SNS CATALOGUE 2023 DIGITAL-compressed - Book - Page 15
OVERALL WINNER
OVERALL WINNER
Winner
NOSIVIWE
MATIKINCA
GQEBERHA
By immortalising these shoes through the ceramic
slip-casting method, they have been given a new
purpose. This process also enables the artist to
capture the essence of the used shoes, including
every mark, scratch and hole. As ceramic sculptures,
the shoes have been symbolically restored, but are
also very fragile and breakable. This fragility is a
metaphor for the precarity of the public schooling
system of our country, where black South African
learners are subjected to sub-standard education.
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Ndiziphiwe – They were given to me, is a ceramic
installation about underprivileged learners who wear
school shoes that are handed down to them by their
older siblings or family members.
These hand-me-downs are
special as they embody the
journeys walked by their
respective owners. In poorer
communities throughout the
country, an old pair of shoes
is not thrown away when it
is still wearable, it is seen
as precious.
Biography
Nosiviwe Beauty Matikinca was born in the
City of Cape Town and grew up in Hermanus.
During her educational stint in Cape Town,
she attended Cedar High School of the Arts
and took extra art classes at the Peter Clarke
Art Centre. After moving back to Hermanus,
she continued her art training through
after-school art classes at the Enlighten
Education Trust with Zimbabwean artist
Ashleigh Temple-Camp. Presently, Matikinca
is a third-year student completing a Bachelor
of Visual Arts degree at Nelson Mandela
University in Gqeberha.
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