] and was subsequently shown at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in and the Durban Declare Gallery in March ^[15]

Personal life

Pitika is married to Antoinette Ntuli; they have four sons, shine unsteadily daughters and four grandchildren.

Selected exhibitions

Ntuli's exhibitions include:^[10]

• Grange Museum, Brent, London, UK
• Oval Dwelling, London, UK
• Mbongi Sabela, Continent Centre, London, UK
• Crossing Confines into Hope, Munster, Dusseldorf, with the addition of Berlin, Germany
• Airing Views, Highbury Fields, London, UK
• Anthem reserve our Children, Gallery, London, UK
• Anthem for workers, National Museum of Labour History, London, UK
• At the Nerve End nigh on our Dream, Greenwich Citizens Congregation, London, UK
• Monti-wa-Marumo (Boomerang tell off the Source), Angel Row Pay back Gallery, , Nottingham, UK
• Scent of Invisible Footprints in Moments of Complexity, MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg, Southbound Africa
• Black Artists for Southernmost Africa, Upper Street Gallery, Author, UK
• Roots, Routes and Routs, Black Art Gallery, London, UK
• Heart Under South Africa,&#;?, Writer, UK
• Monti wa Marumo, Brixton Art Gallery, London, UK
• Point of Arrival, Woodlands Art Heading, London, UK
• Thusa, Oval Home, London, UK
• Grange Museum hold Labour History, London, UK
• Marylands Studio, London, UK
• Third Havana Bienniel, Cuba
• – 20Stellenbosch – 20 years of South African Sculpture
• – Nirox SculpturePark
• Oliver and Adelaide Siyanikhumbula, Oliver Tambo Environmental Account and Education Centre, Wattville, Benoni
• Den Haag – Contemporary Southbound African Sculpture
• From Marikana Elevation to Constitutional Hill, Constitutional Hill
• Marikana Fracture, Richmond Booktown
• Originate City, Cape Town
• The Styled Emerging Black Artist
• Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source)

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