Artist, educator, curator & researcher · Co-Director, Ponte d’Arte
Community collaboration · Intuthuko Embroidery Collective · 2004–2015
Embroidered narratives by the Intuthuko collective recording women’s own memories of South Africa’s journey to democracy — winner of the FNB Vita Craft Gold Award, and the subject of a research paper with Gwenneth Miller.
Image to come(Missing info)Journey to Freedom is a body of hand-embroidered narrative panels by the Intuthuko Embroidery Collective, recording the women’s own memories and stories of South Africa’s journey to freedom and democracy. It won the FNB Vita Craft Gold Award.
The work belongs to a wider tradition of testimonial textiles, associated with the international Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory project, and with the Grandmother to Grandmother movement — many of the embroiderers being older women carrying and transmitting these histories.
Celia de Villiers and Gwenneth Miller documented the project in ‘The Journey to Freedom Narratives: Novel Methods of Engagement’ (2015, Taylor University, USA).