Yolanda Mazwana Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1996 -

Yolanda Mazwana’s work addresses themes around mental illness, phobias, popular culture, and relationships. The painter synthesises elements of abstract expressionism, neo-expressionism and symbolism.

Her series 'Symptoms of Nothing‘ (2019) uses colour and texture to mimic the ambiguous experiences of a person suffering from hypochondria. This symbolic use of colour and texture speaks to the idea that the hypochondriac is not necessarily aware of what exactly it is they are experiencing or why. The body of work presented in her first solo exhibition 'Secret Homegirls‘ (2019) centres around the observation of the agoraphobic secret homegirls.

"I paint unusual formative characters to connect the dots about the questions around the female body, and what it goes through. I vent about the vulnerabilities of the mind, the emotions, the reproductive system and how our physical and physiological responses to trauma affect us. How our bodies respond to medications and the things that go misdiagnosed, the things that are going to be dismissed and forgotten, the things we have to protect ourselves from. The things we choose to keep hidden, to be healed and protected." – Yolanda Mazwana

Yolanda Mazwana was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1996. She is a self-taught visual artist currently specializing in painting. In 2019, she received The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary, Johannesburg. In 2020, she was awarded the second prize for the Emerging Painting Invitational Prize, Harare, ZW. Her work has been shown at various public as well as private destinations in South Africa. Yolanda Mazwana lives and works in Johannesburg, ZA.