Ras Silas Motse ★ ★ ★ | SOUTH AFRICA

Ras Silas Motse is portraiture and mixed media artist who works with a concept of capturing feelings to narrate contemporary concepts using different African people. He is currently working on a theme he calls The Middle Passage Revisited which was inspired by Tom Feelings. His calling was born and bred in Motlatla, Thabanchu, in the Free State. When he left high school, he went to study Fine Arts and a PGCE at the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein. Then went on to work as a high school educator and now is a full-time artist.

Prior work experience:

• Art educator at Visual Art Cherry where he taught juvenile offenders art,2012
• Fine Arts at Phetogane Secondary School,2013
• Lectured visual Arts as an assistant lecturer at Motheo TVET in 2014.
• Educator at Missourilaan Secondary School, (Visual Arts and Drama) 2014-2019
• Senior Curator at Eyethu Art Space

Curated/Exhibitions, Awards and competitions:

• Group exhibitions at Oliewenhuis Art Museum 2013
• Group exhibition titled Absa Township Art Exhibition Crew competition in the Batho location,2013
• Group Exhibition at Central University of the Free State, curated by Van Vuuren and P.W Burger in 2013,
• Group Exhibition at Touch of Genius Art Gallery in Randburg, 2017
• Silas Motse was also part of international competition, Austrian Art Candid Cute Spring contest 17 and made it to the top 5,2017
• Group Exhibition at Soweto Theatre, titled Taking back the land of the mind,2018
• Pop up Exhibition at The Reef Hotel, titled (Untold and Unseen Struggles), 2018
• Group-Public Exhibition at Mall of AFRICA by Art Miller Institute of Art, 2019
• Digital feature with SEE.ME at The Affordable Art Fair in New York, 2019
• Featured at the National Arts Festival together with The Cultural Exchange and Imiloa, 2019
• Curated: Conversations with Queens Group Exhibition, 2019
• Pop up Exhibition ( Bureaucracies of Rubbish: Recycling of Self Identity)at Eyethu Art Space (on going)2019
• Group Exhibition: The revulotion Will be Televised: Soweto Art Week 6, ArtAlive 2019
• Group Exhibition: Mazars: Egoli ART Fair, with PinpointOne and Gavin Project. 2019

Awards
State of the Arts Gallery Award winner: Peoples Choice Award. 2019

Performances and Features

• Silas performed live/flash drawing at Soma space, Sawubona Lounge in 2018 at Maboneng,
• He was sponsored by Miller to perform Flash Art during a tribute for Mme Winnie Madikezela Mandela at The Tavern.
• He was featured on Reggae Vibes show on Soweto TV
• And various music videos like Amasiko by Akwanda Entertainment released in June 2018
• He was hosted by Lebo Soweto Backpackers as an South African Visual artist during storytelling session,2018
• Live triple drawings during International jazz day at Eyethu lifestyle Centre
• Live triple drawings at Concert for Refugees with Turquoise Harmony Institute. 2019
• Live drawings at the Paris and New-york Heritage Festival 2019 (@Soweto Theatre)

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