Majela Paballo

Born in 1990, in Qwa Qwa, Freestate Province; Paballo Majela currently works and resides in Pretoria, South Africa. He graduated in 2018 from Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) with a BTech in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. Majela currently works for TUT sculpture studio in the sculpture department. His art practice specializes in sculpture and painting. He uses multiple creative mediums to express his cultural identity and artistic viewpoint, and his work is a deeply layered context of African history, all giving art lovers a look into the beliefs and the overall perspective of the artist. “My current body of work is based on my upbringing in the mountainous setting of Qwa Qwa, my Sotho heritage, and the folklore that existed in my youth. I create sculptures and paintings reimagining the Sesotho culture into a fantasy that is inspired by tales that were once told. In visually narrating the fictional realm of The Thaba-Bosiu Guardians, I aim to archive the rich folklore history of the Basotho people within my artworks, while interrogating and documenting the contemporary existence of the black male as a subject”.