Back to Projects Marks on the landscape hold the memory of ancient material choreographies of water, fire and earth – within, around and over which, the fleeting presence of human imagination is carved, folded and draped. Featured in the curator’s special [...]
Back to Projects HANKEY, EASTERN CAPE, 2019 A series of conceptual landworks for the Sarah Baartman Centre of Remembrance, developed in collaboration with Parts & Labour and Helene Smuts.
Back to Projects PRETORIA, 2019 Located in the Javett Art Centre in Pretoria, 350 artefacts from the AngloGold Ashanti Barbier-Mueller Gold of Africa Collection from West Africa are displayed in a series of glass cabinets, suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. Curator: Christopher Till | Project Management: Parts [...]
Back to Projects PRETORIA, 2019 “The archival record is a fragile thing, an enchanted thing… like all repositories of memory, it is an extraordinary creation of remembering, forgetting and imagining” – Verne Harris Conceptualized as an abstract topography of both geography and time, the [...]
Back to Projects 2018 marked the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. This historic year was acknowledged internationally with exhibitions in Winnipeg, Fortaleza, Dublin, London, Cardiff, Glasgow and Bristol. The exhibition content was based on the permanent Mandela Exhibition at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, as well [...]
Back to Projects UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, 2018 “I do merely listen, watching for a story, which I want to hear; While I sit waiting for it that it may float into my ear.” – //Kabbo, 1875 Spanning from deep time to the current, [...]
Back to Projects APARTHEID MUSEUM, JOHANNESBURG, 2018 We are Walkers | We are Thinkers | We are Fighters | We are Gazers | We are Storytellers | We are Survivors. An exhibit installation of pre-colonial history, in collaboration [...]
Back to Projects CAPE TOWN, 2022 Ramutloa, George; 19 July 1915. A labourer, run over by a wagon while stationed in Kalkfeldt, Namibia. Makhaleyane, Maeil; 15 April 1916. An ox-driver, died on board the SS Aragon following an infection of Malaria, after [...]
Back to Projects DANIELSKUIL, NORTHERN CAPE, 2018 Acknowledging the diversity of cultural narratives that have intersected in South Africa’s arid Northern Cape province, this architectural proposal is a celebration of an ancient, archaeological landscape; a land rich in stories – and multiple perspectives. [...]
Back to Projects UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, 2020 Immersion. Suspension. Reflection. Beads from the World Heritage Sites of Schroda, K2 and Mapungubwe constitute the ‘Mapungubwe Bead Assemblage’ – with some dating as far back as 900AD. Glass, stone, shell, clay, copper, iron and bronze comprise the material palette of these miniature artworks [...]
Back to Projects TRUTH TO POWER: DESMOND TUTU AND THE CHURCHES IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID, APARTHEID MUSEUM, JOHANNESBURG, 2019 Six chapters chronicle the life and contribution of one of South Africa’s most beloved heroes: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu. [...]
Back to Projects THE OLD GRANARY, CAPE TOWN, 2019 This permanent exhibition on the life and extraordinary contribution to the struggle for a democratic republic by one of South Africa’s most beloved heroes, Archbishop Emeritus [...]
Back to Projects JOHANNESBURG, 2022 In celebration of the University’s centenary in 2022, Centenary Stories was a short feature series in the Wits University Alumni Office publication, The Wits Review that charted the influences, overlaps and consequences of the university’s role in the historic political shift towards democracy in South Africa. [...]
Back to Projects JAVETT ART CENTRE, PRETORIA, 2021 Located at the entrance to the ‘National Treasures’ exhibit of gold artefacts at the Javett Art Centre, the relationship between artefact, people and landscape from the Mapungubwe Archive, frames this exhibition and initiates contemporary dialogues and translations around land, identity and belonging. [...]
Back to Projects WONDERWERK CAVE, KURUMAN, 2016 “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and [...]
Back to Projects JOHANNESBURG, 2021 The result of an experimental collaborative effort by Sarah de Villiers, Hashim Tarmohamed and Craig McClenaghan, 'Passages of Rock' is a narrative atlas that chronicles the journeys, conversations and implications associated with a collection [...]
