Patrizia Helene Litty is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice spans various media, navigating the intersection of cultural vagabond, feminism and pure joy.
Originally from Europe, Patrizia studied Fine Art at the renowned Blocherer College in Munich during the 1980s. Early in her career, she joined an independent art collective engaged in street art and public installations across The Hague and Berlin—spaces where artistic expression pushed beyond gallery walls and into the city.
In 1992, she relocated to Cape Town, South Africa, where she immersed herself in the nascent world of graphic design for the World Wide Web.
She co-founded ANPA, a contemporary jewellery studio, with her husband. For nearly 25 years, jewellery defined the scope of her creative output—where scale, technical precision, and a meticulous attention to detail were both constraint and signature.
In 2022/3, Patrizia encountered clay—a medium that profoundly shifted her artistic language. Its malleability and openness to spontaneity disrupted her previous way of working. Clay introduced a new way of seeing: one that embraces imperfection, unpredictability, and scale. Her sculptural work now bears the imprint of her detailed past while simultaneously rebelling against it. Each piece holds both structure and surrender—traces of precision interwoven with the unexpected, celebrating the beauty of the unplanned.
Since this pivotal shift, she has pursued intensive masterclasses with renowned international ceramicists to deepen her technical knowledge and expand her creative voice.
She studied sculpture with Cristina Córdova, Michelle Gregor, Adrian Arleo, and Sabine Classen, and explored throwing, firing, and surface techniques with Grace Han, Akira Satake, John Colbeck, Sara Kirschen, Anthony Shapiro, and Lucca Tripaldi.
She studied figurative sculpture at the Accademia del Giglio in Florence, Italy, during winter 2025.
Her practice has been further enriched by artist residencies in Europe and Asia.
She currently studies for an MA in Fine Art at Falmouth University.
She lives and works from her studio south of Cape Town.
Past / CURRENT / upCOMING
—ceramics exhibitions
SOLO STUDIOS, ART FESTIVAL
24 October to 26 October 2025; Riebeek Valley
KALEIDOSCOPES
30 August to 20 September 2025, Association of Arts, Pretoria
ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION, curated
Ceramics Southern Africa – Western Cape
26 July to 7 August 2025, Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town
100% DESIGN
24 July to 27 July 2025; Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
GROUNDED PRACTICE, curated by Tamlin Blake
26 May to 14 Sept 2025, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, South Africa
SIMPLICITY
Winter 2025, ANPA jewellery & fine art gallery, Kalk Bay, South Africa