I didn’t end up making it out to many galleries in Cape Town, but we did go to the SA National Gallery, where I fell in love with Araminta de Clermont’s Matric Queens (the complete body of work was exhibited at another Joao Ferreira Gallery in October 2009 with the name Before Life).

I’m sad that she doesn’t appear to have her own website, but I did find a couple of great audio slideshows of her work. This one features Before Life, the pictures of Matric Queens, and this one features her earlier work about former prisoners and their tattoes, Life After. Go check both of them out. You won’t be sorry.