BA in Visual Communication with a specialisation in illustration (Open Window Institute)
Balekane Legoabe (b.1995) works in both digital and traditional media. Her practice includes mixed media drawings, digital collages and animations. The artist matriculated from The National School of the Arts in 2013, having specialised in Visual Arts. She then went on to study at The Open Window Institute from 2014 - 2018 where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication with a specialisation in Illustration, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Film Arts specialising in Motion Design and Stop Motion and puppetry.
Legoabe's digital artwork explores the complexities of values and truths, and the resultant impact on personal and social identity: the artist is the recipientof the 2019 StateoftheART Gallery Award.
Selected Exhibitions
2022
Group exhibition -
Abstract*d, StateoftheART Gallery Cape Town
2020
2019
Summer Salon Exhibition - Bag Factory, Johannesburg
Collaborative Exhibition 'The Fatuous State Of Severtity'at TMRW Gallery
Group exhibition Ín This, I Found Myself'- No End Contemporary Art Space, Johannesburg
StateoftheART Gallery Award Finalists Exhibition - Cape Town
Turbine Art Fair - No End Contemporary Art Space Booth, Johannesburg
Joint exhibition with Bianca Brand - No End Contemporary Art Space, Johannesburg
Joint exhibition with MJ Turpin - No End Contemporary Art Space @ FNB Art Jhb.