Creative coaching/assistance

creative assistance for mid-career artists (face-to-face or online)

​​(all work remains confidential)

please contact me if you are interested

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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.

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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

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• 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, ending up with over 90 exhibitions on its website, having participated in six art fairs and holding three 'real life' exhibitions, all promoting its featured artists.

Via outoftheCUBE I would 

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• 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.