BANDILE KOKETSO MBULI
Trained in Performing Arts Technology (Cum Laude) and with 13 years of experience within South Africa’s international film scene. Bandile is a visionary artist who founded Kreative Konstant in 2017- an entity centring indigenous voices and methods for craft innovation.
Bandile is a ‘World Builder’ concerning her costume practise. Her research approach is exemplary of her love for anthropology, allowing her to work with precision when ‘creating history, culture, legacy, tradition and spirit’ with each character she enlivens; most recently expressed in ‘King Shaka’ for CBS.
She merges her experience in make-up artistry (Canadian Screen Award Nominee- ‘The Book of Negroes’), art direction, culinary curation ( Durban’s: The Chairman) to reveal a multi-faceted body of work fundamentally concerned with sustainable practises and the restoration of dignity through art, activism and education.
‘Bandile is a wildly cerebral artist as well as a problem-solver, [and] intuitively knows how to work with a wide range of personalities.’ An effective communicator who is ever able to mobilise and motivate her teams to achieve a common goal, on time, by creating a healthy, dynamic and unconventional work environment that fosters the highest potential from all of its members.
