About

My sculptural practice reflects on my place within the cycles of transformation that shape landscapes over time. Working with kiln-formed glass, I make amorphous forms through casting techniques inspired by geological formations. My artistic practice reflects on my experience of growing up in South Africa near the Magaliesberg, where the surrounding landscape cultivated my interest in geological formations as ancient vessels that embody time and memory. Geological formations reflect the vast timescales of the Earth and show how fleeting our human lifespans are. While humans are temporal beings with fleeting lifespans, our actions increasingly destabilise ecological and geological processes.

Currently, I am a PhD researcher at Hasselt University and PXL-MAD Research, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). My research investigates (trans)formation as an artistic methodology and confronts the ethical paradox of artistic practice in the Anthropocene, as artists depend on the extractive systems they critique. My research engages with the abstract nature of landscape change, which unfolds across vast temporal and physical scales, making its consequences difficult to grasp and experience. Drawing parallels between glassmaking and geological formation, my practice frames kiln-formed glass as an accelerated geological process that compresses deep-time transformations into perceptible human timescales. Working with contaminated waste glass and sand casting, I embrace contamination as an aesthetic and conceptual force that embodies the volatility of disrupted landscapes. The resulting sculptures become thinking models that encapsulate extraction, transformation, and contamination, exploring how the complex, immersive scale of Anthropogenic landscape change can be materially sensed and experienced.