Table Talk
Sue Williamson: A medium for the message
The important things that marginalised or overlooked people have to say are presented as art in her works, Sue Williamson tells Jonathan Ancer
09 May 2021 - 00:00
While doing research on the spy-turned-apartheid assassin Craig Williamson, I stumbled upon a series of powerful portraits of women involved in SA’s struggle. The image I was interested in was of the anti-apartheid activist Jenny Schoon. A parcel bomb that Williamson sent to the Schoons killed Jenny and her six-year-old daughter Katryn in Angola in 1984...
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