Taking print orders - please email if interested. Or view the catalogue for info. We all know that the words we use can promote the value of something or diminish it. We also know that a product can be deemed valuable in the hands of one person, but less valuable in the hands of another. I met Ma Eunice Jabulani as a young craft developer in 2002. I was reacquainted with her in 2016, 14 years after we first met. What struck...
Taking print orders - please email if interested. Or view the catalogue for info. The first thing you notice about Ma Dudu is her face; it is expressive, open and quite frankly, radiant. She has a mischievous sense of humour and laughs often. Although she faces a number of physical challenges, Ma Dudu is always at the craft workshops, weaving away with the rest of the group. We see her walking along the sandy roads of KwaJobe, a bag of ilala in...
Taking print orders - please email if interested. Or view the catalogue for info. Ma Khethiwe is a member of the KwaJobe craft group. She has green fingers and grows the most beautifully luscious vegetables in the fertile soil of the iSimangaliso Wetlands. During Covid-19 lockdown, it has been the sale of vegetables, not craft, that have sustained many of the KwaJobe crafters. For rural households, lockdown made life just that much harder. Grown children working in cities like Durban and Johannesburg,...
Sold. Taking print orders - please email if interested. Or view the catalogue for info. Love it or hate it, the song Jerusalema, has been the soundtrack to a very difficult year. Dance challenges swept the globe: some brilliant, others painful to watch. The one that caught my attention was by the African Kids dance crew in Tanzania. It has had 25 million downloads, yet not a peep of recognition in their home country. I found the crew on Instagram and we discussed...
Sold. Taking print orders - please email if interested. Or view the catalogue for info. The reference for this painting was taken by Langa Zulu, at a 4iR event, hosted at the local primary school next to I Learn to Live - Ngifundela Ukuphila (NPO). AlgoAtWork, along with the Lab Mobile, spent a morning blowing the minds of the primary school children. From whizzing drones to virtual reality goggles - the children experienced many 'first times' that day. The image captured by Langa is the...
Seventeen years ago, a community of female crafters in KwaJobe (Kwazulu-Natal), welcomed 5 young designers into their homes. Here I met MaMlambo, and took her photo outside her daughter's rondavel, late one afternoon. Many years later, I looked through those old photos and her face caught my attention. She looked so sad, so solemn. Perhaps it was not how she was feeling - just an ill-timed capture of a "what's taking so long?" expression. Today I found MaMlambo. Armed with a framed...
Available for purchase - price on request Between 2017-2019 I worked with a team of researchers on The Narratives of Home and Neighbourhood project. An NRF funded research project through the Urban Futures Centre, in Durban, South Africa, it was encouraged creative methodologies. Shared Spaces is from an image captured during fieldwork in Quarry Road West informal settlement. During the COVID19 lock down, I’ve thought often of the people living in informal settlements. Luxuries like space, indoor ablutions, and more than adequate...
Our paths crossed when Sphe joined our first Take Back Your Future programme, at I Learn to Live. Sphe had studied fashion design, but was struggling to find a job. She wanted to improve her computer skills and English literacy. Sphe is possibly the most vibrant person I know. Her smile is contagious, her dress sense completely unique. She's a wild flower in a dry and dusty rural community. I took a photo of her standing outside the studio that...
I met Ma Jabulile one year at the annual Izulu Orphans Project Christmas party; the highlight of many a child's year. Ma Jabulile had the most striking presence. She stood head and shoulders above many of the women there, and her stance was strong and confident. I caught her mid-praise, her hands clapping to the rhythm, her voice loud and clear. There was something so alive about her. From the brightness of her clothing, to the obvious joy at being...
Sold A dying zebra surrounded by a sentry of blesbok. This unexpected sighting in the parched, sun scorched veld in Zululand (2012), perfectly echoed the unimaginable task of releasing my mother's ashes into the warm, dry air. Client America Medium Oil on canvas Size 1.5m x 55cm...