The sewing shop

In 1980, Donné studied Fine Arts for two years at the Technikon Witwatersrand, then, in 1982, she set up an art workshop with Dumasani Mabaso in Johannesburg. In 1985, she was a trainee at Ateliers Varan in South Africa and Paris and was part of the creation of the Direct Cinema Workshop. From then and on, she worked in several films in South Africa and abroad up to 2011, for instance, she worked on the documentaries of Emanuelle Bidou, Ramadan Suleman or André Van In. Donné now works as an artist represented by the Art Eye Gallery in Johannesburg and she's currently teaching art to children.