Belonging (2020)
Glass beads on mono fish line strings
on walnut solid wood frame
120 x 75 cm
Nini Nanini (2021)
Glass beads on mono fish line strings on walnut solid wood frame
100 X 75 cm
Iqabunga Elisha (2021)
Glass beads on mono fish line strings on walnut solid wood frame
120 X 95 cm
Girl with a Kite (2020)
Glass beads on mono fish line strings on walnut solid wood frame
107 X 75 cm
Sobabile (2021)
Glass beads on mono fish line strings on walnut solid wood frame
75 X 65 cm
Uthando (2020)
Perles de verre sur cordon de mono-fil de pêche, sur cadre en bois massif de noyer
250 x 150 cm
Focus on the glass beads
Morgan Mahape is a self-taught artist born in 1983 in Umlazi,
Durban, South Africa.
Morgan Mahape's artworks are inspired by nature where vegetation is a symbol of life and development.
"I work with glass beads on strings. Those are fishline strings. First, I cut out a piece of wood and use nails to hang the strings and then I put the beads one by one. Every string is independent. If you put all the strings together, you get a full picture because the technique itself is a concept of unity. Each bead represents an individual and then the beads on the strings represent a group of people. [...]"
"I really love that idea of love, the concept of love. It goes along with the idea of my beadwork and how I do it."
Morgan Mahape
BAD+, Bordeaux 2022
BAD+, Bordeaux 2022
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022
Musée Bargoin, LOVE etc, 2019
GROUP SHOWS
2022 :
2020 : Love etc, Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand - Galerie Carole Kvasnevski
2019 :
2018 :
2016 : Art in the park fair. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2012 : PPC young sculpture finalist (KZNSA gallery). Durban, South Africa
2011 : COP17 art exhibition (gallery 405) Durban, South Africa