About Sibisi, Dumisani

Dumisani Sibisi was born in Soweto, Johannesburg in 1962 and is of the Zulu Tribe. He was educated in Soweto at Emaweni Lower Primary (1969 - 1972), Enkanyezini Higher Primary (1973 - 1975) and received his secondary education at Jabulani Technical High (1977 - 1083). He continues to live and work in Soweto . He was taught by sculptor Sydney Kumalo, as well as by Ezrom Legae. Exhibiting since the age of 15, Sibisi has included his work in shows in Australia, Portugal, Canada and the United States. Dumisani Sibisi is an artist shaped by the hopeful atmosphere following the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa. His collages and three-dimensional images are chiefly of the townships, which Sibisi paints only to record a particular reality of this particular time.

Dumisani Sibisi was born in Soweto, Johannesburg in 1962 and is of the Zulu Tribe. He was educated in Soweto at Emaweni Lower Primary (1969 - 1972), Enkanyezini Higher Primary (1973 - 1975) and received his secondary education at Jabulani Technical High (1977 - 1983). He continues to live and work in Soweto . He was taught by sculptor Sydney Khumalo, as well as by Ezrom Legae. Exhibiting since the age of 15, Sibisi has included his work in shows in Australia, Portugal, Canada and the United States. Dumisani Sibisi is an artist shaped by the hopeful atmosphere following the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa. His collages and three-dimensional images are chiefly of the townships, which Sibisi paints to record a particular reality of that particular time. He was one of the five South African artists whose paintings were used as massive billboards at 50 locations around South Africa in the outdoor marketing campaign of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003. Their paintings depicted typical South African scenes with an added twist to welcome teams from the 14 competing nations to the 2003 Cricket World Cup. To welcome the English team Dumisani Sibisi's beautiful township scene showed a minibus taxi with a difference: an addition to the roof made it a "local style" double-decker London bus. The newspaper work in the background was all cricket related.