Visual Artist, Sculptor, Kiln-Glass Specialist
I am a South African artist and researcher based in Hasselt, Belgium, since 2021. My academic training spans South Africa, the Netherlands, and Belgium and has been supported by multiple competitive scholarships such as: The Flemish Ministry of Education and Training: Master Mind Scholarship, The Zuid Afrika Huis: Studiefonds voor Zuid-Afrikaanse Studenten in Nederland, The National Research Foundation South Africa: NRF Full-Time B-Tech Block Grant Scholarship. I hold two master’s degrees in Fine Arts, both awarded with distinction, specialising in glass and sculpture, obtained from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa, and PXL-MAD, Belgium.
With over a decade of technical and artistic experience in glass, I have participated in numerous international exhibitions. I also have experience in artistic education, having worked as a part-time lecturer and technical assistant in the Glass Department at TUT and, in 2024, as a temporary substitute lecturer at PXL-MAD, where I guided students in the glass studio. Currently, I am a doctoral candidate at Hasselt University in collaboration with PXL-MAD MAD Research. My research is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), reflecting my ongoing commitment to research in the arts.
Material & Landscape
The tension between material requirements for artistic creation and environmental responsibility raises significant ethical questions. The exploration of a kiln-formed glass practice within this context offers the potential to examine and reimagine human-material relationships within the current geological era. The parallels between kiln-formed glass and geological processes, particularly the transformation of silica-based substances through heat, time, gravity, and viscosity, resulting in formations, offer physical, metaphorical and poetic insights into processes of transformation that shape the Earth.
