'My practice is informed by the politics of aesthetics, and more significantly how the colonial history in Zimbabwe continues to manipulate aesthetic values. My work as a ceramic sculptor looks at reimagining the everyday and examining the subtle treason of objects.' Xanthe Somers.
Selected shows, art prizes and education:
Education
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MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2020
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Fine Art (Hons) at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2015
Selected shows
- Bad+ Bordeaux Art + Design, Galerie Revel, May 2023, Bordeaux, France
- Group Show, Galerie Revel, Collect Art Fair, London, UK, 2023
- Group Show, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, November 2022, Miami, USA
- Group Show, Paris Design Week, Galerie Revel, September 2022, Paris, France
- Group Show, 'Dialogues' Galerie Revel, July - September 2022, Bordeaux, France
- Solo show, ‘A Vocabulary for ghosts’ at First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls 2021
- Group show at Benteler and Bellm London, UK, 2021
- Group show at 99 Loop, Untitled 8.9. Cape Town, 2020
- Solo show ‘The Grass is Singing’ Index – Wort und Wirkung, Zurich, Switzerland, 2017
- Solo show, ‘The Intimacy of Objects’ Corridor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe 2017
- Solo show ‘Hole not Whole’ Fusion Art Gallery, Turin, Italy 2016
Art Prize
- Top 10 finalist Celeste Art Prize exhibition, OXO London, UK, 2017
- Top 10 finalist exhibition for Blooom Award by Warsteiner at Cologne Art Fair, 2017
- Full grant to study Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy at Goldsmiths, London, 2019