Lizette Chirrime

Lizette Chirrime was born in 1973 in Angoche (Nampula), Mozambique, and grew up in Maputo. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. She attended commercial school until the age of seventeen, but creating artworks through painting and sewing has always been her passion. In 2004, she held her first solo exhibition in Mozambique, and in 2005 she completed a three-month residency at Greatmore Studios in Cape Town, South Africa.

She creates large-scale, textile-based works on canvas featuring abstract forms composed of collaged printed fabrics — from Tshwe-tshwe to other so-called African prints associated with dress across the continent. The interplay between textiles, abstraction, and art as a therapeutic and spiritual tool makes Chirrime’s practice unique and distinctively African.

In 2021, one of Lizette’s artworks became part of the permanent collection of the American Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique.