ARTIST STATEMENT
Body of Work Name: Re-imagine
Elements of nature, the movement of bodies, colours, shapes, textures, and tastes — these are what fill our memories and fuel our need to describe creatively.
Describing emotive memories can be like recalling a dream; words and images seem to disintegrate as we reach for them. This is because, in order to remember them, they must be re-experienced.
Although the details of our individual experiences differ, the feeling of returning to a memory is something we can share.
By visually re-imagining my own experiences, I’m inviting the viewer to participate in the process of memory itself.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
I am a Cape Town-based artist. My art is inspired by the rich diversity of shapes, colours, tones, and interactions that make up my lived experience — the things that stir in me a desire to capture and communicate.
I believe we share a common primal language, and that visual experience can ignite memories of that language within us.
My art is an invitation to share a moment — to participate in a silent conversation between expression and experience.
Through abstract expression, my work explores the beauty of the ordinary. It aims to evoke a sense of familiarity in the viewer — not through the recognition of objects, but through a shared visceral experience.
Every viewer, and every viewing, will yield a different response. It is this diversity of visual experiences that drives the conversation that connects us.
This, I believe, is the critical function of art.
