Durant Sihlali


Durant Sihlali was a South African artist. He was born in Germiston, was Head of Fine Arts at the Federated Union of Black Artists from 1983 till 2004 and exhibited in Nuremberg, Athens, and Palermo.

Biography

He studied art at the Moroko Chiawelo Centre from 1950 to 1953. From 1953 to 1958 he studied under Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre.

Work

His work is modernist and realist and his first medium was watercolours. He later turned to sculpture using metal from car wrecks. He has exhibited in Trees Collection Gallery in Beverly Hills. According to Sihlali's wife Anna, he always wanted to create a museum of his work.