About UsI am a privileged 'insider artist'. I was raised in a family with many practising creatives. My mother worked with textiles and constantly drew for her own pleasure. My uncle, a tetraplegic with partial use of his hands, created glowing, reverent religious paintings.
I studied Fine Art at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town, South Africa. My early work ponders the fractured relationship of an individual to herselves (micro/internal scale) and the relationship of the individual to the macro scale – human existence, world-state, universality. Until recently I struggled to understand the middle way – the individual in relation to community, the realm she can affect, the one in which exists the power of action. I finally understand the sort of art I want to make: large scale murals in the public space, particularly the city-scape. I want to reforest the city with weird gardens and blood thirsty jungles – sanctuaries from the lifeless grey and foreboding reminders of our ultimate relationship to Nature: she is origin and destination. I have noticed an explosion of artists engaged in re-greening, and I want to join my fellows in attempting to paint/draw/sculpt the life-vine of the world. |