Louis Maqhubela: Recent Work

Louis Khela Maqhubela was born in 1939 in Durban, South Africa. He studied under Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Komalo at the Polly Street Centre, Johannesburg. After leaving South Africa, he settled in London in 1978, where he undertook further studies at Goldsmiths College in 1984 and the Slade School of Art between 1985–1988.

Painting on canvas, oil or gouache on paper, he was recognised early in his career in South Africa, where in 1967 he was hailed as the first black painter of distinction with first prize in the Adler Fielding Gallery's Artists of Fame and Promise exhibition. The award came with a three month travel bursary to Europe and the UK. After further prizes, he left South Africa in 1973, moving first to Spain, and then London, where he has lived and worked ever since.