About

Cape Town-based artist, painter and printmaker, Aviwe Plaatjie, has been drawn to the arts since childhood. His clear talent as a child was nurtured by his mother and her employer who took him to part-time art classes. In 2010, Aviwe joined Good Hope Arts Studios as a self-taught painter and later attended a mentorship programme at VANSA for three months where he was introduced to linocut printmaking.

An avid commentator on his community through his identity-based paintings, his characters, friends, neighbours and family are staged onto an often aspirational and imaginary background. …