Johannesburg, South Africa – Zimbabwean multidisciplinary artist Sherman Baloyi is set to debut his latest body of work which includes paintings, fashion accessories and furniture at Decorex Africa, marking a significant milestone in his creative journey.
Decorex Africa is the continent’s premier décor, design, and lifestyle exhibition, spotlighting cutting-edge creativity across residential, commercial, and hospitality sectors.
Known for his design studio OnaDsgn, founded in 2015, Baloyi has consistently operated at the intersection of brand identity, storytelling, and user experience. With a career spanning nearly two decades and rooted in graphic design, Baloyi has emerged as one of Zimbabwe’s most compelling creative voices.
His more recent foray into circularity, reimagining discarded materials into works of art, has placed him on the radar of collectors, institutions, and curators alike.
Baloyi's upcoming showcase at Decorex Africa is a powerful culmination of years spent exploring the aesthetic potential of waste and how beauty can be found in the overlooked and thrown away.
“I see my work as a window to potential, a way for people to reframe their understanding of value,” says Baloyi. “My goal is to show that waste isn’t the end of something, it’s the beginning of profound beauty in its glorious entirety.”
From plastic bottle caps to webbing materials, Baloyi has mastered the act of “harvesting” discarded objects and transforming them into installations that interrogates the act of discarding and the potential of it becoming something valuable.
His Onaso platform, which focuses on creativity, climate, and community, furthers his mission to nurture progressive communities and amplify environmental awareness through content creation and educational engagement. The work presented at Decorex is as much about regeneration as it is about representation, and reflects a broader philosophy of sustainable African ingenuity.
“Zimbabwe is compact population wise,” Baloyi reflects, “but our ideas and heritage are vast. As African artists, we have the opportunity to reframe sustainability as something deeply embedded in indigenous knowledge, not a borrowed concept.”
Visitors to Decorex Africa are set to witness a multidimensional showcase that blurs the lines between art, surface and product design, provoking necessary conversations about circularity, beauty, and legacy. A proud moment for Zimbabwe and for African design as a whole, proof that when we look inward, we find solutions that speak to issues across the globe.
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