ABSTRACT ARTIST BREATHES LIFE INTO ART

MBABANE – Artistry is one of the most vivid ways to display life without uttering a word!
The above accession has been proven true by abstract artist Thulani Earnshaw during an exhibition which was formerly launched last Saturday and will run for close to a month.

Dubbed ‘Informal Abstraction, An Art Show by Earnshaw’, the exhibition is about the marriage between urban and rural physicality in the Eswatini landscape that confirms the signs of human habitation and the markings left by habitation.

When asked about the choice of his art, Earnshaw said he wanted to recycle what was not considered cosmopolitan by the society and make it represent informal settlements.

“In my work, I am trying to portray two social classes which are the financially stable and the poverty-stricken through their settlements. I am vividly portraying how society really looks like,” he said.

One of the outstanding works for the day was the ‘Documentary’, which has VCR tapes and other land marking tapes with a novel by Zora Neal Hurston.
When asked about the symbolism of the novel, he said the story behind it was the motivation that drove him to use it.

“The woman in the novel defied all odds in her time by travelling across America while collecting travelling stories,” he said.

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