Born in 1977 and raised into a middle-class Afrikaans speaking family, and I started my life’s journey in a small town called Fochville in Gauteng, South Africa.
In 2000, I obtained a National Higher Diploma in Fine Art at PE Technicon (now the NNMU). More than a decade ago I started working with rubber and particularly repurposed rubber inner-tubes, and in 2012 added embroidery to my list of preferred media.
Ever since our prehistoric ancestors captured the images of the world around them onto rock surfaces, we have been enthralled by images. Today, we can scarcely bring ourselves to throw away old photographs of loved ones. Such is our attachment to the quasi-voodoo action that what we do when we change the photos somehow affects the person. I shatter this self-imposed taboo by defacing enlarged vintage photographs with mask-like embroidered rubber inlays, imbuing the work with notions of identity in terms of culture, heritage and society.
