I am a graduate from the University of South Africa. Exhibiting locally and internationally.
My work consists mainly of ‘multiples’ in both ceramics and drawings on paper. Making references to arts own artificiality, (like Rodin and his use of repetitive moulds to create different scenarios) my current work deals with the use of repetitive forms within an installation context and usually exhibited as such. When these very works are then placed individually, in a different context, one can disregard the initial story that I tell in order to celebrate and find a new "use" for an already existing work or form.
I work with childhood memories and everyday current events, using techniques of layering, revealing and disintegration. The key reason I work with chilhood toys/dolls/puppets is because the space of childhood is marked by open-endedness, a freedom of discovery with unfixed meaning. Within the realm of childhood there is not yet an absolute - anything is possible and it is within this context that I place my current work.
In 2013 I won the "Talks by Artists" award in South Korea and attend their 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale which included the participation in a Mentoring Camp with ceramist Li Xiaofeng (China) for the month October.
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
1993 Khoi/Dutch Chess Set. California Institute of Technology
Ned Munger Collection
2010 ‘Sw.e.et 16’ William Humphreys Gallery, Kimberley
2012 ‘Ticky Tacky’ Corobrik Pretoria Art Museum
2014 "Cross to Bare" Tatham Gallery Pietermaritzberg
AWARDS
1992 Corobrik W Cape Sculpture (Nationals) "War Games"
Miniatures Fagan Street Gallery Somerset West
1st Biennale Corobrik Limpopo
2009 Craft Awards Pretoria 3rd place W Cape
Ceramics SA (Regionals) Premier Award W Cape
2011 Ceramics SA (Regionals) PKF International Award W Cape
2012 Vuleka Artb (Merit collaboration) W Cape
"Whose art is it anyway?"
Ceramics SA (Regionals) Cape Gallery Award W Cape
2013 Ceramics SA (Regionals) PKF International Award W Cape
7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale “Talks by Artists
2014 Lovell Gallery Tranyr Finalist
Vuleka Artb (2nd Place) W Cape
"Chapter 6"
2015 Vuleka Artb (2nd Place) W Cape
"Promethian Shame"
2016 Vuleka Artb (Winner of the Conrad Theys Prize) W Cape
"Worth Less"
PUBLICATIONS
2015 Representations of Otherness and Resistance: University of the Free State
JOHANNES STEGMANN ART GALLERY
2016 Cover. Ceramics SA Magazine Autumn Edition
My work consists mainly of ‘multiples’ in both ceramics and drawings on paper. Making references to arts own artificiality, (like Rodin and his use of repetitive moulds to create different scenarios) my current work deals with the use of repetitive forms within an installation context and usually exhibited as such. When these very works are then placed individually, in a different context, one can disregard the initial story that I tell in order to celebrate and find a new "use" for an already existing work or form.
I work with childhood memories and everyday current events, using techniques of layering, revealing and disintegration. The key reason I work with chilhood toys/dolls/puppets is because the space of childhood is marked by open-endedness, a freedom of discovery with unfixed meaning. Within the realm of childhood there is not yet an absolute - anything is possible and it is within this context that I place my current work.
In 2013 I won the "Talks by Artists" award in South Korea and attend their 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale which included the participation in a Mentoring Camp with ceramist Li Xiaofeng (China) for the month October.
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
1993 Khoi/Dutch Chess Set. California Institute of Technology
Ned Munger Collection
2010 ‘Sw.e.et 16’ William Humphreys Gallery, Kimberley
2012 ‘Ticky Tacky’ Corobrik Pretoria Art Museum
2014 "Cross to Bare" Tatham Gallery Pietermaritzberg
AWARDS
1992 Corobrik W Cape Sculpture (Nationals) "War Games"
Miniatures Fagan Street Gallery Somerset West
1st Biennale Corobrik Limpopo
2009 Craft Awards Pretoria 3rd place W Cape
Ceramics SA (Regionals) Premier Award W Cape
2011 Ceramics SA (Regionals) PKF International Award W Cape
2012 Vuleka Artb (Merit collaboration) W Cape
"Whose art is it anyway?"
Ceramics SA (Regionals) Cape Gallery Award W Cape
2013 Ceramics SA (Regionals) PKF International Award W Cape
7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale “Talks by Artists
2014 Lovell Gallery Tranyr Finalist
Vuleka Artb (2nd Place) W Cape
"Chapter 6"
2015 Vuleka Artb (2nd Place) W Cape
"Promethian Shame"
2016 Vuleka Artb (Winner of the Conrad Theys Prize) W Cape
"Worth Less"
PUBLICATIONS
2015 Representations of Otherness and Resistance: University of the Free State
JOHANNES STEGMANN ART GALLERY
2016 Cover. Ceramics SA Magazine Autumn Edition