Sibiya is a creator of beguiling visual narratives that speak on struggle and survival concealed by hope and the allure of beauty.
Bambolwami Sibiya was born in KwaThema, Springs, near Johannesburg. Sibiya interned as the assistant gallery curator for the APS Gallery during his third and fourth year. Sibiya gained experience in handling the artwork of professional artists during the internship. Sibiya worked on the large-scale linocuts of several leading artists such as William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Norman Catherine and Colbert Mashile. Sibiya was moved by the scale and depth of these weeks to such an extent that he extended his own work on a larger scale as he tackled more ambitious images with added confidence.