About Ezequiel
Born in Mozambique 1979
Award Winning Artist
Ezequiel Mabote moved to Durban South Africa in 1998, after his High school education to fulfil his dreams of being an artist. He joined the residency artist programs at the bat centre in 1999.
From the batiks and sculptures bag ground influenced by neighbours at the age of 12. In South Africa, Ezequiel attended woodcut printmaking, oil pastel, acrylic, oil painting art classes workshop at the Bat Centre, a well- known art centre in the city of Durban.
Late in the year, Ezequiel had his first exhibition at the Bat Centre, hosted by Caroline Smart, editor from the Durban Arts Magazine, where he gained exposure from the media.
After his first successful exhibition, Ezequiel continued to work extensively, engaging and participating in many art workshops. Working with Malcolm Christian in 2001 in his studio at the Caversham press gave Ezequiel, more ability and experience more art techniques, such as silk screen printing, linocut and woodcut printing, book binding, drawings and collage medium.
From 2002, Ezequiel started travelling to USA, to exhibit his artworks in various states and attended summer live drawing art classes at the Chicago university.
He facilitated woodcut printmaking classes at the BAT Centre, African Art centre, Durban university of technology in 2004 – 2005. He has worked in many artwork events and projects at the Bat Centre, the Durban University of Technology, the Grosvenor Girls High, the Velobala Art Project, Nando’s art project south Africa and Dubai 2007, workshop with graphic design students at the Bronx Community College in New York in 2010.
Ezequiel specialises in printmaking, woodcut colour reduction, oil pastels, acrylic painting, oil painting, sculpture and murals.
Art commissions with Malboro Cigarrete 2006, Nando’s art commission 2007, book commission by Barry Unsworth’s book – Sagred Hunger, Sunshine bakery Pietermaritzburg, KPMG in 2014, just to mention few.