Lady Skollie recently took part in a residency with Eastside Projects in Bermingham, United Kingdom. Throughout her time here Skollie has produced new work, held workshops and opened a solo exhibition on the 27 Sepmeber 2019 entitled Weakest Link. This first solo exhibition in a public space in Europe, presents new works from large scale wall paintings to works on paper and performance, expanding her recent Papsak Propaganda series of works around the Dop system — the official system of paying coloured farm workers in alcohol.

Lady Skollie describes her own work as ‘fire, ritual, Khoisan’, referring to the Khoisan indigenous people of southern Africa, who have lived in the region for thousands of years and to who she connects the self-identifying ‘coloured’ community of South Africa — a multiracial group native to the area and distinct from the ‘black’ and ‘white’ population.

Weakest Link will be on show at Eastside Projects (86 Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham UK) until the 14 December 2019.