Portia Zvavahera

Portia Zvavahera

BornNationalityBased In
1985ZimbabweanHarare
Biography

Portia Zvavahera combines loose, gestural and expressive brushwork with detailed, decorative textile-like patterns – formed from precise mark-making and printmaking techniques – to create rich, patchwork quilt paintings, rendered in large scale. From a Western perspective, Zvavahera’s paintings may appear to be Klimt-like in their composition and scale, yet the artist’s visual language and references are distinctly rooted in her homeland of Zimbabwe. The works are like dreamscapes, abundant with immersive imagery formed from meditations on themes essential to the human condition, such as love, death, pleasure, pain and loss. While the ethereal works depict women, family members and animals, often faceless and spectral, they are always a representation of the artist, who relates that ‘it is me in the paintings… I can only speak about myself.’ ...

Selected Artworks
Vese Vakanddibata (They all gave me strength)
Portia Zvavahera
Vese Vakanddibata (They all gave me strength), 2016
199 x 315cm
Embraced and Protected in You 
Portia Zvavahera
Embraced and Protected in You , 2016
210 x 400cm
What I Saw
Portia Zvavahera
What I Saw, 2016
199 x 332cm
Sacred Vessels
Portia Zvavahera
Sacred Vessels, 2016
269 x 200cm
Handidi Kuzviona
Portia Zvavahera
Handidi Kuzviona, 2016
238 x 140cm
Wonderfully Made [2]
Portia Zvavahera
Wonderfully Made [2], 2016
206 x 153cm
What I See Beyond Feeling [1]
Portia Zvavahera
What I See Beyond Feeling [1], 2016
209 x 138cm
Wonderfully Made [1]
Portia Zvavahera
Wonderfully Made [1], 2016
206 x 136cm
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