About

I have always been deeply inspired and influenced by comics. As a child I read mostly American comics, which being written in English, and me being Afrikaans, I couldn’t understand or access the narrative, so I simply invented my own text. Years later I would reread the same comics and be completely surprised at how utterly different the narratives were. Whilst the originals tended to be humorous and moralising, mine were crazy and off the wall! What those comics did do, however, was to push me into exploring the visual as a form of narrative, rather than static imagery. I  began to draw prolifically, and my very supportive parents “paid” for my artworks with sweets – a great incentive to continue. I even took tried bible stories as potential narratives, but my illustrations were considered blasphemous.

I also spent a lot of time as a child in my father’s dental lab where I was able to experiment with wax and plaster. That experimental approach to trying just about anything is still an important part of my methodology today.
I work with ideas that tend to take many forms, from the one-liner to more complete dream-like visualisations. The ideas themselves tend not to be specific to one medium of the other, but it soon becomes clear as to whether they will be better expressed as a sculpture, an animation, or a painting. I tend therefore, not to draw sharp distinctions between my various modes of practice, as they all share the same conceptual and imaginative processess.

Exhibitions

My first local solo took place on Cape Town in 2005, and my first international solo in Berlin in 2008.