The 1st artist I met in Rockville Soweto while in search for the inner artist. !st day I met him He got me working on a piece He was doing for the National Department of Art and Culture. Through him I met a whole lot of artistic genuises throughout SowetoAlfred was born at Moroka (Rockville) in Soweto in1970. As a child growing up he was inspired by his elder brother who was a comic artist. During the time he started school from his primary grades, he was appreciated and recognised by his peers and family as a talented young artist. He spent these formative years creating art works and helping schools in terms of art related projects right up until high school.
From 1990 to1994 he studied Fine Arts at Pelmama/Dobsonville College in Soweto. He furthered his studies doing a special art teacher’s training course at the Art Foundation in1995 followed by a graduate course in Art and Culture Management at Wits Business School in1997. In previous years he worked for different organisations, serving as an Art Facilitator/Co-ordinator, managing projects, producing his own art works, and also dealing in commercial art.Alfred is currently teaching Fine Art for Ipelegeng community centre, targeting school students and out of school youth who have shown potential. Alfred empowers these students with skills and techniques so that they can apply this in their schools and create art for themselves.
Alfred is also running a small company called Genesis Art Collective with 3 partners mostly dealing with Print Making, Painting, Signage, Mural Designs, and Skill Transfer. 
Alfred’s art is inspired by the South African cultural heritage and social life within the community, as well as different character portraiture and portraits of South African political icons of the post apartheid era. The medium he prefers working with the most is: oil, acrylic paint, pencil and mix medium.
To view more of his work go to http://www.chrysalisfineart.co.za/exhibitions-2011#!__alfred-home
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