I was born and raised in South Africa where I received my BA(FA) at they University of South Africa. Since moving to the States I have shown my work in solo and group exhibitions nationally. I create Sculpture and assemblage work from multi layers of charcoal drawings, paper and found objects. My art is clearly a reflection of my provenance with the merger of colonial Victorian elements and African folklore. As a child I was wrapped in the sounds and smells of the bush and I am still haunted by its many folk tales, fables and by its spiritual, mysterious deities and gods.

I prefer to use non traditional materials to celebrate a non western cultural tradition. I use paper and fabric consciously breaking away from the hard materials and large scales of traditional sculpture. I deliberately rejects those masculine materials and shapes for feminine ones. I exchanged my welder for a needle and tread to assemble my sculptures. By using haunting animistic images I contain the movement between the natural and supernatural, a basic assumption of African folklore. A journey is created into an enchanted universe that also has the reality of this world.

The viewer can transcend into a world of pristine innocence of carrousels, paper dolls, fables and dark promises of forgotten magic. Which is my intentions, “I cannot forget the many native songs and stories from my youth that lurk in my childhood memories of innocence and pure naivete and in my art I try to preserve this world”