Cathy McRoberts

Artist & Lecturer

Cathy McRoberts was born in the UK and educated as an artist in London.

After graduating, she practised as a textile designer in the UK, France and Italy. While teaching in schools and colleges in London she continued to produce textile designs on a freelance basis and travelled with design collections to New York and Italy.

On moving to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1988 she taught in the art department of Bulawayo Polytechnic and regularly exhibited textiles and painting in Bulawayo and Harare.

After Namibian independence in 1990, she settled in Windhoek and currently lectures in textiles at the University of Namibia Visual Arts Department.

Her particular interests are in the production, use and social significance of textiles in Africa.

Tel 264 61 206 3026