THAMI MNYELE FINE ARTS AWARDS
ABOUT THAMI MNYELE FINE ARTS AWARDS
The Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards (TMFAA) is a contemporary fine arts competition hosted and sponsored by the CoE under the auspices of the Arts, Culture and Heritage (ACH) Directorate of the Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture (SRAC) Department. The competition and awards seeks to inspire the passion that the late South African acclaimed resistance artist and activist Thamsanqa ‘Thami’ Mnyele had for art.
THE ADJUDICATION FOR 2024 ARE:
Thabang Lehobye - 2021 First Prize Winner
Carol Kuhn - Art Lecturer (TUT)
Dr Bongani Mkhonza - Curator (UNISA Art Gallery)
Senzeni Maraisela - Independent Contemporary Artist and Curator
Aysha Waja - Independent Curator & Artist Mentor
THE FOLLOWING PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED
- First Prize : R 100 000.00
- Ekurhuleni Prize : R 60 000.00 and solo exhibition at SAG
- Honourable Mention : R15 000.00
- R10 000.00 Prize Money and August House Emerging Residency Artist Award (3-Months Artist Residency Programme)
- Painting : R30 000.00
- Sculpture : R30 000.00
- Multimedia : R30 000.00
- Works on Paper : R30 000.00
Merit Awards (Equal to a total of: R120 000.00)
ONLINE ENTRY AND SUBMISSION INTO THE COMPETITION
This competition endeavors to showcase the best of expressions of amateur and professional artists from South African who is over the age of 18 years old. The competition encourages submissions of artistic contemporary expressions in following media:
Paintings, Textile pieces, Sculptures and reliefs
Drawings (ink works, pastels, gouaches and watercolors).
Decorative art pieces, collages, ceramics
Digital art and photographs
Illustrations and graphical posters