Pitika ntuli biography of donald
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1984
His work is a labyrinth of paradoxes, similes, visual and verbal puns. 1989
Pitika’s grasp of the power of language is further displayed in his constant cross fertilisation of different disciplines and media. Yet in this rich diversity of the creative means of production there is a rigorous economy where less equals more!
The metal tube frames of builder’s wheelbarrows are transformed into dancing figures with a few twists and welds.
1987
The role that political exiles have played in bringing the liberation struggle to the attention of the world is well documented. Pitika relished the challenge of negotiating these emerging debates and interpreting the implications of this shifting and unstable field of critical theory for both students and colleagues alike. Apples and Snakes a performance poetry organisation promoted the performance of African poetry at a number of venues around London.
The steel will-power and determination of our people – what was discarded is not only retrieved but resurrected and given a new lease of life. I can now, with hindsight, understand it as post war scarcity. W. M. Makgoba. The degree to which many exiles have actively engaged with the political and cultural life of the host country is far less visible.
But after a closer look a discarded branch from a blighted Dutch elm carved with faces, limbs and chains offers its own complex tensions: African faces in English wood, humanity and nature, culture and ecology.
In three-dimensional work colour is an important element. I see a journey here, a movement back to the source, an engagement with that source and its interrogation.
Education
He holds an Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in New York and an Master of Arts in Comparative Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology.
Career
While in exile in the United Kingdom he taught at Camberwell College of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the London College of Printing, Middlesex University and the University of East London.
Instead we ran away to exile which is another story.
Side by side with this seedier part of our location were religious zealots who prophesied doom. There had been a few deaths in it, attributed to the monster’s demand for sacrifice.