Youlendree Appasamy is a feminist free radical based in Johannesburg, with work spanning writing, editing, jewellery-making, collage and zine-making. Their work is borne from observing the affects underlying daily interactions and their writing interests include histories of Indian indentured labour in South Africa, gender and family-making in South African Indian communities, art, trauma, silence and anything that has to do with the ocean. She’s currently an Africa is a Country writing fellow.
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Kate’Lyn Chetty has just completed an MA in Fine Art at the University of Johannesburg. She is a printmaker as well as a paper maker. She uses materials that have strong connotations to her family and their history in her paper. “I am currently exploring political influences on both documentary and family photography," she says of her studies. "My work is centred around my family’s experience while they lived in Sawoti, a farming community, during apartheid.” Her use of old family photographs ensures that there is a level of respect and care that is shown in her manipulations of the materials. She is registered for a Postgraduate certificate in Education and hopes to one day share knowledge that has previously been omitted from current curriculum.
