Nomfanekiso: The Art of Gladys Mgudlandlu, an overview of Mgudlandlu's work, art historian Elza Miles traces the development of this singular artist – from her early, meticulously detailed works, evoking the textural richness of embroideries and tapestries, of landscapes painted from memory and imagination, depicting idyllic rural lifestyles, and large mystical bird forms, to her later works depicting urban scenes and simplification of shapes, enlivened with broad sweeping brushstrokes of colour."
