My interest in the human condition is a strong motivating force behind the majority of my practice. In this work on paper, the adolescent and our notion of childhood provides a vehicle in which to portray our vulnerability and awkwardness. It is a time of metamorphosis where we balance on a tightrope of fragile volatility. It can be a time of isolation and disloca- tion, and of fears and nightmares.

The incorporation of craft based techniques of stitching; collage and glitter highlight the idea of domesticity and childhood. A tension is also created between the shiny, playful glitter effect and what hovers above the surface of the paper. 1976 Born, Harare, Zimbabwe.

1996-1999 Immigrated to Australia
2002-2003 Represented by Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2004-2005 Living in Hong Kong.
2005  BA Fine Arts Honours Degree, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
2007  Lived and worked in Lesotho.
2010  Lived and worked in Geneva, Switzerland.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 The Unknown Land of the South, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne. Terra Australis Incognita, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2008 The Playground, South Coast Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. Teraphim, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2007 New Painting, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2006 Waking Dreams; An Australian Portrait, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Queensland.
2004 The Human Wreckage, Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland.
2003 Metamorphia, Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland.
2002 A Post Apocalyptic Independence, Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland.
2001 Psychosis, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Banyule City Council Works on Paper Award, Banyule City Council, Ivanhoe, Melbourne.
City of Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, South Australia. Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW. Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW On Paper, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne. Off the Wall, Art Melbourne 09, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
2008 Touring Blake Prize for Religious Art. Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Memento Mori, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Narrative, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2007 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campelltown Arts Center, NSW Blake Prize for Religious Art, National Art School, Sydney. Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art gallery, Sydney. Birthday Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
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Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney. I’m as Mad as Hell, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Art Melbourne 07, Pivotal Galleries, Melbourne.
2006 New Breed, Global Galleries, Sydney. Regional Art Awards, Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa, Raw Space, Brisbane, Queensland.
2003 Artists for Zimbabwe, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.
2002 Zimbabwe Now, The Hague, Holland.
2001 Business as Usual, Harare International Arts Festival, National Gallery, Harare,
Zimbabwe.
2000 Mobil Heritage Exhibition, National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Ikons, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe. Works on Paper, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Awards
2005 Regional Art Award Viewer’s Choice, Regional Art Award, Queensland

Publications
2010 Inside Out Magazine, pg 53.
2009 T Clement, ‘Metropicks’, SMH [Metro], 4 September, pg 14.
‘Profiles’, Art Almanac, September pg 195.
2008 Human Rights Defender, vol 17 #3, December, back cover.
‘Postcards’, Art News, Katy Corner, pg 42. ‘The planner’, SMH [Spectrum], 21 June pg 6 ‘Open Gallery’, SMH [Spectrum, 14 June, pg 18. Central Magazine, 28 June, pg 27 ‘Top Shelf’, SMH [Metro], 30 June, pg 2
2007 ‘Discovering Dank Street’, Sydney Star observer, 31 may, pg 15, Pam Simpson. ‘The Theory of Relativity’, Culture, Central Magazine, May 16, pg 19.
2006 ‘Smart Art’, Sunshine Coast daily Revive Magazine, April 29 pg 6-8, Gail Arnold.
2002 Onzerwereld, April, pg 50-51, Anno van der Heide
Limburgs Dagblad Newspaper, 9 March, pg 37
2001 ‘Altered States’, Gallery Delta Magazine, Frances Marks.