Nadia Kamies graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BSc degree in Occupational Therapy in 1984. She has worked extensively with children in hospital, school and private practice settings. In 2013 she returned to university to complete an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town, driven by her commitment to telling stories as a way of addressing the injustices of the past. This led to her being awarded a PhD in Historical and Heritage Studies from the University of Pretoria in April 2019. Her areas of focus are slavery, apartheid and racism and how they continue to inform the present.
Her essay, Unpick, Restitch: Doilies, Medorahs & Labouring Plants was published by Berlin-based publisher, K. Verlag, as part of an artistic project recuperating missing narratives at the Cape through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling as method by
South African artist Wendy Morris in conjunction with LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. She is the author of Off-Centre and Out of Focus: Growing up ‘coloured’ in South Africa (Fourthwall Books/ESI Press/CAST).
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