Exhibitions:

2021 Interface, Group exhibition, Online in conjunction with Vrystaat Frynge Festical 2021, to be exhibited physically at the Scaena Foyer, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa in 2022

2021 The Printing Girls Annual Exhibition, Group Exhibition by The Printing Girls Printmaking Collective,

-The Art Room, Parkhurst, Johannesburg, South Africa

-SA Print Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town, south Africa

2021 Phatshoany Henney New Breed Art competition Finalist exhibition, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

2021 SASOL New Signatures Top 100: Discovering South Africa’s Emerging Artists, Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

2021 Untitled, Group exhibition by the Free State Art Collective, Gallery 2, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 Grounded, Group exhibition by the department of Fine Arts at the University of the Free State, Online, Vrystaat Arts Festival vrystroom. URL: https://www.vrystaatkunstefees.co.za/en/grounded-2/

2019Grief and Art: Sites, Games and Melancholy Objects, Solo exhibition towards the completion of the M.A. Fine Arts degree at the University of the Free State, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa

2019 Betwixt and Between, Group Exhibition, Sceana Foyer, Free State Arts Festival Visual Program, Bloemfontein

2019 NeXus, A Transnational Exposition, Bloemfontein, South Africa & Brighton, United Kingdom

-Vrynge festival, Free State Art Festival 1-7 July 2019

-Brighton Jubilee Library, Brighton Pride, Brighton, United Kingdom 29 July- 11 August 2019

2018 Phatshoany Henney New Breed Art competition Finalist exhibition, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

2018 Speaking out and standing up: An exhibition in honour of courageous South African women, Group Exhibition, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein

2018 Leermeesters, Group Exhibition, Gallery on Leviseur, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

2018 SASOL New Signatures Top 100: Discovering South Africa’s Emerging Artists, Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

2018 VROST: Free State Open Studio Tour, Free State Art Festival, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

2017 Bio Art Group Exhibition, Microbiology Department, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

2017 Phatshoany Henney New Breed Art competition Finalist exhibition, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

2016 SASOL New Signatures Top 100: Discovering South Africa’s Emerging Artists, Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa    

2015 A single grain of Rice competition Exhibition, Galerie Metanoïa, Paris, France

2015 ENGRAM, Exhibition show at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley, South Africa

2014 SASOL New Signatures Top 100: Discovering South Africa’s Emerging Artists, Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

Publications

2021 Book cover illustration: Rossouw, M. 2021. Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the cinemakeover in the film- philosophy debate.

2021 Present Paper at SAVAH 35^th Annual Conference, Online. (29 September-2 October 2021)

  Abstract title: Gamified Grief: Video games, artmaking and digital commemorative narrative

2019 Panel member at EDHE Lekgotla, Durban

                  Session: The ideology & declaration: Activating and developing entrepreneurial mindsets

                        Entrepreneurship in Printmaking at tertiary level

Artist Statement:

I work with and combine traditional printing media, drawing and digital drawing in my art practice. My studio research on paper and digital media involve the investigation of personal contemporary grief and bereavement, specifically the individual and collective iterations created and followed in mourning. This interest in death studies is further shared with an interest in video games, and how these two disparate experiences (grief and play) connect in distinctive ways as newly created contemporary practices in mourning.

I investigate the difficult, unique and communicative iterations of contemporary grief on multiple platforms – every day and digital sites – through artworks that are made using traditional as well as contemporary methods. I include experiences of grief relative to personalised sites and places, video game experiences connected to grief and death, as well as contemporary technological devices and other objects associated with personalised grief. These personal experiences are investigated to explore the visual ways in which experiences of loss and trauma have been communicated through the conduits available in technologically-driven societies, and how these new experiences provide novel empathetic experiences of loss.

Areas of research and Art practice:

Memory, Memorialization, Video Games, Grief, Thanatology, Ludology, Loss, Mourning, Site, Melancholy Objects
Drawing, Printmaking, Digital drawing, Silkscreen

XGFK1505 (Printmaking) 

XTKN 1505 (Drawing)

XGFK 1505 (Printmaking)

XTKN 2605 (Drawing)

XBDK 3708 (Fine Arts)

XTKN 3708 (Drawing)

XBDK 4808 (Fine Arts)

XBKE 4808 (Fine Arts Studio Research)

2021 Member of The Printing Girls. A national collective of female printmakers in South Africa

2019 Printmaker for the Platfontein Printing Project in collaboration with the Vrystaat arts Festival and Free State Arts and Health (FSAH)

2018- Member of the Free State Art Collective

Co-judged: Down the Rabbit Hole: Art/Photography Competition, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa