Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa

rdf:langString Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa

rdf:langString Bongiwe or Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa (born 1956) is a Zulu South African printmaker, arts administrator and activist. She was born in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, and educated at St Chad's School in Ladysmith and Inanda Seminary School. She furthered her studies at Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre studying printmaking and gained a diploma in fine arts. She worked at the in Durban (1980-1983), then at the Grassroots Gallery in the same city, before moving to Johannesburg where she curated exhibitions at the FUBA Gallery and the Goodman Gallery. She was a founder and project co-ordinator of the Alexandra Art Centre in Johannesburg. She was Outreach and Development Project Coordinator of the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale, which was called Africus, and was the administrator of the 1997 event, titled Trade Routes: History and Geography. She has said that the Soweto uprising of 1976, when she was aged 20, politicised her, and her prints have been described as "always political, documenting such historical events as the 1976 Soweto uprising as well as less overtly political activities such as women working". Her work has appeared in Staffrider magazine. She is married to visual artist Kagiso Mautloa.