These essays were written in recent years to accompany exhibitions that I have curated or contributed to. Although each responds to a particular artist or exhibition, together they reflect an ongoing engagement with the histories, ideas and visual languages of contemporary Zimbabwean art.

As for Me
Gillian Rosselli, as for me, The Arches @ Aberfoyle, Honde Valley, Zimbabwe.

Worlds Narrow and Wide: Subject, Object and the Frame in Chicago Dzviti’s Portraits
Chicago Dzviti, Portrait of Zimbabwe | Mifananidzo yeZimbabwe, The Arches @ Aberfoyle, Honde Valley. (Published July 2026)

Our Common Diaries
Cosmas Shiridzinomwa, Our Common Diaries, The Arches @ Aberfoyle, Honde Valley. (Published July 2026)

The Songs We Used to Sing
Olly French, The Songs WE Used to Sing, The Arches @ Aberfoyle, Honde Valley. (Published July 2026)

Grey-Zones
Greg Shaw, Grey-Zones, Artillery Gallery, Harare. (Published July 2026)

Grey-Zones
Greg Shaw, Grey-Zones, (Exhibition Introduction), Artillery Gallery, Harare.

Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era
Greg Shaw and 28 Zimbabwean artists, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.

‘Draw the people and the life around you…’
Richard Mudariki, Mutara Wenguva (Time Line), Sanlam Art Collection, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 2017. (Published July 2026)