About
I am a visual artist and researcher living in Lyon (FR).
Drawing from the fields of anthropology and ecology, I employ speculative storytelling and science fiction to create visual works that span installation, sculpture, film and narrative text.
My South African and German background and upbringing in the settler colony of so-called Australia feed my practice through the subjects I explore.
Je suis un artiste visuel et chercheuse vivant à Lyon (FR).
Empruntant aux champs de l’anthropologie et de l’écologie, J’utilise la narration spéculative et la science-fiction pour créer des œuvres visuelles aux formes variées – installations et sculptures, mais aussi films et textes.
Mes antécédents sud-africains et allemands et mon éducation dans la “settler colony” de l’Australie nourrissent ma pratique à travers les sujets que j'explore.
Education
2014—2017
Work.Master: Contemporary Artistic Practices (honours)
HEAD Geneva University of Art & Design
Geneva - CH
2011—2012
École du Magasin: Curatorial Post Diploma
MAGASIN Centre National d’Art Contemporain
Grenoble - FR
2001—2006
B.A Interior Architecture (honours)
Curtin University of Technology
Perth - AU
solo EXHIbitions
2022
Manque de mordant
Atelier W Pantin, Paris - FR
2021
Boolagoorda
Curator: Xavier Jullien
Centre d’art Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux - FR
2019
Rising Dissolution
Curator: Marie Bassano
La FACTATORY / Galerie Tator, Lyon - FRA Hollow Full Thing
Curator: Denise Bertschi
Lokal-int, Biel/bienne - CH
2018
Chemical Charm
Silicon Malley, Prilly - CH
GROUP EXHIbitions
2022
Vivre le cubisme à Moly-Sabata
Curator: Suzy Louvet
musée de l'Ancien Évêché, Grenoble - FRTarasque et silures
Curator: joël Riff
Art-O-Rama, Marseille - FRDédié·e à sa propre allure
Curator: Hunter Longe & Bénédicte Brunet
La Grange Centre Arts et Science UNIL, Lausanne - CH
2021
A Ciel Ouvert: 20 Artistes dans les rues de lyon
Curator: Magalie Meunier / Studio Ganek
Ville de Lyon, Lyon - FR
2020
Summer Exhibition
Kosminen, Helsinki - FIPréludes pour un Banquet
Curator: Media Naranja
SISSI Club, Marseille - FR
2019
Exposition collective
Inauguration La FACTATORY / Galerie Tator, Lyon - FRPerformance
Espace - LABO, Geneva - CH
2018
Bourse Déliée—2017 Visual Arts laureate
Supported by the cantonal Fund for Contemporary Art
Halle Nord, Geneva - CHDas Leben ist kein Ponyhof
Kunstmuseum, Olten - CHProxy Paradise—Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards
Curator: Balthazar Lovay
LiveInYourHead, Geneva - CHProxy Paradise—Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards at Art Genève
Curator: Balthazar Lovay
Art Genève, Geneva - CH
2016
To Job + to Study: What Artists do for Money
CAN: Centre d’Art Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel - CHCONSTELLATIONS
Curator: Yann Chateigné
Swiss Institute in Rome, Rome - ITTo Job + to Study: What Artists do for Money
Le Foyer, Zurich - CH
2015
10:10 Time As An Agent
Curator: Stuart Bailey
LiveInYourHead, Geneva - CHMy Epidemic: Small Bad Blood Opera with Lili Renaud Dewar
Curator: Lili Renaud Dewar
La Biennale di Venezia & Biblioteque de la Biennale, Venice - IT
2012
The Whole World Is Watching
Le MAGASIN Centre of Contemporary Art, Grenoble - FR
Residencies & Awards
2021 - 2022
Art3 & Institut français de Stuttgart
Programme international de résidence
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart - GE
2020
Art Residency–Moly-Sabata &
3eme Prix art contemporain Département de l’Isère
Moly Sabata / Fondation Albert Gleizes
Sablons - FRLaureate–3eme Prix art contemporain Département de l’Isère /
3rd Department of Isère Contemporary Art Award
Isère - FR
2019
Art Residency—la FACTATORY
la Factatory
Lyon - FRResearch Residency—Sitterwerk Foundary & Art Library
Sitterwerk Art Library
St Gallen - CH
2018
Regional Grant for Contemporary Art (FCAC)
Office Cantonal de la Culture et du Sport
Geneva - CHGrant—Loterie Romande Support for Culture
Fondation d’aide sociale et culturelle du canton de Vaud
Lausanne - CHNew Heads Award—Foundation BNP
BNP Paribas Art Awards
Geneva - CH
2017
Studio Residency—Atelier des Saules (2017—2019)
207 | 211 – RESSOURCE URBAINE
3 Sentier des Saules
Geneva - CHVisual Arts Laureate—2017 Bourse Déliée Grant
Office Cantonal de la Culture et du Sport
Geneva - CH
2016
Art Residency—Constellations Science Summer Academy
Swiss Institute in Rome
Rome - IT
2015
Artists & Evoultionary Biologists exchange (ongoing)
EPFL Facaulty of Life Sciences
Lausanne - CH
2012
Grant for an Emerging Curator
The West Australian Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA)
Perth - AU
Publications & Press
2023
(Feb 2023) Boolagoorda
Artist edition - Centre d’art Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux - FR(March 2023) Transborderment
Collective Novella - Teti Group , Zurich - CH(July 2023) XXX
Artist Edition - Institut français de Stuttgart & Linden Museum, Stuttgart - GE
2021 & before
A chaotic Dance of improvisation
Master thesis - Self Published, Geneva - CHSpelunkers
Artist Edition - Self Published, Geneva - CH
RECENT Press
Tarasque et silures
Kuba Paris
Curiosité
Expressions Vénissieux Newspaper - Vénissieux - FR
ENSBA Lyon
Lyon Plus
Fondation Bullukian
Le Dauphiné Libéré Newspaper - Isère - FR
Le Dauphiné Libéré Newspaper - Isère - FR
Point Contemporain
AQNB
Le Temps Newspaper - Geneva - CH
TEXTS
Manque de mordant
Atelier W, Pantin - FRBoolagoorda ENG / FR
Centre d’art Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux - FRA Hollow Full Thing
Lokal-int, Biel - CHI Want To Smell The Smoke Of Your Burnt Grass
Bourses Déliées 2018 group show
Halle Nord, Geneva - CHMaterial for a Sculpture Magazine contribution
Proxy Paradise—Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards
LiveInYourHead, Geneva - CHI Speak Opuntia, You Speak Progress
Work.Master graduate exhibition
HEAD Geneva University of Art & Design, Geneva - CH
COLLECTIONS
BNP Paribas - CH
Department de l’Isère - FR
