Eva Raath

Eva Raath is one of Zimbabwe's most distinctive visual voices: a printmaker, textile artist and painter whose practice occupies the intersection of material ingenuity, cultural rootedness and formal precision.

She engages the visual languages of African everyday life: textiles, patterns and decorative traditions, drawing on sources as diverse as North African tilework, the granite rock formations of Zimbabwe's Marondera region, and the pattern of the "taxi bag", the woven plastic shopping bag used across Africa. These are treated not as raw material to appropriate but as living visual grammars she enters into conversation with.