CLAY FORMES, contemporary clay from South Africa

272pp., 4to., colour illus., hardback, Cape Town, 2023

Features the work of thirty South African artists, born between 1941 and 1998, including Hylton Nel, Belinda Blignaut, Jabulile Nala, Ian Garrett, Andile Dyalvane, Katherine Glenday, Zizipho Poswa, Madoda Fani, Marlene Steyn, Hennie Meyer, Astrid Dahl, Chuma Maweni and Ruan Hoffmann.

Includes the essays:

"Fashioning a Language of Love" by Sean O'Toole

"Digging Up an Ancestor" by Caitlin MacDonald

"An Intimate Materialism" by Ashraf Jamal.

South African art historian Olivia Barrell founded ART FORMES in 2021 "to showcase sculptural form within contemporary African art."