David Hlongwane

In this CKR Profile, we commissioned the late artist and art educator Ayesha Price to speak to fellow artist David Hlongwane about his practice and how it extends to his politics since he was a young boy growing up in Worcester in the Western Cape. Price’s interview style is deliberately conversational and includes the tactility of engaging in the Hlongwane’s most popular mediums of making such as drawing and sculpture while questioning him about his life and work.

The interview appears here sectioned according to his involvement in Youth Projects; to his escape at Robben Island during the knack of apartheid; his own archive as well as a current observation that preoccupies him of how contemporary artists of today do not entrench themselves in artist communities and networks and instead work in silos, something he considers an artistic malaise because of the commercialisation of art.