Lindani Nyandeni is a painter whose recent work is a breakthrough in scale and content. Nyandeni draws upon his own history as a young man who grew up without a mother. His current bold portraits are a manifestation of a recent personal epiphany that has inspired him to share his new awakening in an exhibition titled uBonakele.
Born in Umlazi in 1992, Nyandeni lives and works in Durban. He studied Visual Art at the BAT Centre in 2014 and was selected to study Textile Printing at the ELC Art and Craft Centre in Rorke’s Drift, Northern KZN in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 he enrolled in the Velobala Saturday art classes hosted by the African Art Centre at the Durban University of Technology.
Nyandeni has participated in numerous art workshops and over twenty group exhibitions, the most recent being CAETAC (Soweto Hall, Johannesburg, 2018) and Father Footstep (African Art Centre, Durban, 2018).
In 2016 he took part in the Gerlesborg Swedish Exchange Programme and his work in a number of collections in South Africa and abroad.
Over the years Nyandeni has received mentorship from the professional artists, Wonder Buhle Mbambo and Sthenjwa Luthuli.
In 2018 and 2019 Nyandeni collaborated with Professor Zanele Muholi on their iKhono LaseNatali Project and was a participating artist in the touring exhibition.
