Churchill Madikida

Madikida is the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2006…

There is nothing commonplace about 31-year-old Churchill Madikida, an artist whose professional biography requires some digression into his private life. Indeed, the soft-spoken manner and modest demeanour of the bespectacled young artist belie an immense biography…

In my art I try to focus more on histories, such as my history as an individual and as part of groups, such as my Xhosa ethnic identity, South African nationality, and of my global identity. In the past, I have been using different mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking in trying to address my themes (recently I have also incorporated performance pieces)…

Coffins, Curtains, Candles

TThe stark honesty with which he investigates personal experience and th uncompromising directness with which he expresses his ideas are intentionall disruptive of any complacency in the viewer…