These paintings are all linked by a theme of gender and gender-based violence. A lot of my work addresses gender-based themes by default: if the medium is the message, […]
Category: Exhibition Notes
Firepool
This was an exhibition waiting to happen. The moment I heard the word “fire pool” back in December 2013, I thought: I want to paint that. I work predominantly in […]
How and why I started painting cityscapes
The text in most of the cityscapes refers to roads, and there is a good reason for this. Johannesburg is a city of cars, and all of this art was […]
The Nguni Series
Think pop art meets 18th century English farm animal portraits meets 19th century naturalists’ notebooks meets social history. There’s a certain irony in placing cattle in a cityscape, but then […]
Car City: A love triangle
The car I drive originally catalysed all of this art through the Pulse of the City campaign, and continues to inspire it in other ways. When I am looking for […]
Swimming at Night
During the summer months over the past three years I have swum in my parents’ pool in the evenings. From the water I could see the city to the south. […]
The Cityscape Series
The cityscapes are paintings not so much of Johannesburg itself but how I feel about the place where I have spent most of my life. I’m a child of the […]
How (and why) I started painting with lipstick
Among the many things I do is speaking. Connectedness is a theme I explore in my talks discussing the digital self, online identity and the strange set of coincidences that […]
The Zoo City Series
Lauren Beukes’ award-winning science fiction novel Zoo City has exerted a strong influence on my work. Set in Hillbrow, the zoo city of the title, it features characters mysteriously attached […]