About me
I was born in 1981 and grew up on a farm in the Eastern Cape. I am a full-time freelance artist and live on a smallholding north of Pretoria with my husband, mother, two kittens, three dogs, and an incalculable amount of chickens.
I studied visual art at the University of South Africa, and after attending short courses in painting, drawing, computer graphics, and children's book illustration, I received a postgraduate diploma in museum and heritage studies from the University of Pretoria. I hold a Master's degree in Visual Art from Unisa. ​​Since 2008 I have worked as a part-time freelance illustrator for major publishing companies including Tafelberg, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Shuter & Shooter, and Pearson, and contributed to over 300 textbooks and readers published in seven Southern African countries.
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My artworks form part several collections. I have presented five solo exhibitions, three shared solo exhibitions, and taken part in over forty group shows. My works have been awarded places in Absa l’Atelier, Sasol New Signatures, The Sanlam Portrait Award, and the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Award. I was named one of ArtBank’s most prolific women artists in 2024 and one of the ten most on-the-rise South African artists on Art.co.za’s 2023 Watchlist. I am currently working towards several group exhibitions while I teach artists individually, write tutorial material for Unisa, and adjudicate art competitions on national level. Somewhere between all this I try to find time to be a wife, daughter, sister, aunt, furbaby mom, friend, and reluctant homesteader.
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Awards
2024, ArtBank's prolific women artists, Department of Sport, Arts and Culture
2022, Art.co.za's Watchlist 2023, 10 of the most on-the-rise artists in South Africa
2009, Best Student, Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria
2005, Student of the year, Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of South Africa
1999, Student of the year, Belgravia Art School, East London
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Solo exhibitions
2024, Spirit Place, Association of Arts, Pretoria
2024, A Glass Darkly, KZNSA, Durban
2020, Fables of the Mind, Association of Arts, Pretoria
2018, Ducks in a Row, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2015, S(h)elves (MVA Student Exhibition), Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
Shared solo exhibitions
2023, Hidden with Liezel Luneburg, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2022, Under the Surface with Philip Badenhorst and Gwenneth Miller, White River Gallery, White River
2022, Ordinary Light with Melissa Tabisher, art.b, Bellville
Group exhibitions
2025 (upcoming), Omgekeerd, Potchefstroom
2025 (upcoming) Hive, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria
2025 (upcoming), Windows, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2025 (upcoming), Arts Alive, Pretoria
2025, Members Exhibition, Pretoria Arts Association, Pretoria
2024, Uncurated, art.b, Bellville
2024, Proximity, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
2023, Bird's Eye View, Artbox, Pretoria
2023, Groot Voël, Trent Gallery Powder Room, Pretoria
2023, Spier LightArt Festival, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
2023, WOLF. ESEL. ELF. Association of Arts, Pretoria
2022, Idioom/Idiom, Johann van Heerden Art Gallery, Pretoria
2022, Doodles, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2022, Love in Fine Art, Foxwood House Theatre, Johannesburg
2022, The Association of Arts Pretoria’s 75th birthday Exhibition, ArtsPTA, Pretoria
2022, An Experiential of Musshero(i)ns, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2022, Tiny Treasures, art.b, Bellville
2021, Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards Top 100, City of Ekurhuleni, Online
2021, Folds & Faults, Curate.A.Space and UFS Art Gallery, Bloemfontein
2021, Affordable Art Fair, Edg2020, Online
2020, Folds & Faults, Curate.A.Space and UFS Art Gallery, Online
2020, Winged Creatures, Johann van Heerden Art Gallery, Pretoria
2020, Affordable Art, Association of Arts, Pretoria
2020, The Feast of St Valentine – The Art of Love. Association of Arts, Pretoria
2019, Inspired by Inktober, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg
2019, Sanlam Portrait Award – Portrait 100, AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2019, Ophelia, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2018, Art as Destination, CSIR International Conference Centre, Pretoria
2018, Indestructible, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2012, Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria
2009, Absa L’Atelier Finalists Exhibition, Johannesburg
2009, Absa L’Atelier Entries Exhibition, Pretoria
2009, Dystopia, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Belgium
2009, Candy Coated, Magpie Gallery, Pretoria
2009, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Exhibition, Alliance Française, Pretoria
2008, Intervention, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
2006, Ekurhuleni Finalists Exhibition, Pretoria
2005, Unisa Final Year Visual Art Students Exhibition, Pretoria
2005, Art on paper, Standard Bank Arts Festival, Grahamstown
2004, Art on paper, Standard Bank Arts Festival, Grahamstown
2004, Lady Grey Annual Easter Exhibition, Lady Grey
2003, Lady Grey Annual Easter Exhibition, Lady Grey
Permanent Collections
Art Bank of South Africa
South African Military Hospital Art Collection
The Nando's Art Collection
Unisa Official Academic Portrait Collection
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Projects, commissions and employment
2025, Tutorial writer for Unisa's Department of Art & Music, Pretoria
2025, Adjudicator for the National Championships of Visual Arts, Pretoria
2024 - 2025, Artist for Spier & Nando's Creative Block Project, Johannesburg
2023 - 2024, Mentor for the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC)'s Presidential Economic Stimulus Program's (PESP) Mentorship Program, Gauteng and Free State
2023, Official portrait painter for Unisa, Pretoria
2022, Commissioned artist for KykNet's Nataniël.Erik.Elf, Pretoria
2022, Official portrait painter for Unisa, Pretoria
​2011, Technical assistant for Dr Gwenneth Miller's D Litt et phil exhibition TRANSCODE at Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
2009, Curatorial assistant for Dystopia, curated by Dr Elfriede Dreyer. Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Belgium
2009, Administrative assistant at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery, Pretoria
2006 - 2008, Administrative assistant at Unisa Department of Art & Music, Pretoria
2006, Curatorial assistant for Enviroserve's WasteArt Exhibition, curated by Dr Wendy Ross. Johannesburg
2004 - 2005, Assistant art and design teacher, Lady Grey Arts Academy
2000 - 2003, Studio manager, Potter's Place, Jeffreys Bay
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Education
2017, Masters’ Degree in Visual Art, Unisa, Pretoria. Cum laude
2009, Advanced Diploma in Heritage and Museum Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
2009, Children’s Book Illustrations course, Centre for Comic, Illustrative & Book Arts, Stellenbosch
2009, Short Course in Painting, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria
2008, Short Course in Drawing, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria
2008, Short Course in Computer Graphics, Unisa, Pretoria
2005, Bachelors of Visual Arts, Unisa, Pretoria. Cum Laude
1999, Matriculate at Grens High, East London
1999, Belgravia Art School, East London.