Zanele Montle was born in KwaZulu-Natal, Empangeni, on 19 October 1992. She started her schooling at Empangeni Primary School in 1999, and thereafter attended Empangeni High School from 2006 to 2010. After completing her matric with a distinction in Art, she moved to Gauteng and enrolled for a National Diploma in Visual Arts at the University of Johannesburg. She completed her diploma in 2013 and graduated with a BTech Degree in Applied Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology in 2014.
Read MoreZanele Montle is deeply passionate about art education. In 2019, she obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education with a specialisation in Art, from the University of Johannesburg. Between 2016 and 2018 Montle acquired skills in Graphic Design, Gallery Management and Marketing. Her current work has a strong sense of design elements in its effortless approach of articulating its subject matter in vivid colours, a bold form of repetition with her concept at this point in her artistic practice. It reveals a continuous questioning of what defines black identity through her depiction of everyday life activities in acrylics.
First exhibition with Christopher Moller Gallery - 2021.
Text courtesy Christopher Moller Gallery.
