Ditiro Mashigo

Ditiro Mashigo is a South African artist, textile designer, and researcher working at the intersection of fibre art, surface design, and material storytelling. Her practice engages textile as both medium and knowledge system, exploring memory, identity, and embodied ways of seeing through processes such as weaving, printmaking, embroidery, and garment construction.

Mashigo holds a Postgraduate Diploma (2023), an Advanced Diploma (2022) in Fine and Studio Arts, and National Diplomas in Textile Design (2016) and Fashion (2014), all from the Tshwane University of Technology. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across South Africa and internationally, including Ge Maru a Ema Ema (RAMPA, Porto, 2026) and Written in Thread (RMB Latitudes Art Fair, 2024).

Her research-led practice is grounded in collaboration and community engagement, with projects spanning institutional commissions, public programming, and mentorship. She has been recognised through the Dean’s Prestigious Scholarship (2023), the STILL Artists Residency (2024), and as a finalist for the Cassirer Welz Award (2025).

Mashigo’s work positions textile practice as a site of cultural memory, contemporary inquiry, and future-making within the African context.