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All Our Mothers: Amina Cachalia, Fordsburg

1984 Archival inks on archival paper Work: 77 x 61 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Truth Games: Melanie Magmoed – brother shot – Dolf Vermeulen

1998 Colour laser prints, wood, metal, plastic and perspex Work: 84 x 121 x 6 cm

Truth Games: Melanie Magmoed – brother shot – Dolf Vermeulen

1998 Colour laser prints, wood, metal, plastic and perspex Work: 84 x 121 x 6 cm

All Our Mothers: Caroline Motsoaledi, Soweto

2012 Archival inks on archival paper Work: 77 x 61 cm

A Few South Africans: Amina Cachalia

1984 Photo etching/screenprint collage 70 x 64cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

A Few South Africans - Virgina Mngoma

1984 Photo etching and screenprint collage Work: 100 x 70 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

All Our Mothers: Amina Cachalia, Fordsburg

2012 Archival inks on archival paper Work: 71 x 51.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

That particular morning

2018 Two-channel video installation Variable Dimensions

A Tale of Two Cradocks

1994 Archival pigment ink prints on cotton rag paper, wood, extruded acetate and brass hinges Work: 43 x 500 x 25 cm

There's something I must tell you

2013 Six screen video installation Available on Request Add to My Selection

It's a pleasure to meet you

2016 Two-channel video installation with stereo audio Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

Better Lives: Richard Belalufu

2003 Pigment inks on cotton rag paper Work: 144 x 112 cm

Truth Games: Mrs Jansen – can never forgive – Afrika Hlapo

1998 Laminated colour laser print, wood, metal, plastic Work: 84 x 121 x 6 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Colouring In

1992 Colour laser prints, decoupage frames, lead, black paint, silver foil and cellophane Work: 148 x 386 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Messages from the Atlantic Passage I - V

2017 Engraved bottles, fishing nets, chain, steel shackles, water pumps and tanks Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

Postcards from Africa: Senegalese countryside

2020 Indian ink on Yupo synthetic archival paper, museum glass Work: 70 x 100 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Postcards from Africa: Residence of the king. Sine, Senegal

2021 Indian Ink on Yupo paper Work: 70 x 100 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Postcards from Africa: Factory by the river. West Africa

2021 Indian Ink on archival Yupo paper Work: 70 x 100 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

About

Sue Williamson (b. 1941, Lichfield, UK) emigrated with her family to South Africa in 1948. In the 1970s, Williamson started to make work which addressed social change and by the late 1980s she was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country’s political struggle, titled A Few South Africans (1980s). 

Major international solo exhibitions include: Can’t Remember, Can’t Forget at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg (2017); Other Voices, Other Cities at the SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia, USA (2015), Messages from the Moat, Den Haag, Netherlands (2003) and The Last Supper Revisited (2002) at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Williamson has participated in biennales around the world, including the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2019); several Havana Biennales as well as Sydney, Istanbul, Venice and Johannesburg biennales. Group exhibitions include, Resist: the 1960s Protests, Photography and Visual Legacy (2018) at BOZAR in Brussels; Women House (2017, 2018) at La Monnaie de Paris and National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington D.C); Citizens: Artists and Society Tate Modern, London; Being There (2017) at Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris) and Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (2014) at the International Centre for Photography New York and the Museum Africa (Johannesburg), curated by Okwui Enwezor, and The Short Century (2001-2) also curated by Okwui Enwezor, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and P.S.1 New York.

Williamson’s works feature in museum collections, ranging from the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Pompidou Centre, (Paris), Hammer Museum, (Los Angeles) to the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C), Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town) and the Johannesburg Art Gallery (Johannesburg). Williamson has authored two books - South African Art Now (2009) and Resistance Art in South Africa (1989). In 1997, Williamson founded www.artthrob.co.za, a leading website on South African contemporary art and the first of its kind in the country.  Awards and fellowships include The Living Legends Award (2020), attributed by the South African government’s Department of Sports, Arts and Culture; the University of Johannesburg’s Ellen Kuzwayo Award (2018); the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship (2011); the Smithsonian’s Visual Artist Research Award Fellowship (2007) and the Lucas Artists Residency Fellowship (2005) from Montalvo Art Center in California.

Williamson lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Exhibitions

Miami Seasonal Gallery

06 March - 23 April 2023

Sue Williamson | All Our Mothers | 2022

09 June - 09 July 2022

Cape Town Art Fair | 2023 | ICTAF | Stand A5

16 February - 19 June 2022

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News

ArtReview - Sue Williamson’s Funereal Vitality

Posted 29 March 2023

Five exhibitions to attend this Women’s History Month

Posted 27 March 2023

Goodman featured in 'African Artists: From 1882 to Now'

Posted 11 November 2021

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Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye at the Barnes Foundation in ArtThrob

Sue Williamson in Plymouth — stories of pain and resistance

Review of Sue Williamson's 'Testimony' by Hettie Judah

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