Justice Mathonsi

Justice Mathonsi (born 1987-) Mathonsi was born in 1987 in Soweto. He moved in 1990 to Ribugwani in Limpopo. In 2011 he moved to Johannesburg and enrolled at Intec Collage to study Architecture. In 2012 Mathoni enrolled at the Artist Proof Studio to study printmaking. He has specialised in lino reduction. He did his fourth year at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg and pursue a career as an artist and printmaker. Mathonsi's work consists of large scale portraits of individuals to emphasise their importance in his life and within the community. The portraits are very detailed and show the elements of time, age, history and knowledge evident in the lines of their faces. The large portraits confront the viewer to acknowledge the huge played by woman in raising children, which is often not recognised in our society. They are humble woman elevated to an important status through his mark making and the pattern pays homage to my Tsonga roots. Justice Mathonsi sees this body of work as a record of his family tree.