Nontokozo Tshabalala also goes by Future_of_Brown (F.O.B), is an award winning multidisciplinary artist, poet, Afrofuturist, speaker, lecturer and designer who was based in Malmö Sweden but has recently relocated back to SA. Born and raised in Standerton, she uses her work as an avenue for posing deeper questions about her identity and the Black experience wherever she goes. Inspired by her nephew, Siyamthanda (Ncufi), she writes and creates from a place of curiosity and instinct often using colour, collage, song and poetry to express her thoughts. Tshabalala is the co-founder of Mam’Gobozi Design Factory, a design studio celebrating the Afrikan identity through creativity. She is also the founder of a community building initiative called Creatives Shall Govern.

Within her vast practice, she’s also co-curated her first big exhibition called Neither Here Nor There (2020) which showed at Konsthall Blå Stället(Sweden), and done work for Facebook Africa and The Africa Centre (London) and Future Brown Space(Sweden). Her work has been shown at The Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) Extended, Malmö Konsthall, The National Museum of World Culture(Gothenburg), and Röda Sten Konsthall (Gothenburg).

Among her accolades, she was awarded the Loeries Young Creative award as well as the Mail&Gaurdian Top 200 Young South Africans, which is a list that recognises and rewards youth who have created resilient, entrepreneurial and robust solutions, Actively shaping South Africa and playing a pivotal role in its future.

Her goal is to transform society one creative avenue at a time.