2024

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when clouds decided to claim the ocean as their territory
Graphite, charcoal, nightmares, ink and pastel on canvas
⁠180.6 x 135.6 cm (framed)
⁠2024

Picture of the donna Kukama art

they would always speak sofly, always holding their breaths
Graphite, ink, charcoal, erasure, and pastel on canvas
⁠135.6 x 85.6 cm (framed)
⁠2024

Picture of the donna Kukama art

the sun ghosted them, no longer wishing to be in their presence
Graphite, oil pastel, ink, shade, and charcoal on canvas
65.6 x 90.6 cm (framed)
⁠2024

2023

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I'm gettin' so hot, I'm gonna hide your sunscreen!

Acrylic, soft pastel, gin, sweat, revenge on canvas. 

130 x 210 cm

2023

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
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Picture of the donna Kukama art

Even in their kindest-kindest kindness, they remain violent.

acrylic, charcoal, soft pastel, spirit, liquid chalk, spray paint

dimensions variable

2023

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

a ghOst of a ghOst of a ghOst
⁠Acrylic, gold leaf, pastel, wind and acrylic gel, medium on canvas
⁠50.5 x 40.5 cm
⁠2023

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

Even in their kindest kindest kindness, they were violent (vol. 1)
⁠Acrylic, instinct and soft pastel on canvas
⁠129 x 211 x 6.5 cm
⁠2023

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

The Kiss (after after after)
⁠Acrylic, oil, coffee, charcoal, history, and acrylic gel medium on canvas 49.5 x 40 cm
⁠2020-2023

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when Orange was born, she would breathe the freshest fres onto foreign lands
⁠Acrylic, courage, pastel on canvas
⁠136.7 x 207.7 x 4.5 cm
⁠2023

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La Cram La Pour
Acrylic, graphite, soft pastel, memories, oil on canvas
121.7 x 207.8 x 4.5 cm
⁠2023

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Mirror I (when i look at you, i don't read me)
⁠Acrylic, oil stick, turpentine, amnesia on canvas
⁠43.4 x 53 cm
2021-⁠2023

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Post-Mirror III (when i look at you, i don't need me)
⁠Acrylic, oil stick, turpentine, amnesia on canvas
⁠43.4 x 53 cm
⁠2021-2023

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Why You for Me?
⁠Acrylic, oil, rhythm, and charcoal on canvas
⁠128 x 208 x 4.5 cm
⁠2023

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

a amidst all the uncertainty that came with darkness, the stars still recognised us as their own flesh
Monotype, ink, black magic on paper, dyptich
⁠47 1/5 × 63 4/5 in | 120 × 162 cm
⁠2023

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

amidst all the uncertainty that comes with darkness, the stars still recognise us as their own flesh
Monotype, oil, black magic, on paper
⁠2023

2022

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

It wasn't me
Acrylic, gouache, oil stick, evidence and graphite, pastel
⁠202 x 192 x 4.5 cm
⁠2021-2022

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

They told us that remembering would be an effort
Acrylic, trust, acrylic gel, oil pastel on canvas
⁠42 x 26.5 cm
⁠2022

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

To erase oneself over and over and over again
⁠Acrylic, pastel, spirit on canvas
⁠42 x 26.5 cm
⁠2022

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

unwaste my breath, per favore!
⁠Acrylic, graphite, oil stick, wind, oil on canvas
⁠169 x 169 x 4 cm
⁠2022

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

Yesterday I left my shadow behind to survive
⁠Pastel, acrylic, oil stick, grief, gouache on canvas
⁠51 x 41 cm

2021

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...and the grass is holding on
25.4cm x 40.6cm

Oil pastel, liquid chalk, hope and acrylic on canvas

2021

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

The sea recalls
Oil pastel, liquid chalk, hope and acrylic on canvas
⁠28.5 x 43.5 x 5 cm
⁠2021

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

The Soil Will Never Forget
Oil pastel, liquid chalk, hope and acrylic on canvas
⁠28 x 43 x 5 cm
⁠2021

2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

before the tea was spilt, it was served. she looked deep into the teacup and counted all the leaves as they settled.

Black acrylic, graphite, spells, liquid chalk on canvas 

96.5 x 61.5 cm

2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

BLACKBLACKERBLACKEST BROWNBROWNERBROWNEST COLOURCOLOURERCOLOUREST
black acrylic, graphite, rhythm, liquid chalk, moonlight, oil stick on canvas
⁠200 x 170 cm
⁠2020

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Page One-Fifty-Two
Oil stick, rumours, and acrylic on canvas
⁠40.6 cm x 25.4 cm
⁠2020

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Page One-Fifty-Three
⁠Oil stick, erasure, and acrylic on canvas
⁠40.6 cm x 25.4 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

how many breaths fell victim to the trees...
⁠Black acrylic, graphite, hauntings, oilstick on canvas
⁠200.x 170 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

how powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead Graphite, oil pastel, 80% Black Anger, and acrylic on canvas
⁠137.5 x 108.5 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

I bet you think this work is about you (don't you_ don't you_)
⁠Black acrylic, graphite, anger, oil stick on canvas
⁠200 x 170 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

in a sudden stir, all the bitter-ladies gathered to sing as they discovered the sweet taste of multiple refusals
⁠Black acrylic, revolutions, graphite, liquid chalk on canvas
⁠96.5 x 61.5 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

On a voyagé au-delà des frontières du temps pour dévoiler l'instant où l'on n'a pas donné naissance aux silences
⁠(We traveled beyond the borders of time to reveal the moment when we did not give birth to silences)
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

Shadows of fallen fists fighting for fake traumas
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic and lies on canvas
⁠133 x 100 x 5 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

So damn beautiful
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, and pride on canvas
⁠172 x 172 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

The day vanilla decided she was a spice
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, and wishful thinking on canvas
⁠172 x 172 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

Today i'mma emigrate to the moon and take my plants with
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, and gravity on canvas
⁠172 x 172 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

we do not not expect you to believe in us
⁠Black acrylic, faithlessness, graphite, solid truth, liquid chalk
⁠200 x 170 cm
⁠2020

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Picture of the donna Kukama art
Picture of the donna Kukama art

Whenever you fall I hope its a goddamn good break
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, luck, and acrylic on canvas
⁠172 x 105.5 cm
⁠2020

2019

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

We the inconsolable ones
⁠Ink, graphite, pastel, oil stick, tears and breath on canvas
⁠150 x 101 cm
⁠2019

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We can't (and won't) live without our lives

Charcoal. ⁠Ink, graphite, pastel, oil stick, resistance on canvas
⁠89 x 124 x 4.5 cm
⁠2019

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possibly drowning

Ink, acrylic, exhaustion, oil stick, on canvas

124 x 82 x 4.5 cm
⁠2019

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Only because my tears turned me so damn blind
89 x 124 x 4.5 cm
⁠Art Cologne
⁠2019

Picture of the donna Kukama art

The rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting
Oil pastel on canvas
⁠218.5 x 189 x 6.5 cm
⁠Art Joburg
⁠2019

Picture of the donna Kukama art

uhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1
⁠Mixed media on canvas
⁠49 x 34 x 5 cm
⁠Art Joburg
⁠2019

Picture of the donna Kukama art

wuwuwuwu (part of humming series) #2
Mixed media on canvas
⁠49 x 34 x 5 cm
⁠Art Joburg
⁠2019

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And their last words became an unwritten song
⁠181.5 x 162.5 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠⁠2019

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and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, land, bloodlines, and ancestral voices on canvas
⁠162.5 x 167.5 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

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Even your charming uncles are guilty too...
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, ink, tears and screams on canvas
⁠139 x 95 cm

⁠⁠mooood 
solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

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For those of us who live through the holes in your concrete
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic and sunshine on canvas
⁠177 x 167 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠⁠2019

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Only local silences are at war
⁠Ink, graphite, hard pastel, soft pastel, soil, steam and DNA on canvas
⁠96.5 x 141.5 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

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Push it real good!
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic and survival on canvas
⁠157 x 155 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

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She woke up from a deep sleep and uttered VOETSEK!
⁠Acrylic, oil pastel and curses on canvas
⁠160 x 162.5 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

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Sizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, spells and smoke on canvas
⁠174.5 x 143.5 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

Picture of the donna Kukama art

Soft, Painful, Noise
⁠Graphite, oil pastel and humming on canvas
⁠97 x 142 cm

⁠mooood solo
exhibition at blank projects gallery ⁠
⁠Cape Town, South Africa ⁠
⁠2019

Picture of the donna Kukama art

The rain clouds gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting...
⁠Graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, solidarity and fingernails on canvas
⁠218.5 x 189 x 6.5 cm

⁠mooood solo exhibition at blank projects gallery
⁠Cape Town, South Africa
⁠2019

2018

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366 and Still counting...
blood and soil on paper
⁠2018

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A List of Unfortunate Events (from memory) I
Oil stick and graphite on canvas
⁠134x195.5 x 5cm
⁠2018

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

A List of Unfortunate Events (from memory) II
⁠Oil and graphite on canvas
⁠134 x 195.5 x 5 cm
⁠2018

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Black fan
⁠Oil stick on fabriano
⁠38 x 29 cm
⁠2018

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Picture of the donna Kukama art

also when you are terrible, you are not so terrible

⁠Part I
⁠red wine, oil stick and graphite on canvas
⁠66 x 46 cm

⁠ Part II
⁠tempera, glitter, oil stick, and graphite on canvas
⁠65 x 45 cm

⁠2018

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and then we dreamt of a million uprisings and downfalls
squid ink and oil stick on canvas
⁠65 x 45 cm
⁠2018

2016

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364 and still counting...
Blood, sweat and soil on paper, 29 x 21 cm (44 x 36 cm framed)