SUE WILLIAMSON, There's Something I Must Tell You

223pp., 4to., colour illus., paperback, Skira, Milan, 2025

ISBN: 9788857254388

Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition, spanning five decades of Sue Williamson’s practice, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, February-October 2025. The exhibition includes more than 100 artworks spanning a wide range of media, including printmaking, drawing, embroidery, photography, installation and video.

Contributions include:

Curatorial Foreword by Andrew Lamprecht

"A Promise Song: Sue Williamson in the women's chorus" by  Zoé Whitley

"Material Recurrences and Ethical Returns: Sue Williamson's District Six work" by Sean O’Toole.

"The exhibition reads like a timeline of the country's local histories of dispossession. It comes at a time when dialogues around freedom have gotten both more complex and frustratingly hollowed out." Artforum

"What this exhibition achieves is a deeply intimate telling of South Africa's history, told over five decades and often highlighting moments of great intensity." Art in America

Sue Williamson lives and works in Cape Town. She was born in 1941 in England, and her family emigrated to South Africa in 1948. She began her career as a journalist. In the 1970s she started making work which addressed social change and by the late 1980s she was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country’s political struggle titled, 'A Few South Africans'. In 1997, she founded www.artthrob.co.za, a website on South African contemporary art, and is the author of South African Art Now (2009) and Resistance Art in South Africa (1989).