Sinqobile Sibiya is a visual artist and entrepreneur from Kriel in Mpumalanga, South Africa, who started her photography journey around 2012.
She realised her love and passion for photography when she first had her Nikon CoolPix camera, which she has learnt a great deal from. Her initial plan was to study to become a Medical Doctor.
She took a gap year in 2016 hoping that she would take an informed decision on her field of study the following year in pursuit for tertiary education. However, she pursued a degree in a Medicine related field first, in the first half of 2017.
After a few months, she realised that being in a medicine related field or anything of that nature was not for her, and most importantly it did not water down the stream of her passion for photography. Her drive was deeply embedded in the visual arts, and she believed in herself, hence, she still believes that art is her calling.
She then decided to drop out in the second half of the year 2017 in order to re-group. During the remainder of the year, she took online photography classes. In early 2018 she then decided to pursue her degree in Bachelor of Arts Film and Television at the University of Johannesburg, which relates more with her urge for photography than anything else.
In the period of her re-grouping session, which was late 2017, Mind On Matter was first established. This, for her was a platform which she created for not only herself but for other female artists to express and show case their talent and their stories respectively, which she still features to date.
Mind on Matter is Sinqobile's mind, in other words my thoughts, visions, ideas, etc, translated onto matter in the form of visual arts, fashion and storytelling.
You might notice that most of the content on this site is female-oriented,
I'd say I'm about woman empowerment but that would be cheesy.
I think I'm just simply intrigued by the different stories that make us, young women, who we are and how those very stories can help us learn more about ourselves and from that grow, not only from our personal stories, but also from others' stories, similar and different
to our own, artistic or non-artistic.
“Photography, actually visual arts and storytelling in general is an escape from me, a form of theraphy.” - Sinqobile Sibiya.