Lerato Motau

Lerato Motau lives on Vilakazi Street in Soweto, the historical significance of which has inspired her and features in some of her work.

Motau has had two solo exhibitions and her work has featured in a number of group exhibitions. Internationally, she was represented in exhibitions that showed in Beijing, China, Australia, Canada, India, London, Switzerland Austria and Finland.

Despite a major learning barrier of dyslexia, Motau has obtained a Fine Arts and Teaching - Diploma from the Johannesburg Art Foundation in 1998. In 2004 she received an - NQ4 Certificate in Craft Enterprise from the Craft Council. In 2005, she qualified with an NQF4 Certificate in Basic Embroidery and also attended a handmade feltmaking workshop in the same year.

Motau was the resident artist at the Greatmore Studios in Cape Town from September to November 2007. Her work is features in a number of corporate collections including; Nando’s UK, Absa, Pikit-Up, SA Breweries and Equity Africa in Jhb, First National Bank (FNB) as well as DBSA Deotswana in Botswana.

Public Commissions include an embroidered public artwork for the Vaal Campus of the North-West University, a 17m Hand Embroidery at the Leonardo Hotel in Sandton, a BRT Station in Maraisburg, ...

2005 Handmade Felt Workshop (Bus Factory, Newtown)
2004-2005 Basic Embroidery - NQ4 Certificate (Artist Proof Studio, Newtown)
2003-2004 Craft Enterprise - NQ4 Certificate (Bus Factory, Newtown)
1995-1998 Fine Arts and Teaching - Diploma (Johannesburg Art Foundation)

2023
Grace - Group Show, AITY Galleries, Cape Town
Just Art & Wine Exhibition, Orlando West, Soweto
Handmade Contemporary Fair, Melrose Arch
TACS Art Weekend Exhibition, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
Art Meets Design - Femme voices, shapes and forms: Nomadic Art Gallery
Open Art Fair - Victoria Yards
AmexZA Graphic Arts Challenge - Keyes Art Mile, Rosebank
Group Exhibition (Ibthiwe Aphuke/Beaten, not broken) - Rossouw Modern, Cape Town
Portraits Series - AITY Galleries, Franschhoek

2022
Ten Thousand Women (2nd Solo) - AITY Galleries, Franschhoek
Fusion Art Fashion 2022 - Cradle Boutique Hotel
Summer Salon - AITY Galleries, Franschhoek
Print Portfolio Exchange Exhibition, the Art Room, Parkhurst, and Springs Art Gallery.
Panelist on: Africa Dyslexic United Adults, Democratic Republic of Congo
Opening, Prince Vincent Building, KKNK, Outshoorn, Western Cape
Game Changing Women, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
The threat of Dissent, Walter Wherehouse, Phoenix, Australia

2021
The threads that bind us, Viewing room at St Lorient Gallery, Pretoria
Smile Artists Africa Auction, Kayalami Race Track, Johannebsurg.
Print Portfolio Exchange Exhibition, Benrose studios with The Arts Company Soweto.
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