About the Artist

I am a storyteller. My work speaks to histories that are difficult heavy—trauma, loss, and the violence inflicted on Black bodies across generations—but I approach them with a sensitivity that allows for both nuanced readings. Central to my practice is the examination of intergenerational trauma, where personal memory and public memory meet, and where silence has long tried to erase pain.

By juxtaposing the experiences of my grandfather with my own, I expose Black pain as a continuous thread—stretching from apartheid into contemporary South Africa—still silenced by denialism that enacts new forms of violence on the Black body. My work voices this pain, refusing erasure, and insists on remembrance.

Family history is the backbone of my practice. I return to the Eastern Cape, to its landscapes, to the stories passed down by my grandmother, to the wisdom of the women in my family, and even to the truths that come to me in dreams. These stories—whether whispered, lived, or dreamt—anchor me in who I am and where I come from.

Material wealth is not plentiful where my family is from but I investigate beauty within my culture, where minimalism is not about lack but about living fully with what is at hand. In this way, art reflects life: we build, we eat, we survive, we create. My process is one of chiseling, reshaping, searching for the form that can carry the depth of what I want to say.

I do not claim that my art offers solutions. The act of making is itself cathartic: a journey of healing, a confrontation with hidden truths, and a transformation of silence into voice. Through art, I carve space for stories to be told, remembered, and witnessed.