The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT), with the support of the Vodacom Foundation, has awarded poet, writer, sculptor and academic – Professor Pitika Ntuli – the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Art.
Pitika Ntuli was educated in South Africa, Swaziland, the United States and the United Kingdom. He taught in several institutions of higher learning in the UK, is widely published and has lectured worldwide on issues of Art and Culture theories. Since returning to his native South Africa after 32 years in exile, he has fulfilled a number of key positions at various institutions of higher learning, including those of Deputy Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs; Head of Department of Fine Art and Art History; and Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Conflict Resolution.
A visionary leader, he has also served as Chairperson of the 2012 Ministerial Advisory Panel on African Languages in Higher Education and Training; current Chairperson of Ministerial Advisory Committee to the Department of Science and Technology on Indigenous Knowledge Systems; and as a member of the Commission regarding Traditional Leadership Disputes and Claims (2005 – 2010).
His sculptures – often using stone, wood or bone – are exhibited worldwide and he has erected several public monuments in different countries. Most recent constructions include a four metre high metal sculpture for the new Cosatu Building in Braamfontein, and a six-metre Silverton Siege Monument in Diepkloof Zone 3; both in Johannesburg. Ntuli has mounted 13 solo and 12 group exhibitions, also assuming the roles of curator and artist-in-residence a number of times. He has also exhibited and performed his poetry extensively.
On receiving the Award, Prof Ntuli explained “Art is language that allows me to express disagreeable ideas agreeably. My life in art has been a ceaseless struggle to find a language that will capture the nuances of my times, and give concrete expression to the dreams that come by day and night. Sculpture is a bullfight that batters and bruises, and stretches the limits of endurance; but in the end you remain with a renewed aesthetic vision and a body pulsating with a spirit found from the relentless search for an ultimate shape or form, that would speak and answer the yet unasked questions.”
The 2013 ACT Awards ceremony was presented in association with the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO), the Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO), Media24 Books, and the Vodacom Foundation and is supported by the Distell Foundation, CLASSICfeel Magazine, Business and Arts South Africa (BASA), KykNet and Pink Room Productions. The Awards scores are audited by Independent Registered Auditor, AL van Heerden.
For more information about the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) please visit www.act.org.za.
More Info link:: http://www.act.org.za/programmes_awards.htm?yearArchive=&category=ACT%20Awards
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 Prof Pitika Ntuli,winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Art, at the ACT Awards 2013 pic by John Hogg (27) Photographer: pic by John Hogg (27) |
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