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Tertiary Education
University: Nelson Mandela University
Course: 2013: BTech Fine Art: Sculpture (Cum Laude)
2017: MTech Fine Art: Sculpture
Other Certificates/Courses
2021 -2023: South African Creative Industries Incubator- Arts Accelerator Business Program
2021: 3D Printing Training workshop (Intermediate) (Prof. Sean Poole & eNtsa)
2021: Sculpting in Zbrush - digital sculpting (Milivoj Popovic & Udemy)
2020: 3D Printing Training workshop (Beginners) (Prof. Sean Poole & eNtsa)
2020: Sculpting the Figure workshop (Brian Booth Craig - Hyperrealist sculptor, USA, InSitu)
2014: Professional Practice in the Visual Arts (Art Source)
Awards
● Artist-in-Residence at William Humphreys Art Gallery (February - March 2024)
● Entrepreneur of the Year award 2021-22 for SACII Arts Accelerator Business Program
● NRF Innovation Scholarship award for the years 2015-2016
● NMMU PGRS Scholarship award for the years 2015-2016
● Selector’s Choice & NMMU and Business Chamber’s Chosen Artist Award (Wish You Were
Here National Exhibition (2014)
● Malan Trust Bursary in 2013
● Malan Trust Bursary in 2012
Conference papers
● “Interrupting the monologue of a monument: De-constructing and re-constructing The Horse
Memorial” for the 37th Annual South African Visual Arts History [SAVAH] Conference -
Romancing the Stone: Lithic Ecologies & Hard Places in South African Visual Culture [Breaking
Rock]. September 2022
● “Right-click, create: Craftsmanship and digital 3D technologies in contemporary sculptural
practice” for the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa [DHASA] Conference -
Digital Humanities in Precarious Times. November 2022
Collections
● William Humphreys Art Gallery (2024)
● Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum (2021)
● 99 Loop Art Gallery (2014)
Exhibitions
● “from the Woods to the Soil” solo exhibition at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley (26
March - 15 May 2024)
● “In the Eye of the Beholder” group exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum,
Gqeberha (October 2023 - April 2024)
● Spinning the Golden Thread group exhibition at GFI Art Gallery, Gqeberha (October 2023)
● Looking Up - contribution to the experimental art project Touch Type by The Trinity Sessions, Marcus
Neustetter and Stephen Hobbs at Mandela University Planetarium (October 2023)
● Winter Group Show at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town (July 2023)
● “In the Eye of the Beholder” group exhibition at the National Arts Festival, Albany Museum, Makhanda
(June/July 2023)
● VISIONS & VOICES group exhibition at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town (April 2023)
● Romancing the Stone exhibition at KZNSA Gallery, Durban (September 2022)
● Celebrating Eastern Cape Art exhibition at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
(July/August 2022)
● Decorex Africa 2022 group exhibition with ECDC at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg (July
2022)
● (black) American group exhibition at The Ritz Museum, Jacksonville, FL, USA (June - August 2022)
● Autumn Salon Show at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town (April 2022)
● Arts Accelerator group exhibition at Julie Miller African Art Contemporary, Johannesburg (March 2022)
● Sasol New Signatures 2021 Top 100 exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum (11 November – 09 January 2022)
● Through our eyes: Cultural Exchange – Journey to America exhibition at The Ritz Theatre & Art
Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (October 2021/April 2022)
● SculptX Fair at the Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg (September/October 2021)
● Celebrating Eastern Cape Art exhibition at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
(June/July 2021)
● Not Moving/Let’s Move Exhibition at ArtEC, Port Elizabeth (April 2021)
● Summer Salon show at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town (January 2021)
● Launch exhibition of Corrie Scribante Gallery, Umhlanga Rocks, Durban (January 2021)
● MONOCHROME at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town (December 2020)
● Materiality <> Temporality at Bird Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth (September 2020)
● Through our eyes: Cultural Exchange - Journey to America group exhibition at Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth (December 2019/January 2020
● Summer Season group exhibition at Platform 13 Gallery, Fish Hoek, Cape Town (October 2019/February 2020)
● SculptX group exhibition at the Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg (August/September 2019)
● Configuration group exhibition at GFI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth (August 2019)
● Sculpture & Painting Nelson Mandela University exhibition at the Makhanda National Arts Festival
(June/July 2019)
● Winter Season group exhibition at Platform 13 Gallery, Fish Hoek, Cape Town (May 2019)
● ‘PPC Imaginarium’ National Finalists exhibition at UJ Gallery, Johannesburg (April/May 2019)
● ‘Palate, Plate, Palette’ group exhibition at the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town (April/May 2019)
● ‘The African Art Collective – Autumn Edition’ at The Julie Miller Investment Art Institute, Johannesburg (March/April 2019)
● ‘We Are Present’ group exhibition at the Bird Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth (March 2019)
● ‘The Blushful Hippocrene’ at Knysna Fine Art, Knysna (November 2018/2019)
● ‘Stargarden’ group exhibition at Platform 13 Gallery, Fish Hoek, Cape Town (October 2018/2019)
● Absa L’Atelier 2018 Finalists exhibition at the Absa Gallery, Johannesburg (September 2018)
● SculptX group exhibition at the Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg (August 2018)
● Sasol New Signatures 2018 Finalists exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum (August 2018)
● 99th Annual Exhibition at ArtEC, Port Elizabeth (August 2018)
● NMU Postgraduate Sculpture exhibition with Sarah Walmsley at the Makhanda National Arts Festival (June/July 2018)
● Intersection 100/135 at the Bird Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth (June/July 2018)
● Artbox.Projects New York 1.0 at Stricoff Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA (March 2018)
● Untitled 5.99 group show at 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape (December 2017 – January 2018)
● Summer group show at the Boutique Gallery, Franschhoek, Western Cape (October 2017 – January 2018)
● Summer group show at the Boutique Gallery, Camps Bay, Cape Town (October 2017 – January 2018)
● Paradisiac summer exhibition at The Daniel Kok Galery, Hemel-en-Aarde, Hermanus (October 2017 – January 2018)
● SculptX sculpture fair at The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg (06 September – 08 October 2017)
● “The Art of Making it” solo exhibition at 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town (07 – 23 September 2017)
● Sasol New Signatures 2017 Top 100 exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum (30 August – 08 October 2017)
● Modern Miniatures exhibition at GFI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth (August 2017)
● 98th Annual Exhibition at ArtEC, Port Elizabeth (July/August 2017)
● Emerge exhibition at the Bird Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth (June/July 2017)
● Sculpture & Painting at the Carinus Art Centre, Grahamstown, National Arts Festival (June/July 2017)
● Modern Miniatures exhibition at Trinity Hall, Grahamstown, National Arts Festival (June /June 2017)
● Modern Miniatures exhibition at Art On Target, Port Elizabeth (May/June 2017)
● In The Making group exhibition at ArtEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth (September 2016)
● Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity at the Pratt Institute, Small Canvas Project – New York, USA (May 2016)
● Bird Street Gallery Pop-Up Exhibition for the opening of the American Corner (April 2016)
● Imago Mundi: Map of the New Art, Small Canvas Project – Venice, Italy (September – November 2015)
● Top 100 Finalist in Sasol New Signatures 2015 competition at the Pretoria Art Museum in Pretoria
(September 2015)
● 99 Loop Gallery’s Opening Launch Exhibition, Cape Town (August 2015)
● Top 100 Finalist in Barclay’s L’Atelier 2015 competition at the Absa Gallery in Johannesburg (July 2015)
● NMMU 3D exhibition at the National Arts Festival 2015, Grahamstown (July 2015)
● Wish You Were Here satellite exhibition at the National Arts Festival 2015, Grahamstown (July 2015)
● Wish You Were Here satellite exhibition at William Humphrey’s Art Gallery, Kimberley (March 2015)
● NEWNOWNEXT group exhibition at Galerie NOKO(December 2014 – January 2015)
● Invited artist for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial (October 2014 – January 2015)
● Wish You Were Here exhibition 4 satellite shows around Port Elizabeth (October 2014 – January 2015)
● Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Small Canvas Project South Africa – Rome, Italy (November 2014 – January 2015)
● Selector’s Choice for Wish You Were Here exhibition and NMMU and Business Chamber’s chosen artist award (September 2014)
● Top 100 Finalist in Absa l’Atelier 2014 competition at the Absa Gallery in Johannesburg (August 2014)
● Top 100 Finalist in the Sasol New Signatures 2014 competition at the Pretoria Art Museum (July 2014)
● Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Small Canvas Project South Africa – Treviso, Italy (July – August 2014)
● Parergons of the Divine Virgule group exhibition at the ArtEC Gallery (June 2014)
● For Play ii group exhibition at Underculture Contemporary (December 2013 – January 2014)
● Featured artist in Luciano Benetton Collection Small Canvas Project South Africa Catalogue (2013)
● Top 100 Finalist in the Sasol New Signatures 2013 competition at the Pretoria Art Museum ( July 2013)
● New Signatures Exhibition at the ArtEC Gallery (April 2012)
● The Intrinsic exhibition at the ArtEC Gallery (February 2012