Mega Artists Magazine Issue 7 | Page 31

ist, ural Activ lt u C , t is t Ar n fighter. Liberatio 10 DECEMBER 194814 JUNE 1985 Mega Artists Magazine takes time to remember revolutionary artists. Artists who by their work, a movement or style of thinking and acting has started. A synopsis of their background is compiled, to bring light to our readers, about this Mega Artist. Untitled On this month’s issue we shed light on a peculiar style of art, called Graphic Art by struggle veteran Thami Mnyele, who was born on 10 December 1948 – in the poor and over-crowded township of Alexandra, in Johannesburg. His art skills emerged in his teenage years, when he was sent to boarding school in a village northwest of Pretoria when he was 8 years; it’s where he learned to draw. In the late 1960's and 70's, in Alexandra township, Mnyele became involved with poets and activists inspired by the Black Consciousness Movement of Steve Biko, to fight for equality and an end to apartheid injustices. He spent 18 months studying at the Swedish Lutheran art center, Rorke’s Poster Design: for The Culture and Resistence Conference in Botswana 1982 Drift in natal. In 1973 he worked briefly as a graphic artist in Johannesburg, at J.Walter Thompson Advertising agency and then as a graphic artist for the print-shop run by South African Council of Churches for Higher Education(SACHED). For more on this Mega Artist, please do read more at COURTESY: www.wikipedia.org/Thami_Mnyele www.megaartists.co.za Mar-Apr 2016 Page 30