About
Andrea Mindel (b. 1963, South Africa) is an award-winning
artist and advocate for change, living and working in the shadows of Virginia
and Leonard Woolf in Rodmell, East Sussex.
Through performance, sculpture, film and textiles Mindel confronts the enduring
impacts of colonialism, the live-streaming of genocide, the existential
realities of climate change, and the ongoing struggles for disability rights,
gender equality, and racial justice. Her practice echoes Judith Butler’s
reframing of vulnerability not as weakness but rather as the ground of
resistance.
Mindel is the 2026 Artist in the Archives for the Centre for
Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, and the 2026 recipient of an
Unlimited collaborative public arts commission, Quilt Me A River.