This body of work combines a somatic, poetic response to the Anthropocene with the hybrid nature of my own cultural identity descended from white South African people. The work emphasises the need for repair and reparation within a global context, as well as looking at my own origins in the colonising political system of Apartheid. In investigating issues relating to the Anthropocene I have been inspired by theorist Donna Haraway in her book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016). Her theory of "Situated Knowledges" locates my own displacement within the broader environmental crisis that is predicted to lead to a dramatic increase in asylum seekers by the year 2050. My practice is process-driven, using a wide range of found and discarded materials to symbolically repair, heal, rebuild and make amends. Through the use of paper, oil paint, acrylic paint, fabric, wire, string, paper-clay and found objects I engage ideas of aggregation, excavation and repair.
The collection of works includes a reference to Planet City (2020), a 15-minute video created by speculative fiction writer and architect Liam Young. Young proposes a solution to our global crisis, exploring the potential of extreme densification which involves 10 billion people migrating to one hyper-dense metropolis, surrendering the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. The paintings and masks represent the continuous festival process through Planet City on a 365-day loop.

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Toxic Landscape - The Repair Begins, 2021  

mixed media  

1800 x 1300 x 1200 mm

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Toxic Landscape - The Repair Begins, 2021  

mixed media  

1800 x 1300 x 1200 mm

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There were remnants of the previous life outside the city, 2021  

mixed media  

900 x 600 mm

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We were never close but, in this place we would find something familiar, 2021  

mixed media

900 x 600 mm

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The festival continued 365 days in a loop, 2021

mixed media  

900 x 600 mm

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In an act of submission, the glacier became a human form, 2021  

mixed media  

900 x 600 mm

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Abstract 1, 2021  

acrylic paint, wire  

1000 x 800 mm

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Magnetised expats, 2021  

cement, metal, mixed media  

1000 x 800 mm

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