Chris Spring

A fascinating insight into the living history of Africa. African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator. In Africa, cloth is used to commemorate important events, people or political struggles that in other parts of the world might be recorded in writing, or marked by a plaque...

In recent decades, archaeologists in South Africa have discovered some of the world's oldest artworks—extraordinary examples of humankind's first artistic endeavours. Today, South Africa enjoys a vibrant, often politicised contemporary art scene, one that draws on both the recent and the more distant past to comment on the present. Taking as its point of departure the earliest known artistic tradition...