Making Marigold

Making Marigold: Beaders of Bulawayo is a portrait containing over 200 photographs and short narratives of a women’s beading co-operative specialising in loomed beadwork, based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Joni Brenner

Joni Brenner is an artist who revisits the same subject – whether live model or skull – over and again, a practice that informs her understanding of learning through doing, looking closely and recognising shifts. Her belief in the value of repetition underpins her fascination, and her collaboration, with the Marigold beading co-operative. She is a Principal Tutor in History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Elizabeth Burroughs

Elizabeth Burroughs is a researcher and writer whose interests include the role of languages in culture and identity, the nature of consciousness, and the processes of making. She has worked primarily in the field of education, lecturing in English Literature and Linguistics, and as senior manager for Umalusi, the quality council for schools and college education in South Africa. She now works as a freelance consultant and writer.