Billy Mandindi (born July 1967 in , Cape town,died, Cape Town, 2005, South Africa) is a South African artist who worked in several media, including painting, sculpture
He was educated in King William’s Town, Eastern Province. Although Mandindi attended classes in Drawing at the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Cape Town for one year, and at the Community Arts Project (CAP), he is largely self-taught. He regularly attends workshops like those of the Visual Arts Group. Apart from printmaking, he also produces drawings, paintings and sculptures. Billy has been associated with Hardground Printmakers for the past 4 years where his prints and portfolios of linocut are produced. His work has been shown on group exhibitions since 1986 in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch as well as Great Britain and the USA. He was invited by the Belgian curators to participate in the 1995 Africa Biennale in Johannesburg. Billy was invited to Denmark, Copenhagen in 1996 for the “96 Containers across the oceans” exhibition. The same year he was invited to partake in the “Fault Lines” exhibition held in the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, the theme of the exhibition was “June 16” marking the uprising of black students against Afrikaans as a first language in black schools in 1976. Public collections, which include the work of Billy, are as follows: S A National Gallery, Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg University of South Africa, Pretoria University of Stellenbosch Caltex Collection Truworths Collection
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