#a_creativecatalyst
creative assistance for mid-career artists (face-to-face or online)
(all work remains confidential)
please contact me if you are interested
I work with artists as a creative catalyst - together we:
- explore the artist's creative journey
- focus on the artist's ideas
- look at the artist's source material for imagery
- suggest areas of research for the artist
- consider the artist's technical artmaking skills and offer practical advice
- encourage the artist to find ways to integrate their ideas and their tangible artworks to create a resolved body of work
- investigate creative pathways moving forwards.
experience _ my story
Between 2008 and 2012
I was a part-time lecturer in the Visual Arts Department at the University of
South Africa (Unisa).
My responsibilities included
- supervising and assessing the BVA senior students
- encouraging their research skills and critical thinking
- coaching them in
terms of integrating their ideas and their making processes.
Here I became passionate about the ‘why’ behind an artist’s making and thinking processes.
In 2013 I
established outoftheCUBE - an online exhibiting platform showcasing the work of South
African mid-career artists that interested me. This was one of the first of its kind in South Africa. During its five-year existence, outoftheCUBE grew with over 90 exhibitions on its website, participating in six art fairs and holding three 'real life' exhibitions, all promoting its featured artists.
Via outoftheCUBE I would
- approach an artist to set up an 'outofthecube' relationship to explore their creative processes
- hold an interview with them
- document their work
- research and write their creative story for the website
- curate online and 'real life' exhibitions to include their artworks.
From the beginning of 2025, I started my #an_uncomplicated curator project. Here, I curate exhibitions of other artist's works, usually earlier works, within a fresh context.
This entails deep discussions with artists about their work, often echoing the way I approached artists for their outoftheCUBE exhibitions.
This sometimes prompts new works from the artist or a new direction forward for them.
More can be seen on the #an_uncomplicatedcurator page of this website.