Woman artist scoops Thapong top award

Matomes winning artworks are a series of digital prints called Mosadi Torso and under the three-part series there is Creative Spirit, Corporate Ladder and Domesticity. One of the things that will most certainly catch the eye of the connoisseur is the fact that all the pieces depict what appears to be ice blocks formed from a glass container.

In Creative Spirit, a painting brush passes through a block of ice and one can interpret this to be an attempt by the creator of the piece to either evoke or highlight the creative spirit found in most women worldwide. Then strangely, Corporate Leather depicts a branch of a cactus going through an ice block and curiously there are some brightly coloured flowers blooming on the cactus. Cactuses more often than not bear drab flowers.