Bonnie Ntshalintshali

Bonnie Ntshalinthshali

Bonnie Ntshalintshali (13 November 1967 – 3 November 1999) was a South African ceramicist and sculptor.

Early life

Bonnie Mayvee Ntshalintshali was born on a farm in the Winterton district of KwaZulu-Natal in 1967.[1] As a girl she survived polio and was considered unsuited to heavy physical farmwork, so she was apprenticed to learn ceramics with Fée Halsted-Berning at Ardmore Ceramics.[2] She had some further training at the University of Natal in 1990.[3]

Career

At Ardmore, Bonnie Ntshalintshali was at first an apprentice, but in time she and Halsted ran the studio more as partners. In 1988 Ntshalintshali won the Corobrik National Ceramics Award. She and Halsted were jointly named winners of a Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1990. In 1991, she was invited to design fabric prints based on her ceramics for a festival in Grahamstown. Her ceramics were featured at the Seville Expo in 1992, at the Venice Biennale in 1993, and at the South African Bienniale in 1995. Ntashalintashali's designs often drew from Zulu folk culture or Biblical motifs.[4] Her sister-in-law Beauty Ntshalintshali, her half-brother Vuzi Ntshalintshali, and another relative, Somandla Ntshalintshali, all joined her at Ardmore and also learned the shop's distinctive style.[5][6]

Death and legacy

Bonnie Ntshalintshali died in 1999, from illness related to HIV/AIDS. She was 32 years old. In her memory, the Bonnie Ntshalintshali Museum was founded in 2003, the first museum in South Africa named for a black women artist.[7] A picture book biography for young readers, Bonnie Ntshalintshali: A New Way with Paint and Clay was published in 2006.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Bonie Ntshalintshali, SA artist, is born" South African History Online.
  2. ↑ "About Ardmore", Ardmore Ceramics.
  3. ↑ "Artist: Bonnie Ntshalintshali", Ardmore Ceramics.
  4. ↑ Gilbert Lewthwaite, "Reshaping S. Africa in Clay" Baltimore Sun (22 January 1999).
  5. ↑ "Artist: Beauty Ntshalintshali", Ardmore Ceramics.
  6. ↑ "Artist: Vuzi Ntshalintshali", Ardmore Ceramics.
  7. ↑ Leila Dee Dougan, "Bonnie Ntshalintshali: Rising Above the Chaos, 1967-1999" The Journalist.
  8. ↑ Donvé Lee, Bonnie Ntshalintshali: A New Way with Paint and Clay (Awareness Publishing 2006).
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