Aqhoshile Gomeni

Born in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa and raised by a single mother with three other siblings. Mother was a singer at her early years, so music has been part of his life too and would be comfort and inspiration for him to pursue his own arts.
His art styles comes from trials and errors of him trying to improve his art style as a self-taught artist.

Realized the skill during COVID-19 times after losing his mother, the only comfort to his heavy heart was sketching, something he had been an interest of his for the most times of his life he decided to take things further, with attempts to drop out off school while doing his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Nelson Mandela. He later visited his philosophy notes, and stumbled upon Immanuel Kant's work, "Categorical imperative" which is a universal ethical principle stating that one should always respect the humanity in others, and that one should only act in accordance with rules that could hold for everyone. That alone answered the questions to his doubts and wanted to create without being judged or judging the next artist, he knew he had gained his freedom as an artist and thus he won't have methods and outlook other exiting works to be imposed on his own.


As a...

Self-Taught

EQUILIBRIUM Exhibition
2024, Nov. 9