contemporary
artist

My practice explores weaving, painting and assemblage as unruly, speculative processes of unmaking and remaking. Rooted in the intuitive and the tactile, it unfolds through bodily experiments with foraged and surplus materials – threads, textiles, plastic, detritus – that carry their own histories of use, neglect and care.

For me, weaving is not simply a technique but a philosophy: a way of living and thinking that honours slowness, repetition, ritual and the transformative potential of what’s been overlooked. Each work becomes a site of negotiation between form and formlessness, holding and release, structure and collapse.

The embodied rhythms of caregiving and mothering that are encapsulated by acts of nurturing and expanding, underpin my process, allowing my works to unravel and remake material worlds. Makeshift constructions transgress disciplinary boundaries: painting becomes textile, textile becomes installation, and rooms become looms. These large-scale spatial forms hover on the edge of disintegration, reflecting both the fragility and resilience of my home city, Johannesburg.

At the heart of my practice is a belief in the radical, generative power of care. Making becomes an act of reconstitution. A way to stitch together brokenness, trace and retrace connections, and imagine new relational models grounded in softness, resilience and deep listening. These collective models draw on deep feminine knowledge, valuing relationality, ritual, community, intuition, spirituality and being in the body. Collaboration is vital: each encounter with artists, writers or communities generates new entangled forms of knowledge.

Through immersive, sensory installations, I invite audiences to feel their way into other ways of knowing – those that move beneath the surface of reason, embracing ambiguity, slippage and interdependence.

In a world unravelling, I make to remember how to hold things together – differently.