charcoal, acrylic, pastel and watercolour on paper

Artwork date: 2021
Signature details: signed and dated in ink along bottom left edge

76.5 x 58 cm; framed size: 90.5 x 72.5 x 3.5 cm

Provenance:

Private collection, George.

COLLECTOR'S NOTE

• Nelson Makamo has been showcasing his work both locally and internationally since 2003, with a recent exhibition at Makasiini Contemporary in Turku Finland in April/May of this year, marking his third solo exhibition at this contemporary international gallery since 2021.
• Other recent international solo exhibitions include a showcase that featured 44 works – the largest collection of the artist’s works to be exhibited – titled BLUE in Los Angeles in 2022, and Nelson Makamo at Loo & Lou Gallery, George V in Paris in 2019, amongst others.
• Notable international group exhibitions include the Summer 2023 group exhibition at Everard Read/ CIRCA, London (2023), Emancipated Imaginaries curated by international curator Armelle Dakouo as part of AKAA & Manifesta collaboration in Lyon, France (2021); Say it Loud curated by art curator, advisor, gallerist and artist manager, Destinee Ross-Sutton, at Christie's in New York, USA (2020) and No Commission at Dean Collection Kraftwerk in Rummelsburg, Germany in 2017.
• His work has featured in international art fairs including ARCOLisboa in Lisbon (2021), 1:54 Fair in London (2018;2015), AKAA Fair in Paris (2020) and the African Art Fair in New York (2017).
• In 2018 he received the Award for Drawing from the global contemporary art competition Rise Art Prize in London, United Kingdom.
• The artist was the recipient of the Johnson & Johnson international bursary in 2003, the same year that he joined Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg.
• A portrait by Makamo was featured in Time Magazine’s issue; The Art of Optimism: 34 People Changing How we See the World (Feb 2018/2019) edited by prestigious filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
• International celebrity names who have Nelson Makamo works in their art collections, include Oprah Winfrey, Giorgio Armani, Annie Lennox and the beloved South African DJ, record producer and songwriter Black Coffee (Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo).
• In 2017 Nelson Makamo, Black Coffee and renowned fashion designer Laduma Ngxokolo started the Fashion, Art and Music (FAM) Academy, based in Johannesburg, for talented youth in South Africa.

COLLECTIONS:

The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Giorgio Armani art collection; Annie Lennox art collection; Hanzehof Zutphense Kunst Collectis; DJ Black Coffee art collection; Swizz Beatz art collection; Oprah Winfrey art collection, Ava Duvernay; Imago Mundi Collection, Treviso, Italy and the University of South Africa Art Collection, Pretoria.