Precarious Landscapes

2021 - 2022

Master of Arts, PXL-MAD

Sculpture Department

Sub-departments: Glass and Ceramics

With a Master Mind scholarship awarded by The Flemish Ministry of Education and Training

This Master’s project explores my sculptural practice through the mediums of glass, ceramics, and printmaking, focusing on their materiality in order to create organic forms inspired by natural and geological formations. By engaging with casting techniques, I investigate how materials embody traces of interaction, memory, and transformation, drawing parallels between the embedded histories within sculptural bodies and my own lived experiences. Growing up in South Africa, I reflect on personal and collective narratives, layering printed imagery with sculptural forms to evoke open-ended stories that speak to themes of memory, loss, and ecological precarity. Guided by the concept of assemblages, I construct fractured landscapes that interweave traces of history, personal and collective concerns, and the fleeting nature of human existence within the vast timescales of the Earth. This body of work seeks to articulate a material vocabulary that conveys the layered and interconnected nature of memory, identity, and environmental change.