LIGHTHOUSE ‘…LET THERE BE LIGHT…’

PROFILE

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT LIGHTHOUSE is a use of recycled materials to create and recreate house decorative lights, like:

•Side lamps

•Beside lamps

•Table lamps and etc

Lighthouse is a brain child of Zinhle Nkosi, a female artist from Kliptown in Soweto; upon realizing the opportunity of creating lights from waste after designing her 1st bedside lights made out of a paint tin.

The use of unconventional materials, unexpected shapes and designs all contributes in the way how people decorates their individuals and intimate spaces to make them more individualistic, artistic and unique.

LIGHTHOSE

‘…let there be light…’

1st side lamp, Zinhle made out of a 5litre paint tin.

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EXHIBITION OF 50 LIGHTS FROM WASTE

2015@Becomo Art Centre

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…lights on waste…

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Marikana Masach

Marikana …drops of Marikana

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Maboneng

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Lighthouse

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Dinning Pink

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Work in progress

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_Artist Profile

Zinhle Nkosi was born on the 16th of May in Kliptown, Soweto. Where she studied art and later on ran workshops under different art centres (like Becomo Art Centre in

Kliptown) with different art groups.

She is a multi-talented artist who expresses all her life’s opinion through her works of art; she is a visual artist, a crafter, a performer and a photographer.

She exhibited her different works, in different places with different artists, including her last solo exhibition titled Lighthouse, exhibited in 2015 May.

She believes in learning everyday. As its been said ‘Until you are at the depth of

the bowl, that’s when you can say you’ve eaten'. Her last course on ceramics and pottery in 2015 taught by the great Madoda Fani had

challenged her in sharing her skills with the younger artists from Tsakane, Ekurhuleni.

Currently her focus is on: sharing with the children of Tsakane her visual art skills (photography and ceramics), and the growth of her Lighthouse company.

Zinhle Nkosi

Founder and curator of Lighthouse Project lighthouse.zinhle@gmail.com

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