List of South African women artists

A

• Clare Abbott, illustrator
• Valerie Adler, painter and designer
• Chrysoula Argyros, painter
• Jane Alexander, sculptor, installation artist
• Julia Anastasopoulos, artist, illustrator, designer, actress
• Beth Diane Armstrong, sculptor

  B

• Mary Elizabeth Barber, amateur scientist, painter, poet
• Nina Barnett, installation artist, now in New York
• Myfanwy Bekker, painter, ceramist, now living in Plettenberg Bay.
• Deborah Bell, painter, sculptor
• Frida Blumenberg, sculptor
• Dineo Seshee Bopape, multimedia artist
• Candice Breitz, artist working with video and photography, educator
• Sarah Britten, writer, lipstick artist
• Rhona Brown, botanical artist

  C

• Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, abstract painter
• Julia Rosa Clark, contemporary artist
• Gillian Condy, botanical artist

  D

• Angela de Jesus, visual artist, curator
• Ethel May Dixie, botanical artist
• Marlene Dumas, visual artist, now in Amsterdam

  F

• Faith47, multimedia artist
• Marianne Fannin, Irish botanical artist, worked in South Africa

  G

• Ambra Gambale, jewellery designer
• Allerley Glossop, painter
• Sophy Gray, artist, architect
• Liza Grobler, mixed media artist
• Louise Guthrie, botanist, botanical artist

  H

• Cecil Higgs, painter
• Philippa Hobbs, art historian, artist
• Rosa Hope, English-born South African painter

  J

• Barbara Jeppe, botanical artist
• Svea Josephy, fine arts photographer, educator

  K

• Marlise Keith, artist working in ink, pencil, acrylics

  L

• Maggie Laubser, painter, printmaker
• Cythna Letty, botanical artist

  M

• Noria Mabasa, sculptor, ceramist
• Esther Mahlangu, Ndebele painter
• Anja Marais, sculptor, multi-disciplinary artist
• Judith Mason, painter, mixed media artist, textile designer
• Jacki McInnes, painter
• Nandipha Mntambo, sculptor, video artist

  N

• Robyn Nesbitt, contemporary artist

  P

• Diana Page, installation artist, now in Istanbul
• Carolyn Parton, contemporary artist
• Barbara Pike, botanical painter
• Deborah Poynton, painter

  R

• Tracey Rose, contemporary artist
• Arabella Elizabeth Roupell, British botanical artist working in South Africa

  S

• Ruth Sacks, installation artist
• Berni Searle, contemporary artist
• Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi, sculptor and painter in pastel, acrylic and oil paint
• Mary Sibande, sculptor
• Penny Siopis, painter, installation artist
• Kathryn Smith, artist, curator, researcher
• Doreen Southwood, multimedia artist
• Mary Stainbank, sculptor
• Irma Stern, prominent painter
• Pamela Stretton, digital artist
• Maud Sumner, painter

  T

• Jill Trappler, painter, weaver, installation artist
• Alys Fane Trotter, Irish poet and artist, remembered for her illustrations of the Cape district

  U

• Jeannette Unite, Earth mining artist, collects minerals, oxides for art materials and photographs industrial sites.

  V

• Marjorie van Heerden, writer, illustrator
• Thelma Van Rensburg, artist working with ink, pencil and charcoal
• Minnette Vári, installation artist
• Diane Victor, artist, printmaker

  W

• Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst, botanical artist
• Sue Williamson, multimedia artist, curator