Zethu Zizwe Ruby Maseko’s practice explores water as an archive of lived experience, feelings, memories, and knowledge.

Through textiles such as weaving, tufting, stitching, dyeing, sculpture, and moving images, Maseko examines the migration of water through bodies and landscapes, creating symbols that articulate a complex heritage in a non-binary visual language. Her work surfaces pre- and post-colonial experiences, redacted histories, hydrofeminist ideas, relationships to land, and rituals of healing and repair.

Maseko also engages with deep listening and sonic experiments to research specific locations, mimicking bird songs and imagining prehistoric vocalisations. Raised in London, with roots in Southern Africa and Cornwall, her practice incorporates spiritual traditions, using traditional healing salts and foraged pigments such as ochre, and referencing organic forms like seaweed, flora, and fauna.