Books

When Tear’s Don’t Matter …
“[Courtney-Clarke] has a special eye for the experiences of women who are celebrated here in their role not only as mothers, homemakers, gatherers and nurturers, but individuals who, in later life, hold sovereign dignity as matriarchs; no less regal under their shredded canopies than queens of old.”
Virginia MacKenny, Associate Professor of Painting, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town

Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain …
“In her earlier work Margaret’s concern was the art of African women. In this work her involvement is with the people themselves and their place. Like a pulse in the background her involvement throbs with anger and love. Anger at the stunting of lives, the blunting of hope, the desecration of the Namib and her own frailty, when there is so much to tell. Not the least of which is love.”
David Goldblatt
May 2016

Ndebele …
“The art of Africa is known as a casualty of colonial exploitation, surviving principally in the museums of other continents, never seen by the people who created it. What reappears among African artists today is regarded as a renaissance of a destroyed tradition.

Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s book is a revelation, not of that renaissance but of a glorious continued existence, under the most destructive forms of physical and psychological hardship imaginable, of an artistic culture at the very centre of life itself…..The beauty of this book is unsurpassed in its combination of content and meaning. Its art is also the art of life”

Nadine Gordimer

African Canvas …
“What is Africa to me? It is mysterious, it is exciting, and it has been made more wonderful and more knowable because of the women’s art. The women of West Africa and Margaret Courtney-Clarke”
Maya Angelou

When Tears Don’t Matter
When Tears Don’t Matter

Photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Texts by Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Kileni A. Fernando, Rob J. Gordon and Virginia MacKenny

Cape Dutch Homesteads
Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

Photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Foreword by David Goldblatt

Essay by Sean O’Toole

Ndebele
Ndebele

by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Foreword by David Goldblatt

African Canvas
African Canvas

by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Foreword by Maya Angelou

Imazighen
Imazighen

The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women

by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Essays by Geraldine Brooks

Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou

The Poetry of Living

by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Foreword by Oprah Winfrey

Maya Angelou
My Painted House
My Friendly Chicken
and Me

by Maya Angelou
Photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Kofi and His Magic
Kofi and His Magic

by Maya Angelou

Photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Cape Dutch Homesteads
Cape Dutch Homesteads

Photographs by David Goldblatt & Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Places in the Sand
Places in the Sand

by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Book Collaborations

Neither here nor there...
Neither here nor there...
Architecture: What Remains
Architecture: What Remains