The annual TMFAA is a contemporary fine arts competition which, in its 26th year, still seeks to inspire the passion that the late acclaimed resistance artist Thami Mnyele had for art.
Mnyele once said: “Our art must be a process – a living, growing thing to which people can relate, identify with, be part of, understand; not a mysterious world a universe apart from them.”
Hence the competition caters for artists of all ages, producing works in various media.
The dates for the 2013 submission of art works are August 20, 21 and 22.
Works may be delivered to the Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre, Mooifontein Road, in Kempton Park, between 9am and 7pm.
Satellite entry points will be available at the Boksburg Library on August 21, from 9am to 4pm; the Springs Art Gallery on August 20 and 21, from 9am to 4pm and at the Katlehong Art Centre on August 20, from 9am to 4pm.
The entry fee is R50 per artwork and all artworks must be ready and suitable for exhibition.
The judges will select an exhibition of the best works, which must have been completed within the 12 months prior to the competition entry dates.
“The TMFAA serves as a platform where artists are encouraged to transcend limitations, reconfigure and manipulate contemporary cultural social and political signs.
“Artists are encouraged to employ various media to express metaphors, and their aesthetic sensibility to reflect the world we live in,” said Ekurhuleni spokesperson Sam Modiba.
The adjudicators for the 2013 Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards competition are Robyn Nesbitt, Lwazi Njafa, Bongi Mautloa Dlhomo, Reshma Chibba and Pieter Swanepoel.
The opening function of the exhibition and the prizegiving ceremony will take place on September 21, 2013, when the following prizes will be awarded:
* First prize R40 000
* Ekurhuleni prize R30 000
* Multi & New Media Merit Award R7 500
* Painting Merit Award R7 500
* Art on Paper Merit Award R7 500
* Sculpture Merit Award R7 500
For more information, contact the Visual Arts Curator on 011 391 4006/7, 011 391 6273,or 011 9994474,or email to idiso.Makhetha@ekurhuleni.gov.za or Thabo.Sekoaila@ekurhuleni.gov.za.
The ehibition will run from September 22 to October 13.
