Thank you for venturing into our Patron’s Programme, aimed at encouraging your desire to get to know an artist and their work whilst also supporting their professional endeavour.
The intention of the programme is to create a closer and more symbiotic relationship between the selected artist and you as a collector, which we hope will enrich your appreciation of the creative process an artist undergoes.
You are completing this form because you are interested in contributing to Malwande's studio rental in lieu of you receiving an artwork (of your choosing) at the end of the agreed period.
This form is dedicated to Malwande Ngcingi. Malwande's studio is located on the First Floor of August House, Studio 5. He has been at August House for just almost a 1 year.
Malwande was born in 1992, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. His formal arts education started in Saturday art classes at Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) in 2009. From there he completed a BFA at Tshwane University of Technology in 2016. Malwande has received a number of awards and has participated in many group exhibitions in both Johannesburg and Pretoria
Awards:
- Alumni for the African Social Enterprise Fund Visual Art Award In 2017
- One of the 12th finalists for “Our Community, Our Future Competition” held by Rainbow Media and Di Sarro under ARP- Art Residency Projects Award
- He appeared as a featured artist for the Emerging Painters show at the Turbine Art Fair in 2017
- He was a Thami Mnyele Fine Arts awards top 100 finalist in 2021
- His work had been featured in Backyard Pitch’s anthology book entitled “Speculative fiction and activism”