2021

Choice
Shed snake skin and epoxy
154 cm x 44 cm

This delicate arrangement of shed snakeskins represents the artist’s personal experience growing up in the church, which was a restricted, programmed, and judgemental environment. The dress is an exact replica of the artist’s original baptism dress and is also hanging on its original hanger.

The new crazy normal
Photography
50 cm x 67,5 cm

A story of resiliency
Fired clay (bisque)
Installation: 20 cm x 200 cm x 80 cm

This clay installation draws inspiration from the resilient spirit of destitute South Africans during the Covid-19 pandemic and acknowledges their fight for survival amidst a humanitarian crisis.

Pandemic
Mixed media
92 cm x 88 cm

This mixed-media artwork tells the story of the artist’s experience and impressions of living through a global Pandemic, especially as it continues to affect our world today and is no longer just an episode from history books. 

Cultivating our Unbecoming: with Gabrielle Youngleson and Johno Mellish (2021)
Diasec
66,5 cm x 76,5 cm

This work was made during hard lockdown, pre-vaccine when the artist was locked in with their grandmother, Gabrielle Youngleson, who had just turned 90. Johno Mellish captured the photograph through the window. The photograph describes the mutual precarity created by the pandemic, a precarity that continues to be so through escalating inequality and the deepening of the climate crisis.

Forward: A Manifesto
Plastic bags
124,5 cm x 88,5 cm

This artwork is a metatextual manifesto that reflects on the historical role of the manifesto and the need for this specific manifesto created by the artist at this moment in the everunfolding story of humanity. Forward: A manifesto draws from the archive to inform our response to the uncertainties of today.

Paloceae Lupantozoa Multimedia
oil on canvas
augmented reality interaction
53 cm x 63 cm