Fortune Mpofu is a self-taught artist whose journey began with a pencil in hand and a deep, intuitive connection to drawing from a young age. While largely self-directed, his development has been shaped by the mentorship of renowned African artists, most notably Kaufman Ndlovu, who introduced him to the nuanced world of watercolour, and Francisco Stoki, who played a formative role in his mastery of oil painting.

His first major breakthrough came in 2014 at a prestigious national art event, where he was awarded “Best Artist Under 30.” The recognition, coupled with strong sales at the exhibition, marked the beginning of his professional career and confirmed the unique power of his visual voice.

Since then, his work has continued to gain momentum and reach new audiences, with collectors from around the world drawn to his distinctive style and emotional depth. Whether working in oil or watercolour, his practice is rooted in storytelling, technical precision, and a deep engagement with the human experience.

His work is an examination of the mysteries of order and the complexities of the essence of life form. It also involves giving homage to information and how it can be distorted over some time to take the shape of the human form in a combination of graffiti-like patterns and incomprehensible text. The mark-making of the human form is depicted in a state of integration or disintegration of energies and particles in a non-objective form.

Thoughts Words hold power. The more you know about something, the more it can change you. I assimilate the ambiguous presence of found texts through successive processes of re-interpretation, reading, writing, printing, incision and layering. I draw attention to the labour-intensive process of
cutting relief prints, hand-cut paper, and reassembling them. Reconstructing human figures highlights the paper’s strength and frailty in embodying the notions of the human.

I convey a human body in a convergence of lines and text by repetitive text and paper mechanics. He is fascinated by the human form in its most intangible form. This is depicted by drawing human traces without showing the complete physical structure. The intention is to depict the complexity of the human form by making drawing marks that represent energies. These fragments can be looked at as moments of formations captured in time. The integration or disintegration of matter in action, or the beginning or the end of natural life that takes a new form.

I aim to capture the emotional truth of a moment rather than a literal likeness, using colour, gesture, and form to evoke stories that feel both personal and universal.

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Noise in Colour, 2025
Oil on Canvas

Dis/Integrate, 2025
Spray Paint on paper 150 x 100 cm