Londiwe Mtshali

Londiwe Mtshali (b. 1994) is a visual artist, writer and scholar. She is interested in Black women’s homeownership, memory, theories of personal identities, traditional practices, and politics of language. Mtshali works across the disciplines of installation, printmaking, video, photography, textile and text. She completed a NDip (Fine Art) at the Durban University of Technology and her BA (Visual Art) at the University of the Witwatersrand with distinction and is completing her MA(Visual Art) at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Notable exhibitions and projects include “Now Now”; (2023) Gallery 114 (USA), “The Nonreprentational” (2020) Stevenson Gallery, “Creativate” (2019) National Art Festival and Occupying The Gallery (2023) SMAC Gallery. Mtshali has presented papers at conferences including African Feminisms (Afems), 35th Annual South Africa Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) and Performance Studies International (PSi) Conference. She has published two essays titled: “Reimaging Home” (2022) and “The Love of Writing or Writing as Love/r: Collaborative Writing as Shared Visual Art Studio Practice”; (co-authored) on Creative Knowledge Resources ‘bopa writers’ forum.