South Africa Graffiti Outlaw Sandile Radebe Now a Top Artist

Sandile Radebe is now a long way away from his previous life as a graffiti renegade on the streets of Johannesburg [Photo: Darren Taylor]

The King Kong mural was based on the album cover of the 1950s South African hit musical, also called King Kong (S. Radebe)

The mural he created for the King Kong jazz club in Johannesburg (S. Radebe)

He’s now using cardboard to create his art, and is blurring the boundaries between art and architecture (S. Radebe)

But Radebe remains dedicated to what he calls the “essence” of graffiti in his art, and he often still uses graffiti lettering (S. Radebe)

He enjoys working with primary shapes and colors(S. Radebe)

Radebe paints murals, such as this one at the Noord Street taxi rank in central Johannesburg (S. Radebe)