Simphiwe Ndzube
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'Imagining a world with no them and us': Simphiwe Ndzube interview by Thembinkosi Goniwe

ArtThrob | iNtwasahlobo, February 2025

'Rather than pursuing certainty or concerning himself with the construction of historically accurate worlds, the artist embraces mythology and, more recently, the magical-real as a way of creating the worlds in his work' writes David Mann on the occasion of iNtwasahlobo

Business Day, January 2021

'The people depicted by Ndzube may be maimed or disfigured; they may be therianthropes, or carnivalesque totems, and indeed there is something mysterious and magical about them. But, above all, they are never less than fully human' writes Chris Thurman on the occasion of The Fantastic Ride to Gwadana

On Art And Aesthetics, August 2020

Artist Profile - '"The Mine Moon": Simphiwe Ndzube’s Imaginative Universe Influenced By Post-Apartheid Experience'

Mail & Guardian, February 2019

'Fictive world is not escapist': Review of Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas by Athi Mongelezi Joja

Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas, 2019

Bongani Kona introduces Simphiwe Ndzube's Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas with a harrowing work of fiction

9 More Weeks, August 2018

'Being and becoming': 'I’m slowly building a cosmology of content to explore myths, theosophy, memory and other related mysticisms. But it has to be not too far removed from people’s experience – I need to keep that in mind as I go' says Simphiwe Ndzube in conversation with Sinazo Chiya

 

Mousse Magazine, March 2018

'Costume drama': 'These are TS Eliot’s Hollow Men whispering meaningless winds like dried grass. These are drop-outs from a Samuel Beckett story, sick of waiting at the crossroads or crawling through the mud.' Andrew Berardini on the works of Simphiwe Ndzube

Art and Cake, August 2017

LA Studio Visit: 'Simphiwe Ndzube, A Journey Through the Theater of the Absurd' by Gary Brewer

Zoo Magazine, January-March 2017

'Body, politics and human journey': Simphiwe Ndzube interviewed by Marta Gnyp

ArtThrob, November 2016

'Perched at the edge of Precarity': Nkule Mabaso reviews Simphiwe Ndzube's solo exhibition Becoming at Whatiftheworld

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