Zizipho Poswa Is Using Ceramics to Celebrate Her Xhosa Ancestry
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- 17 Mar 2023
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For nearly two decades, South African ceramicist and designer Zizipho Poswa has been carving ancient stories in ceramics. She’s frequently relied on clay, but she experiments with other unusual material too, like bronze. The objects she crafts are often large; they flow from a rich tapestry of her heritage.
Born in Mthatha, a small town in Eastern Cape, Poswa attributes her love of art to her mother, who saw her interest in it from a young age and gave her the liberty to explore it. “She nurtured my creativity,” she said on a recent Zoom call. “She would allow me to draw on the walls and curate when her friends came.”
While in college, she studied textile design, a course she saw as an opportunity to explore her curiosity about art. The class put her on track to working in the design and textile industry. After working in that sector for a year, she turned her work in a more conceptual direction, working with her business partner Andile Dyalvane and five others she knew from school. Slowly and imaginatively, they built a story that birthed other stories. Read More..
