Hezekiel Ntuli
Nguni cattle and Zulu men and women. These small figures were well-known in the Eshowe area for some 40 years prior to Ntuli’s death and were collected by local residents, tourists and notable personalities in South Africa’s colonial administration. His remarkable talents had been noticed when he was only seventeen by Dr John Holloway of the Native Economic Commission in Natal. Holloway was of the opinion that Ntuli should not receive any formal art training, for fear that it would destroy his ‘uncanny instinct for putting life into his models’. Read More…
