Lady Skollie, South African Artist
South African artist Lady Skollie discusses with the ±«Óătv’s Victoria Uwonkunda the use of symbolic fruit in her work and the pressures of creating a mural in just 2 days.
Lady Skollie is a visual artist, passionate about defying taboos. Her works are explosions of colour often featuring symbolic fruit such as open ripened paw paws and bananas representing male/female relationships and highlighting the enormous problems of HIV/Aids and sexual violence in her native South Africa. The ±«Óătv’s Victoria Uwonkunda follows her from her studio in Johannesburg to the Tyburn Gallery in London, where as part of her first UK solo exhibition, she creates a mural on the wall in just 2 days.
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Broadcasts
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 02:32GMT±«Óătv World Service Online, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East, UK DAB/Freeview & West and Central Africa only
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 03:32GMT±«Óătv World Service South Asia
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 04:32GMT±«Óătv World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 06:32GMT±«Óătv World Service Australasia
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 10:32GMT±«Óătv World Service except News Internet
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 21:32GMT±«Óătv World Service except News Internet