Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is a Botswana-born artist utilizing her work to explore the human sense of identity, community, and environment. Within her pieces she utilizes pencil, oil, and wood panels to display compositions of human figures overlapping through figures of landscapes. The figures within Sunstrum’s work have variations of color pigmentation from pink to blue hues in an attempt to diminish the pre-existing bias that may be placed on the figure. Sunstrum’s work is influenced by her experience in living in different parts of Africa, Southeast Asia, and North Ameirca. Additionally, her work is also influenced by her research in quantum physics , ethnography, and ecology. Suntrum’s work aims to represent issues of colonialism and migration as it centralizes on the African female identity in light of the discourse of postcolonialism and neocolonialism. The undefinable landscapes her subjects are surrounded by aim to represent rural and domestic environments alongside systems of control.

Work Below, Respectively: Rider, 2020| Wallflower, 2018| Garden Girl, 2022| Bogeyman, 2018