Shandré Lummis-Rabie (b. 1998, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across textiles, printmaking, cyanotype, and installation. Through processes of stitching, layering, and collecting, her practice transforms fabric, found imagery, and domestic materials into acts of memory and reclamation.
Rooted in her lived experience and hybrid lineage, her work explores the complexities of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa, and how visibility and representation within dominant narratives continue to shape contemporary understandings of identity, belonging, and race. Drawing from personal histories, inherited memory, and everyday rituals, she considers how histories of colonisation and apartheid classifications fractured belonging, and how acts of making can begin to mend those ruptures.
Moving between the personal and the political, Lummis-Rabie’s work draws on tenderness, humour, and vulnerability to explore how memory and identity are continually shaped and reshaped over time. Through immersive installations and hand-crafted processes, she creates spaces where personal and collective histories can be revisited, reimagined, and held with care.
