#zizipho

[odedalony]

[strathshepard]

Zizipho Poswa: Lobi, 2024

[mybeingthere]

Zizipho Poswa is a Cape Town-based ceramicist whose large-scale work takes inspiration from her own personal history as a Xhosa woman and an artist living in contemporary South Africa. Zizipho Poswa's ceramic pieces embody elegance, beauty and delicacy. Zizipho is in love with colour, texture and handmade processes.

Looking at Zizipho's works you must see them in a setting of a room, next to a human figures, furniture, paintings - many ceramic and bronze pieces are HUGE!

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[criticcritiquing]

ZIZIPHO POSWA – IINTSIKA ZESIZWE (PILLARS OF THE NATION).

[tnnkmm]

“I draw inspiration from tribal art. Some of my pieces are inspired by hair combs.”

“Clay is a tricky medium,”

Zizipho Poswa

[tastefulpoof]

Zizipho Poswa. Artist from Cape Town, South Africa. Pictured are the works from her Magodi, Umthwalo, and Ilobola series respectively. Photo credits to the Southern guild gallery, Imiso ceramics, and Zizipho Poswa.

https://southernguild.co.za/journal/watch-zizipho-poswas-vision-of-female-strength/

[mnkululeko]

We chat to Zizipho Ntobongwana, founder of Sheba Feminine – an organic pads and tampons brand – about the difficulties of running a niche business.

Supporrt Black Female Businesses. 

[iamlithalethu]

saturday, oct. 23, 2021

I’ve decided to start writing things online. Writing things down doesn’t work anymore. But, I’ve decided I need an outlet to record progress on thoughts, ideas, relationships, etc. Mindlessly living after knowing a life of surety in your thoughts and the way you process them doesn’t make sense. Mindless existence is weird. It’s crippling. And I’ve been crippled for a good chunk of this year. 

I’m lost. 

I don’t understand what’s going on anymore. The month of October has been jarring, to say the least. Everything I thought I knew and wanted doesn’t quite fit anymore. It’s also been a testing month faith-wise. Prayer feels like speaking into an echo chamber. And perhaps I’m praying wrong, but a God who knows your heart surely knows what you mean when you pray to Him, right?

Granted, I haven’t been fully connected to Him. I’ve been distracted with school, maintaining friendships, building a relationship, trying to figure out what the fuck is going to happen next year. It feels like I’m at a standstill. And it feels like I’ve been standing still this entire year. I’ve made no progress I can visually see, and I’m not sure if I’ve made any progress on the inside either. People always say that if God is not changing your external, He’s working on your internal. But what has He been working on? I feel less than stable. I feel flimsy, weak, uncertain. I feel vulnerable. My moods switch up incredibly quickly. One moment, I’m wailing on the floor thinking about how I’m so awfully broke, and then the next I’m dancing around my flat feeling gratitude for having one at all. 

I feel like a failure. I’ve said it time and time again throughout the last week. My final research film has fallen apart. I still have debt backed up from a job I worked; a job I never got paid for and was teased for not doing properly. I try to create, and then I think about this industry. And then I shut down. To be an artist these days, you need your shit to go viral. You need people behind you, sharing your work, commenting on your work, loving your work. And I don’t doubt that I’m loved, but I do doubt my ideas, and their potential to reach people and make them feel things -- so much so that because of these feelings, opportunities just fall into my lap. 

Working on this final film has made me aware of the fact that I never share anything I work on, especially as it pertains to film school. I’ve never made anything I’m completely proud of. Never. And it’s been four years. 

And the one time I want to, the one time I have a story that I want people to hear, it just doesn’t work. And that’s why I’m angry with God, and my circumstances, and my family for not moving mountains so that I can shoot this film in Dainfern and have it happen. This is a film I want to carry with me, and I feel like no one is behind me, not even God. 

It makes me think of the creative projects I want to embark on. I want to start a podcast that helps creative people find opportunities to pursue their dreams (I want to bring my friends on there, have a pretty set, put it on YouTube as well). I want to make TikToks next year when Zizipho and I move surrounding interior design, and furnishing our new place. Hopefully there, I could also eventually move to the YouTube platform, and tour other people’s homes. I also want to do this visual series I’ve had in my head for time, but can’t seem to find the courage to start. 

I’ve been battling with courage a lot lately. Directly, with my cockroach situation in the flat. It’s so weird how creatures so small cripple me so much, to a point where I get stuck in one spot and can’t move. And I can’t seem to shake that it’s just a metaphor for this little chapter I need to write and get through: the things I’m afraid of are minuscule compared to the bigger picture. If I can just put fear aside, there is so much waiting for me. 

But why isn’t God giving me the opportunity to put that fear aside? What inside of me is not done yet?

[dlaminiyehana]

RAW listen live afrika

Zizipho Zikamdali Rala

[aurorevinot]

Dans le cadre de la 5ème édition de la biennale des métiers d’art Révélations, retrouvez dans le parcours IN & OFF 2022 à Paris, une belle programmation qui donnera à voir près de 24 ateliers/artisans/designers originaires de plus de 10 pays africains grâce à Nelly Wandji ( Exceptions d'Afrique <3).

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Le teaser de la série Art & Exception dont j'ai assuré la Direction artistique filmique est en ligne pour mieux découvrir ces femmes artisanes exceptionnelles :

https://artexception.co/

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Vous pourrez ainsi voir des portraits exclusifs de : 

1. Zizipho Poswa, la pionnière, céramiste (Afrique du Sud) 

2. Christiane Rwagatare, la résiliente et les brodeuses de Rutongo ( Rwanda)


3. Sadika Keskes, la révolutionnaire, Souffleuse de verre (Tunisie)


4. Nathalie Djakou Kassi, la déterminée potière d’art (Cameroun)


5. Lisa Folawiyo, l’élégante créatrice de mode ( Nigeria)


Belle découverte à tous,

Aurore

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#metiersdart #documentaire #portraits #metiersdartafricains #madeinafrica #africandesign

[odedalony]

[heretoinspire]

Via @archdigest Transformed by architect @antondekock and architectural designer Philip Fourie, the Baobab at the newly refreshed @xigeralodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta now brims with treasures by some 30 African artists—including ceramics by @andiledyalvane and Zizipho Poswa, bronze sculptures by Sarah Heinemann, and timber pieces by Adam Birch and @davidkrynauwontwerp. (Hotelier Toni Tollman and the Cape Town–based gallery @southernguildgallery also collaborated on the program.) Photo courtesy of The Red Carnation Hotel Collection; architecture by @antondekock; architectural design by Philip Fourie; words by @missmaryholland. https://www.instagram.com/p/CL-Y-QanW1A/?igshid=kcbmr82g6b9x

[stanislawtrzebinski]

So Excited to show you all my “nestle” Armchair. “SOLACE” A group show, @southernguildgallery Opens on Thursday, 29 October 2020 4-6 PM / 6-8 PM Please contact the gallery to book a time slot so that they can manage guest numbers in line with COVID regulations. Very honoured to be exhibiting alongside some of Africa’s 🔝 designers a d artists! Adam Birch Andile Dyalvane Charles Haupt Chuma Maweni Conrad Hicks Driaan Claassen Gregor Jenkin Jesse Ede Jozua Gerrard Justine Mahoney Madoda Fani Meyer von Wielligh Otto du Plessis Philippe Bousquet Rich Mnisi Shirley Fintz Stanislaw Trzebinski Trevor Potter Xandre Kriel Xavier Clarisse Zizipho Poswa 💥 💥 💥 ________________ www.stanislawtrzebinski.com _________________ #desingers #artbasel #artbaselmiami #artcollector #designer #artcollective #africandesign #functionalart #sculpting #contemporarysculpture https://www.instagram.com/p/CGh930eH3vH/?igshid=e8m79pcnvxxt

[studiotswapo]

w. Zizipho Mahuza & @starboyblk draped in @eveemporium

[sazintuli]

I thought this was very cool. 

A fresh look at long-standing products is often all the creativity you need.

I wish Zizipho loads of success!