Artist’s statement
My practice spans wall-based relief, objects, and large-scale, site-responsive installations presented internationally. My work negotiates the line between formal material, visceral inquiry and contextual research. Increasingly, I am engaging with speculative historicism as a means of questioning the structures in which we live. Through an attention to the present moment and place, I imagine alternative pasts and possible futures as a way of deconstructing our social and political systems and our place within them. Architecture, the urban and the found are the fertile ground of the fractions.
An ecological imperative increasingly shapes my use of waste materials, not only as a sustainable choice but as a conceptual strategy. These materials allow for an interrogation into value and use, questioning what is discarded and what is preserved. Since relocating to Cape Town in 2024, I have witnessed materials circulating differently, usefulness is prolonged, and objects carry heightened social and political weight.