13 March 2026 My first visit to the site after our holiday was early January and I found that it fell onto the forest floor. My dad passed on that day, and I have not visited the site since. I did not have the motivation or inspiration, and asked myself if this was about a […]
I want to exhibit the coastal rubbings, which I made in December 2025 at a members’ exhibition during March 2026. The drawings were made over a period of 10 days, whilst camping with family and friends on the West Coast of South Africa. I initially planned to take tide-line rubbings and see what the coast […]
Since my formal studies are complete, I have noticed how my attention has shifted from explanation to listening. I’m less interested in resolving my work by figuring out how I will share it in a gallery/exhibition/framing, and more concerned with how that process will participate in the work’s breathing. When structure becomes too certain, I […]
In early January 2026, I started a drawing about a river and life, as life was hurting at that point. My 95-year-old father passed after a medical procedure and a subsequent severe stroke, and it was also near the anniversary of the day my youngest son died three years ago. The drawing shares the influence […]
Introduction I am increasingly convinced that awe is an emotion that wants to be shared; this is what drives me to make art. I recently began experimenting with drawing machines that engage directly with the landscape. These simple constructions — feathers, charcoal, and twine suspended from trees — record the unseen movements of wind and […]
During my studies, I ordered a book, by Ruth Woods, FINDING FORM WITH FIBRE. I have not really spent enough time using this book, and now it’s the time. I asked friends if I could cut fibrous materials in their gardens. I realise it is early spring and maybe not the best time to gather […]
It seems that each installation becomes a reimagining of the nest—not just as an object, but as a proposition. When I suspend these wire forms in space, I’m not merely arranging sculptural elements for visual engagement. I’m proposing a way of being-with—the materials, the shadows, the air, the viewer, and the place itself. The nest, […]
INTRODUCTION This post will be a time-based blog in the form of writing/documenting and responding to conversations and discussing ideas about vessels and making between Annette Holtkamp (OCA textiles student and part of a crit group) and me. I share this work with the assessors as it shows peer interaction, discussions around work, and the […]