2010's
The 2010's were defined by ambition in vision, scale and conviction. The art became bolder, the research deeper and the fieldwork more formidable, involving complex expeditions across Africa, particularly to the Omo Valley, supported by teams of translators, drivers, cooks and at times, armed guards.
While the public reception was often muted by institutional discomfort, the private admiration for his work was undeniable. The more his integrity and originality threatened the status quo, the harder the system pushed back. This stands as a decade of extraordinary creative force, where art, research and moral clarity converged in works as fearless as they were unforgettable.
2015
'1 am Naruga'
133 x171 cm
Charcoal and chalk pastel on 300 gram cotton rag paper
2015
'1 am Nga Jareholi'
205 x 132 cm
Charcoal and chalk pastel on 300 gram cotton rag paper
2017
'I am Amer'
109 x 141 cm
Charcoal and chalk pastel on 300 gram cotton rag paper
2018
Classroom in Dus
Charcoal and chalk pastel drawing on Arches 300 gram cotton rag paper
161 x 108 cm
2018
‘I am Zino Gadi’
Charcoal and chalk pastel drawing on Arches 300 gram cotton rag paper
94 x 117.5 cm
"My observations over a seven year period, provided insight into the trajectory from traditional independent lifestyle, living off the land, to modernisation. Faced with the consequences of loss; their ancestral land, their forests, their rivers, their cows, their crops; the Kara community of Dus, located in East Africa, are faced with little choice but to comply with the pressures of a monetarised world and formal education, which they have chosen to embrace."
2019
Name is
Charcoal and chalk pastel drawing on Arches 300 gram cotton rag paper
118 x 92 cm
2019
Memory
Created through repeated layering of bending ply, reinforced with aluminium.
220 x 225 x 125 cm
Exhibited March 2019 Circa Gallery, Johannesburg
2019
“The people melt into the darkness and disappear and the sugar cane springs up”
Title: Quote Arundhati Roy
Photograph printed on 100 % Hemp heavyweight canvas
11 panels each 145 x 250 cm
The remaining inhabitants of the once large Mursi village euphemistically explained those absent as 'gone to the fields', meaning, as labour on the Chinese-operated sugar plantations within Mago National Park.
Exhibited March 2019 Circa Gallery, Johannesburg
2017 - 2019
The Lip Plate Cabinet
Concrete, steel, glass and lip plates
Cabinet: 109 x 120 x 60 cm's 9
Tables: 86 x 100 x 105 cm's each
Exhibited March 2019 Circa Gallery, Johannesburg
