Artist uses delicacy of lace as a metaphor to change perceptions of black women

Buqaqawuli Nobakada’s work focuses on ‘care and tenderness’ as opposed to ‘endurance and trauma’ narrative

A young artist who spent her formative years in the Eastern Cape uses lace in her mixed-media pieces to shift the narrative of how black women are depicted in art.

Also known as The Lace Lady, Buqaqawuli Nobakada, 24, whose debut solo exhibition is up in Cape Town, says her early years in the rural Eastern Cape informed the way she approached her work…

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