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Portia Zvavahera

Born in 1985, Harare, Zimbabwe

Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe

Overview

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 wit...Read more

Selected artworks
Portia Zvavahera
Wonderfully Made [1], 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
What I See Beyond Feeling [1], 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
Wonderfully Made [2], 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
Handidi Kuzviona, 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
Sacred Vessels, 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
What I Saw, 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
Embraced and Protected in You , 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
Vese Vakanddibata (They all gave me strength), 2016
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Portia Zvavahera
I Can Feel It in My Eyes [26], 2015
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