List of South African women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in South Africa or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

A

  • Clare Abbott (active since the 1980s), illustrator
  • Valerie Adler, painter and designer
  • Chrysoula Argyros (born 1954), painter
  • Jane Alexander (born 1959), sculptor, installation artist
  • Julia Anastasopoulos (born 1983), artist, illustrator, designer, actress
  • Beth Diane Armstrong (born 1985), sculptor

B

  • Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899), amateur scientist, painter, poet
  • Myfanwy Bekker (active since the 1970s), painter, ceramist, now living in Plettenberg Bay.
  • Deborah Bell (born 1957), painter, sculptor
  • Frida Blumenberg (born 1935), sculptor
  • Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981), multimedia artist
  • Candice Breitz (born 1972), artist working with video and photography, educator
  • Sarah Britten (born 1974), writer, lipstick artist
  • Rhona Brown (1922–2014), botanical artist

C

  • Bettie Cilliers-Barnard (1914–2010), abstract painter
  • Julia Rosa Clark (born 1975), contemporary artist
  • Gillian Condy (born 1953), botanical artist

D

  • Angela de Jesus (born 1982), visual artist, curator
  • Mbali Dhlamini (born 1990)
  • Ethel May Dixie (1876–1973), botanical artist
  • Marlene Dumas (born 1953), visual artist, now in Amsterdam

F

  • Faith47 (born 1979), multimedia artist
  • Marianne Fannin (1845–1938), Irish botanical artist, worked in South Africa

G

  • Ambra Gambale (active since 2010), jewellery designer
  • Allerley Glossop (1870–1955), painter
  • Sophy Gray (1814–1871), artist, architect
  • Liza Grobler (born 1974), mixed media artist
  • Louise Guthrie (1879–1966), botanist, botanical artist

H

  • Cecil Higgs (1898–1986), painter
  • Philippa Hobbs (born 1955), art historian, artist
  • Rosa Hope (1902–1972), English-born South African painter

J

  • Barbara Jeppe (1921–1999), botanical artist
  • Svea Josephy (born 1969), fine arts photographer, educator

K

  • Marlise Keith (born 1972), artist working in ink, pencil, acrylics

L

  • Karin M. Lijnes (born 1955), mixed media and ceramics.
  • Maggie Laubser (1886–1973), painter, printmaker
  • Cythna Letty (1895–1985), botanical artist
  • Aileen Lipkin (1933–1994), painter, sculptor

M

  • Noria Mabasa (born 1938), sculptor, ceramist
  • Esther Mahlangu (born 1935), Ndebele painter
  • Anja Marais (born 1974), sculptor, multi-disciplinary artist
  • Judith Mason (1938–2016), painter, mixed media artist, textile designer
  • Jacki McInnes (born 1966), painter
  • Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982), sculptor, video artist
  • Sethembile Msezane (born 1991), visual artist, public speaker and performer
  • Zanele Muholi (born 1972), photographer, video artist, installation artist

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T

  • Jill Trappler (born 1957), painter, weaver, installation artist
  • Alys Fane Trotter (1862–1961), Irish poet and artist, remembered for her illustrations of the Cape district

U

  • Jeannette Unite (born 1964), Earth mining artist, collects minerals, oxides for art materials and photographs industrial sites.

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