Athobe Mlahlwa, a Rhodes University first year Arts student drew the below art piece and named it “MY CROWN”. He dedicates this art piece to all the black females who wear their natural hair proudly. He felt the need to do this art piece because of the recent Clicks and Tresseme advert that labelled black people’s hair as dry and damaged. ” By this art piece I wanted to show how beautiful and exquisite black people’s hair is regardless of its texture of shape” said Athobe.
An acrylic painting, size: 30cmX37cm photo credit: Athobe Mlahlwa
Hey everyone.
I am Zisanda Solwandle, a 20 year old who is a third year student doing Journalism and Media Studies in Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. This is an art blog hence the name Artistry.
This blog will be displaying some of the crafts, paintings of the Rhodes Arts students that I find mostly interesting and also the works of the artists here in Makhanda also known as Grahamstown
If you are someone who is interested in art be it paintings or hand crafted pieces like I am, you will surely enjoy reading and browsing through the blog. Hopefully you will find more interesting pieces that you would like to buy.
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