NJABULO HLOPHE

NJABULO HLOPHE

visual artist

visual artist

I consider myself a storyteller, as a visual artist and creative entrepreneur I feel it my sole responsibility to share the stories of the African continent and showcase our place in the global conversation regarding various issues surrounding black bodies and the responsibility of imagination within various spaces.





I aim to use my practice, not as a means to narrowly depict anything in particular, but rather a means to inspire further interrogation of certain themes surrounding the bantu experience. I am a really curious mind who also makes use of these paintings as a way of further exploring my own self and my position in the greater discourse surrounding art, art history and the role of African storytelling. 



I feel that my practice is important, because it places African voices squarely within the discourse of visual art and attempts to inspire conversation with African communities as opposed to the linear history of Africans having their stories subverted by the western gaze. My practice takes reference from the history of Visual culture and also aims to imagine the possible futures African storytelling. 


I consider myself a storyteller, as a visual artist and creative entrepreneur I feel it my sole responsibility to share the stories of the African continent and showcase our place in the global conversation regarding various issues surrounding black bodies and the responsibility of imagination within various spaces.





I aim to use my practice, not as a means to narrowly depict anything in particular, but rather a means to inspire further interrogation of certain themes surrounding the bantu experience. I am a really curious mind who also makes use of these paintings as a way of further exploring my own self and my position in the greater discourse surrounding art, art history and the role of African storytelling. 



I feel that my practice is important, because it places African voices squarely within the discourse of visual art and attempts to inspire conversation with African communities as opposed to the linear history of Africans having their stories subverted by the western gaze. My practice takes reference from the history of Visual culture and also aims to imagine the possible futures African storytelling.