TAXI-007: Noria Mabasa

Text by Dr. Rayda Becker and Kathryn Straughan, edited by Karen Press; 95 pages; 48 pages of color images; softcover; with French and Dutch translations; David Krut Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0 9 584496 5 1 Noria Mabasa is an artist based in Limpopo province, north of Johannesburg. She is a sculptor of large woodcarvings and figurative ceramic work who first came to prominence in the urban art scene in the mid 1980s. Her extraordinary sculptures inspired by dreams and visions of her ancestors, were included in the first Johannesburg Biennale and she was most recently awarded the order of the grand counsellor for her achievements in art under difficult circumstances.