Qualifications:
Masters in Fine Arts Degree (Cum Laude) at the University of Johannesburg 2013-2015.
Level 2 in Wood Machining and Cabinet-Making at Furntech, George 2005
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts Degree at the University of Stellenbosch South Africa (2000-2003).
Work Experience:
Professional Artist, 2015 – to present
Part-time lecturer in Drawing Skills for Higher Certificate students at Inscape, 2023
Part-time lecturer in Fabrication for 1st year Bachelor of Design students at Inscape, 2021 & 2022
Registrar at Zeitz Mocaa Museum, 2019 – 2020
Exhibitions Manager at Museum of African Design (MOAD), 2014 – 2015
Art Curator for Telkom SA Ltd, 2007 – 2013
Gallery Assistant at David Krut Publishing and Arts Resource, 2006 – 2007
Artist’s assistant at Dionysus Sculpture Works, 2006
Solo exhibitions:
Future Mythology at Everard Read Cape Town from 11 May to 1 June 2022
The Important of Forgetting: a timeline of existence as part of the CUBICLE Series at Everard Read Cape Town / Circa Gallery from 5 to 17 August 2019
Archival Sky at Hazard Gallery from 14 October to 12 November 2017
The Coded Cloud at Fried Contemporary from 2 March to 1 April 2017
Flux at Hazard Gallery from 12 November to 10 January 2016
Ontluikende on/ge-mak exhibition at FADA Gallery from 8 January to 6 February 2015
Group exhibitions:
EVERARD READ SUMMER EXHIBITION – The Other’s Warmth, Everard Read Cape Town
Collide exhibition, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, USA
I, Ruby: vol 1. exhibition at Ruby Projects, Houston Texas, USA
Sculpture on the Cliffs exhibition at Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival, South Africa
JVR Auction, Cape Town
INDEX artist at RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
K4 exhibition at KKNK from 1 – 9 April 2023
Amalgam exhibition at World Art Gallery from 2 – 23 February 2023
Seeds of the fig exhibition at Twee Gezellen Wine Farm, curated by Reservoir from 26 November 2022 to 29 April 2023
SEDUCTION | Group Exhibition from 8 to 31 December 2022
RESHAPE 22 for Latitudes Online from 14 September to 14 October 2022
NFT Auction at SA Innovation Summit on 28 September 2022
SPRING | A Group Show at Everard Read Franschoek from 10 to 24 September 2022
Art in the Auditorium for Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival from 10 to 19 June 2022
JVR Art Auction in June 2022
Interferences exhibition at Brutal Curation Gallery, Cape Town in February 2022
Motion Bandits exhibition at Gallery One11, Cape Town in October 2021
A Medley of Moods in Miniature exhibition curated by Dineke van Der Walt, July 2021 as part of the Klein Karoo Virtual Gallery.
Cash n Carry at Brutal Curation Gallery, Cape Town in March 2021
JVR Art Auction from 13 to 16 October 2020
Site Visit an online exhibition by L’Air Arts in Paris from October 2020
Embodying Hir-self an online exhibition at Latitudes Art Fair from 10 August 2020
Phantasmagoria: Winter Online Exhibition by Lizamore & Associates Contemporary Art Gallery from June to August 2020
SculptX Fair in Johannesburg in September 2019
Something Other – A diversion in the career of the artist at No End Contemporary from 4 to 17 July 2019
Sculpture on the Cliffs at Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival from 7 June 2019 to June 2020
L’Air Arts Open studio exhibition at FIAP in Paris on 27 October 2018
‘A very important thought’ exhibition at No End Contemporary from 23 August to 22 September 2018
TACIT exhibition at Oliewenhuis Museum (Bloemfontein) from 10 July to 26 August 2018
American Express Winter Sculpture Fair 2018 at Nirox Sculpture Park
Jan Cilliers art exhibition from 14 to 19 May 2018
Art & Design Saturday at TMRW Gallery part of Keys Art Mile from 17 April to 8 May 2018
And we heard the colours sound: an abstract group exhibition at Lizamore Gallery from 1 February to 24 February 2018
Tectonic at Hazard Gallery from 18 November 2017 to 7 January 2018
35 Years: Trailblazers at Lizamore & Associates from 31 August to 23 September 2017
All The Voices, No End Contemporary at Fried Contemporary Gallery from 31 August to 23 September 2017
Urban Axis exhibition at PS Art Space Perth, Australia from 17 June to 22 July 2017
I Buy Quality/Yo Compro Calidad exhibition at Matadero Madrid from 16 June to 2 July 2017
Greed Gone Mad and Fear Got Bought at Absa Gallery ( Jhb) 10 July to 4 August 2017
Greed Gone Mad and Fear Got Bought at Klein Karoo National Arts Festival in Oudtshoorn April 2017
(Don’t) Look Back exhibition at Gallery Momo Cape Town 23 March to 22 April 2017
TACIT traveling exhibition at Pretoria Art Museum in 2017 as well as UWC Gallery (Potchefstroom) & Humphrey’s Art Gallery (Kimberley) 2016
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair 2016 with Hazard Gallery
Turbine Art Fair 2016 with No End Contemporary (Johannesburg)
Public sculpture at The Cosmopolitan in Maboneng, Johannesburg from June 2016
Empty Space: An Overview of KKNK 2016 at ABSA Gallery (Johannesburg) from 8 – 27 May 2016
In the midst of things by Curated by_Collective at Klein Karoo National Art festival in Oudtshoorn from 24 – 30 March 2016
Barclays L’Atelier exhibition at Absa Gallery (Johannesburg) 15 July to 28 August 2015
Progeny at Fried Contemporary Gallery (Pretoria) 25 April to 23 May 2015
Residencies:
L’AiR Arts Residency (Paris, France) funded by the Villa Trust from 16 October to 30 October 2018
El Ranchito Matadero Madrid (Spain) awarded and funded by The Eduardo Villa Trust from 8 May to 18 June 2017
Funded residency at The Falconer Foundry (KwaZulu-Natal) from March to April 2017
Nirox Art Residency at Nirox Sculpture Park from 17 May to 17 June 2016
Collections:
Nirox Sculpture Park Collection, Eduardo Villa Trust Collection , The Falconer Foundry Collection, international and local private collections
Awards:
Nominated for the Norval Sovereign African Art prize 2023
Telkom Group CEO Award
Telkom Leading Light Awards