Scene from a Soweto Street

A painting titled, Scenes from a Soweto Street by the South African artist Kagiso Patrick Mautloa (b.1952). The work is nearly a still life of objects, but in a landscape. The artist paints the discarded carcass of an animal as well as the discarded carcass of an old car in the same still life. Short biography: Kagiso Patrick (Pat) Mautloa was born in Ventersdorp (former Western Transvaal) on the 24 September 1952 in South Africa. His family moved to Soweto in 1954. He commenced his art studies while still in highschool at the Jubilee Art School in 1969 and in 1970 went onto the Mofolo Park Arts Centre. He completed his schooling in 1972 and continued at Mofolo until 1975. In 1978, he relocated to the Rorke’s Drift Art School in Natal to complete his studies with the OK Bazaars Bursary. In 1980 he began working for the OK Bazaars as a junior graphic artist and during this time also taught art part-time at the Mofolo Arts Centre and at FUBA. In 1981 Mautloa joined the SABC as a graphic designer. Mautloa is a committee member of the Thupelo Art Project at the National Museum and Art Gallery in Gaborone, Botswana and has participated in their yearly workshops. His work has been exhibited at several major exhibitions such as the UFH Annual Exhibitions, the UZ African Art Festival Exhibitions, the Goodman Gallery, the Grassroots Gallery in Westville (Natal), the Johannesburg Art Foundation and for the Cassirer Fine Art Johannesburg group. He currently lives in Alexandra in Johannesburg, and produces commercial graphic design as well as his own art work. He is married to another well-known South African artist, Bongi Dhlomo.