"I had everything I needed, and I went to a good high school which was multiracial. Many families couldn't afford to s…"

"There were no museums and galleries in the town I grew up in; that was foreign to me."

"...I can now marry the two worlds – fashion and fine art aren't far off from each other."

"The fabric used to produce uniforms for domestic workers is an instantly recognizable sight in domestic spaces in Sou…"

"The female visual artists before my generation worked extra hard and paved the way for me. Some of them are being rec…"

"This was more about how I see the world and how I look at myself as a black woman born in apartheid South Africa in 1…"

"Sibande has used her work to expose many different things, from postcolonial South Africa to stereotypes of women as …"

"Sibande's theatrical quotations of the language of dress and use of dramatic poses may be related to photographic rep…"

"Her body of work is divided into colour-based themes, and after her ‘blue period’, Mary moved to purple, with the hig…"

"More rich, more noble I will ever hold The Muse's laurel, than a crown of gold."