EXHIBITION - UMBHIYOZO: Celebrating Pemba

GEORGE MILWA MNYALUZA PEMBA is one of South Africa’s great influential artists to have contributed to these foundations and it is our pleasure and honour to celebrate his art and his legacy in his birthplace, the City of Gqeberha, along with our community, who is sensitively depicted throughout his body of work.

The exhibition includes 26 original paintings on loan from the Nelson Mandela Art Museum, William Humphreys Art Gallery as well as Private Owners.

George Pemba led a humble life, a man of few words, driven by his passion and desire to paint the day to day lives and reality of his people both in rural and township settings. He once said, “I do not know if ever I will become a great artist, but an artist of my own nation I surely am to be”. We can all agree that he was not only an artist of his own nation but went on to become a great artist that is recognized and revered around the World.

UMBHIYOZO, represents a celebration of a man from humble beginnings who was driven by a discipline, commitment, passion, and a love of his craft which he pursued daily with utmost dedication from a young age and was able to reach the pinnacle of his career.

NOTE: Not open on Sundays.