Usha Seejarim
Usha Seejarim (b. South Africa) is a conceptual and socially engaged artist who uses found objects to communicate complex and simple ideas around the domestic position of women.
Seejarim holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of The Witwatersrand (2008) and is currently completing an MBA through Henley Business School. She is a sculptor who has built an impressive record, having exhibited over 14 solo exhibitions.
She created the great slate figures representing the South African Freedom Charter, a 40 ton steel sculpture of half a clothes pin in 2022, and is probably best known as the artist who produced the 2m high beaded portrait of Nelson Mandela, which formed the backdrop to his funeral in 2013.