Line drawing Illustrations
2018 Drawings
processwork
Paintings
2017 Painting workshop
a tribute to women
in celebration and in protest
The Greeks thought the pomegranate fruit to be a gift of love that is continually inviting, symbolising fertility, abundance, and the arrival of spring. In art, the pomegranate alludes to the beauty and exuberance of the vagina with the external representing the ovary and the seeds, the ova cells. And during the Renaissance period, the juice of the pomegranate, eternally giving, was seen as the blood of Christ as well as menstruation. Given the history of representation with this particular fruit, I chose the pomegranate as a celebration of the vagina and women.
Red legs is inspired by the Rape Culture phenomenon that we, as South Africans, are constantly exposed to and bombarded with. Drawing inspiration from artists like Tracey Emin and Penny Siopis and their themes of trauma, sexuality, objectification, and femininity, I have used my work as personal responses to my own encounters and trauma within this Rape Culture. In a sense, my work is treated as private performances; with every stroke of my brush and smear from my hands done in complete freedom and in response to memories and mixed emotions.
