Visiting lecturer, artist talks, conferences
2023
creative gatherings on women’s work as artistic practice
Curator Candice Allison and I convened a series of creative gatherings/talk around the theme of ‘women’s work as artistic practice’ at the Origins Centre museum, Wits. 25 artist-women and artist-mothers from South Africa and the global South participated in gatherings that were provocative, generative, & vulnerable.
2023
Bev Butkow – thread, plastic, and murmurating masses
Origins Centre Museum, University of Witwatersrand
2022
10 rules for living a creative life (and remaining relevant)
2023
ContextileTALKS 2022
https://womencreativesgathering.webflow.io/events1/1-material-uprising
2025
Artists’ Masterclass – The Art of the Biography and Artist Statement, Johannesburg
2024
Visiting lecturer and installation/weaving workshop, Norwich University of the Arts, United Kingdom
2021
Virtual Hugs 2021: Creating from Precarious Edges, Wits School of Arts
2019
embodied-entanglements/entangled-embodiments, Material Narratives: Representations of public and private histories in cloth, University of Johannesburg
Wits School of Arts Postgraduate Research Showcase, Wits
2018
Tobetsa: a huddling, Wits
2016
Courting transformation: Textiles and the politics of representation in theConstitutional Court Art Collection, South African Research Chair in Southern African Art and Visual Culture conference, University of Johannesburg
2016
Patchwork Attempts at Transformation: Re-stitching Six Textiles, UNISA School of Arts conference
Interviews
2021
ACASA Triennial – Interview with curator Gcotyelwa Mashiqa
2020
Tactile Visions – Woven
Artist interview with curator Professor Sharlene Kahn
2020
Interview with Bag Factory studio artist Bev Butkow
Collaborations
Working with long-term collaborators continues to guide and expand my creative investigations. Each partnership brings a distinct sensibility that deepens the conversation between people, materials and creative process.
David Mann
David and I work together through text, treating writing as another material in the creative process.
We explore how rhythm, tone and form shape meaning, thereby allowing text to sit alongside the
visual work rather than merely describe it. These conceptual explorations are leading toward a future
artist publication.
Laura de Harde
Laura and I are accountability partners who help each other stay true to our creative and professional
goals. Our exchange is built on radical honesty, shared reflection and generosity. In mirroring each
other’s thinking and experience, we uncover clarity and insight in both our practices.
Henrich Minnie
Through experimental approaches to digital animation and projection, Henrich and I explore the
relationship between digital form and physical material form. Movement, scale, morphing and
transformation become tools to extend my woven and painted abstractions, bringing them into new
hybrid works that blur the boundaries between stillness and motion.
Nidaa Husain
Over many years, Nidaa and I have explored the camera’s potential as both documentation and
creative exploration. The footage we capture reveals gestures, moments, and movements that speak
to my process in layered, intuitive ways, often becoming material for new works.
Cynthia Maxinyane, Menard Hunga, Sharon Maxinyane
My studio assistants work part-time with me, often within our shared living spaces. Their hands, stories and sensibilities are woven directly into the artworks. These collaborative gestures leave traces of our intertwined pathways—visible in the textures and layers of each piece we make together.
Intervention
2025
BodyWeaving, embodied movement intervention, Johannesburg (forthcoming)
2024
collaborative body-weave, experimental intervention, open studio at Contra.Joburg
2019
weaving workshop, Berman project space, Johannesburg
Community involvement