Greatjoy Ndlovu

GreatJoy Ndlovu is a full-time visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He went on to study Art at Cyrene Mission in the Southern part of Matabeleland region in Zimbabwe. He has been enjoying the summits of art world prominence within South Africa and an immense recognition of his world class talent across.continents , exhibiting in local and international art fairs and galleries . Greatjoy retains an ever – growing number of faithful collectors worldwide . His current body of work renders more of its focus on the portrayal of masculinity, identity and the abstract representation of the nature of thought conceptions, particularly in light of mindset generation as expressed in his 2019 series “Conversations of a Man”. His principal theme circumnavigates around merging motion and emotion to arouse mental images wrapped in synchrony to his style of art.

GreatJoy’s style notably kisses expressionistic and representationalistic ideas with figurative drawings, while retaining an enthralling tinge of abstraction that frequently lurks in his works. Included also in his works are mind piercing forms of portraiture which seek to decipher internal truths and meanings with such lig...

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
“The Path to Greatjoy “ April 2018
Mmarthouse ,Graighall
Johannesburg South Africa

“ Somewhere in South Africa “ October 2018
Randburg ,Johannesburg
South Africa

“Conversations of a Man “ April 2019 Mmarthouse, Graighall
Johannesburg, South Africa

Group exhibitions
2016
Art it is Gallery, Parkwood
Johannesburg
South Africa

2016
Living Artist Emporium
Turbine Hall
Johannesburg,South Africa

2016
“Expressions of Johannesburg “
Henry George Gallery
Parkhurst ,Johannesburg
South Africa

2016
“Dark Passages ,Lighted Rooms “
MAP Contemporary
Melville ,Johannesburg
South Africa

2017
“Winter Exhibition “
Henry George Gallery
Parkhurst ,Johannesburg
South Africa


2017
“African Art Group exhibition”
ODA Gallery ,Franschhoek
Western Cape ,South Africa

2017
“Making Headlines”
MAP Contemporary
Melville ,Johannesburg
South Africa

2018
“Talking to Deaf Ears “
ABSA Art Gallery
Johannesburg
South Africa

2019
“Harmony”
Julie Miller Investment Institute
Midrand
South Africa


2019
“Residency two man exhibition “
With Luc Detot from France ,
Entabeni Farm ,Knysna
Western Cape


Publications

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