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Artist Zandile Tshabalala revisits the representation of Black women throughout art history
Currently finishing up her degree in fine art, the Johannesburg-based painter is already debuting her first solo show at Accra’s ADA Contemporary Art Gallery.
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The rising artist Zandile Tshabalala has always been in touch with her creative side. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, she remembers a childhood drawing a lot of paper dolls which led her to want to be a fashion designer. When she was introduced to fine art as a teenager, that’s when Zandile began to take the arts really seriously. A career in the arts was frowned upon in her family, so the decision was also “a way for me to rebel,” she tells It’s Nice That, though with time, her family came to support her decision after seeing her evident passion.