Born South Africa 1970.
Currently residing in the United Kindom.

My practice is is based on a vast system of themes and references relating to the politics and poetics of space and to the processes of regeneration and degeneration.

Working in a variety of media and materials my current work is an attempt to conjure up ‘landscapes’ that are positioned somewhere between utopian dreamscapes and fractured dystopian geographies.
Material and process are key to my practice. The collision between organic and industrial, dry and wet and water based and oil based materials create dense topographies that are born out of physically demanding and time consuming processes. These working processes I have come to view as processes of sedimentation and excavation that allude to cycles of the natural world and to the compounded history of culture.

Through research, material experimentation and working process I hope to achieve a visual complexity and physical density in the work which are equal to the content itself, which ranges over sources as diverse as history, ecology, landscape and its representation, utopia/dystopia, identity, mortality, mythology and alchemy. … Read More