Cape artist Sarah Pratt marries technical skill with a 19th-century obsession with the natural world
Did you plan a career in art?
My mother believed that you couldn’t make a living from art, so I enrolled in a textile design course. In the meantime, I got a job as an assistant to Zimbabwean artist Helen Leiros, which changed everything.
How did Helen influence your career?
She was the first person to push me into fine art. I then had to have a scary conversation with my mother. I promised to do textile design if I could go to university later. My mother, a wise woman, just said, “Why don’t you go to university first?”
Where did you study?
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