Morgan Mahape
Morgan Mahape is a self-taught artist born in 1983 in Umlazi,
Durban, South Africa. Morgan Mahape’s artworks are inspired by nature where vegetation is a symbol of life and development.
“I work with glass beads on strings. Those are fishline strings. First, I cut out a piece of wood and use nails to hang the strings and then I put the beads one by one. Every string is independent. If you put all the strings together, you get a full picture because the technique itself is a concept of unity. Each bead represents an individual and then the beads on the strings represent a group of people. […]” – Morgan Mahape