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In 2002, Gabisile Nkosi (1974-2008), a graduate of the Durban University of Technology, joined Caversham as the first (training) programme manager and community co-ordinator, to develop programmes in local communities.

Margaret von Klemperer’s Tribute to Gabisile Nkosi, 04 Jun 2008, in the Witness, noted ‘In 1996, in her early 20s, Nkosi attended art lessons at the African Art Centre in Durban, a venue where she would later exhibit her work, most recently last year in an exhibition entitled Ukwelapha (healing). Centre director Anthea Martin writes: “I met her in 2001 at an outreach programme called the Velobala Group that the African Art Centre runs. She taught the classes in 2001. She had exhibited twice at the African Art Centre and her last exhibition was entitled Ukwelapha: Healing, as she was passionately interested in how art could be used as therapy, especially for women who had been abused and damaged through domestic violence.”

In her own words: ‘Through the support of my metaphorical sisters, I found joy and strength, instead of breaking under the pain. I decided to confront it as a challenge for a brighter future, for all children have the right to a happy mother no matter how much heavy baggage may weigh’. She wanted to use her talents to change lives; ‘to heal, inform and educate, emancipating the innate potential and unique capacity of all human beings’.”

Interviewed in 2006 in The Witness as the subject of a Life Story article, Nkosi spoke about working at the Caversham Centre, where the garden is an old graveyard. ‘Working here makes you realise that tomorrow you will be one of the grave's and it isn’t a frightening thought. It makes you think about what you would like to leave as a legacy, about your contribution to the world while you are still alive.’
Taken from http://www.witness.co.za/?showcontent&global[_id]=8492

Event Date 14/2/2014
Author: Rachel Hand

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Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained as part of a larger group of prints 2013.221- 263 from Caversham Press. The prints arrived at MAA in September 2013.
The Caversham Press, P.O. Box 87, Balgowan 3275, South Africa / +27 (0)33 004 0027 / malcolm@caversham.org.za.

The Caversham Press was founded in 1985 in the Caversham Valley of KwaZulu-Natal to afford South African artists access to a professional collaborative printmaking studio for the production of traditional limited edition prints. The Press was the first comprehensive facility of its kind in Southern Africa and has become highly regarded not only for the range of processes it offers and the expertise of founder and print-master, Malcolm Christian, but also for its reputation as an accessible and collaborative art centre

Event Date 14/2/2014
Author: maa

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Screen-print by Gabisile Nkosi, titled, 'Baggage I (Nge Sonto Ekuseni)', 2001. Edition 15/30.
Event Date 14/2/2014
Author: maa