Thabang Lehobye
Thabang Lehobye is a visual artist paints in acrylic, illustrator and the head of design at FCB Africa. He
completed a three-year printmaking program in 2004 at the Artist Proof Studio
(APS), a community-based printmaking centre in Newtown. Lehobye thereafter graduated
with a Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg and studied Creative
Brand Communication at Vega, sponsored by William Kentridge. The same year he was
awarded a Loerie Gold Craft for his short animated film Inside the box. He
received a scholarship funded by Johnson and Johnson to attend The Bauen Youth
Leader Camp in Wyoming USA - a youth camp that looks at how the arts can
positively address social issues. Lehobye’s works explore Johannesburg inner city as
a subject. He also experiments with various stop-motion animation techniques using acrylic and
charcoal.
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