Workshops, Mentoring & Curatorship.
What drives my practice also drives my work with others: the belief that art has the capacity to surface what has been buried, to hold what is complex, and to open up new ways of understanding where we come from and who we are.
Workshops
Mentorship
Curatorial Work
The Rest is Memory is a six-week online workshop that invites artists to explore personal history, archive, and memory using photography as a lens for identity and story. My own award-winning practice has grown directly from this terrain over decades, and the workshop offers reflective exercises, creative prompts, and personal guidance within a small, supportive group. This is not a course about technical skills; it is about process, reflection, and the stories only you can tell.
I offer one-on-one mentorship, both in person and online, to practicing artists and high school art and photography students. Whether you are looking to deepen an existing practice, find a new direction, or develop the confidence to trust your own material, these sessions are tailored entirely to where you are and where you want to go.
Curation, for me, is an extension of the same questions that drive my practice: how do we tell complex stories and in ways that reach people? I have led and co-developed exhibitions and public programmes across South Africa that bring together art, community, memory, and social history.
As lead curator of Umaf' evuka, nje ngenyanga / Dying and Rising as the Moon Does (Keiskamma Art Project Retrospective, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 2022-2023), I worked in close collaboration with a rural, women-led organisation whose work spans art, health education, HIV/AIDS care, youth support, and ecological knowledge. I led research and interpretation, commissioned artists, integrated community narratives, and coordinated across artists, educators, archivists, and community health workers to foreground ethical collaboration and shared authorship. I fundraised for the exhibition and produced a richly illustrated, in-depth interactive online catalogue that remains a lasting record of the project and its community. The exhibition managed a public event for over 200 attendees, including talks, media walkthroughs, and guided tours.
For /ˈwɔːtə(r)/ (AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 2022), I curated an exhibition exploring water, embodiment, and environmental pressures through contemporary artistic practice and research-based storytelling. I was also selected as a mentor for this exhibition through the Nando's Creative Exchange, an annual mentorship and development programme run in partnership with the Spier Arts Trust, which supports four emerging South African fine artists each year with mentorship, material sponsorship, and a culminating group exhibition. Working closely with the participating artists, I supported their professional development throughout the process.
At the A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town, 2019), I curated In Your Place, an exhibition exploring identity and the theme of home, integrating community engagement with exhibition development and interpretation. Alongside the curatorial work, I led workshops that ran in dialogue with the exhibition itself, bringing lived experience and personal narrative into both the making and the meaning of the show.
As co-founder and curator of Behind the Faces (Constitution Hill, Johannesburg and digital platforms 2012), I developed a pan-African multi-platform storytelling initiative focused on women's lived experiences, preserving and presenting oral histories and photographic portraits that highlight women as custodians of cultural memory, care, and social resilience.