Artist Statement, Bio and CV.
Education
Current BA Visual Arts – University of South Africa
2012 Bachelor of Commerce Honours Marketing Management – University of Pretoria
2008 Bachelor of Commerce Marketing Management – University of Pretoria
2001 Senior Certificate – Pretoria Boys High School
Conferences/Contributions
Invited artist to present at the conference Digifest08 Unmasked. Art and Design Digital Festival. Organized by Durban University of Technology, Kwazulu- Natal, October 2021.
Exhibitions
Digifest Unmasked. Online Exhibition, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, October 19 - 21 2021
Sasol Signatures Art Competition 2022, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, August 26 – October 2 2022
Awards
UNISA Department of Art and Music Merit award of excellence, 2021
ARP Art residency Project VAA Video Art Awards 3rd edition Top 10 finalist South Africa, 2022
Born in 1983, in Pretoria, where I am currently based. I have completed a Bcom Honours
degree at UP before deciding to pursue a career in the visual arts. I am currently
completing my fourth year of a BA Visual Arts degree at UNISA while working as freelance
visual artist. My practice is characterized by deep personal exploration connected to childhood, cultural identity, memory, mythology, and popular culture. My work draws on universal emotions around loss, anxiety, and struggle.
I try to combine realism with elements of symbolism and abstraction. Through textures, mark making and delicate expressions of the figure and face. My drawings, paintings and video art pieces attempt to weave together both the magical and ephemeral. My work is both hopeful and brooding.
