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South African artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zizipho Poswa (born December 5, 1979) is a South African artist and ceramicist based in Cape Town.[1]
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Born | December 5, 1979 Mthatha |
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Poswa was born on December 5, 1979 in Mthatha, and was educated at Cape Peninsula University of Technology.[1] She studied textile design in college.[2][3] She operates a studio called Imiso Ceramics with artist Andile Dyalvane.[1] Imiso pots are carried by retailer Anthropologie.[4]
Poswa's work expresses African womanhood and the role that Xhosa women play in contemporary life.[1] She produces large-scale, hand-built sculptural pieces.[2] Her iLobola series draws inspiration from the Xhosa rituals of lobola, or bride-wealth, the tradition of paying the bride's family with cattle.[5][6] She has also drawn from the labor of rural women and traditional hairstyles.[4][7]
Powsa has shown her work at Design Miami, Salon Art + Design, and Southern Guild gallery.[3] Her work was included in the exhibition Before Yesterday We Could Fly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[8] Her first solo exhibit in the United States, "iiNtsika zeSizwe (The Pillars of the Nation)" was held at New York’s Galerie56 in the Spring of 2023.[9]
Their works are in these collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[11] Philadelphia Museum of Art.[1][12]
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