Portia Zvavahera
2015 BOMB Magazine

Winter 2015
BOMB Magazine

 Zimbabwean singer and musician Netsayi in conversation with Portia Zvavahera about painting and congruencies in their creative processes

Frieze Magazine, 18 January 2018

'Sumptuous, with a fine sense for balancing gesture and detail, these new paintings are characterized by various descriptions of hopeful containment and ambiguous embrace' writes Sean O'Toole on Portia Zvavahera's new paintings in Take Me Deeper

I'm with You , February 2017

'Ekphrasis for a Veiled Dream': Nomaduma Rosa Masilela observes Zvavahera's process, media and formative encounters in the essay accompanying the artist's most recent monograph

Sunday Times, 15 January 2017
'Clawing at the sublime': Percy Mabandu coonsiders paint, spirit and the spectral in work of Zimbabwe's Portia Zvavahera

ArtReview, October 2015
Complex influences make Zvavahera's art contemporary and of profound interest, argues Matthew Blackman in his review of I Can Feel It in My Eyes at Stevenson, Cape Town

Cape Times, 6 August 2015
'Waiting for the Muse: Unique Afro-expressionist style': Lucinda Jolly reviews I Can Feel It in My Eyes at Stevenson, Cape Town

Business Day, 31 July 2015
'Twin exhibitions conjure the depth of feeling of love and loss': Ashraf Jamal compares work by Portia Zvavahera and Penny Siopis in twin exhibitions at Stevenson, Cape Town

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