The Fluid Dance (2025) – hand-pulled screen print by Lizette Chirrime

Lizette Chirrime (b.1973) is known for her vivid, textile-driven work; primarily rendered as fabric collages of bold, patterned, wax print materials traditionally associated with African dress. Fabrics are cut up, rearranged and stitched together to form fluid, nebulous shapes symbolic of nature (water in particular) and women, her subjects of choice. This creative process is deeply personal and cathartic, a deliberate act of healing and self-determination Chirrime describes as a “refashioning” of her self-image after a painful, broken past. “I literally ‘re-stitched’ myself together,” she states. She also extends this “mending” and “refashioning” beyond herself – to her community and the natural world – as an almost prophetic act.

Chirrime has held solo shows in the USA, South Africa and her native Mozambique, and participated in numerous international group exhibitions and art fairs in cities ranging from Berlin to London, Dubai to Basel, Venice to Turkey. In 2025 she participated in a residency in Paris, where she presented talks and workshops at the Louvre and Pompidou Centre, and in 2018 she became the first African artist commissioned for Duvel’s limited-edition art glass collection. Chirrime’s work is housed in private collections worldwide as well as in the U.S. Department of State.

• 8-Colour screen print on archival cotton paper (250gsm BFK Rives)
• Paper size: 760x560mm
• Limited edition of 50
• Numbered and signed by the artist
• Hand-printed in South Africa
• Prints are sold unframed