tuck, twist, twink

(2024 - 2025)

  • A two-year exploration of self-portraiture, identity, and image-making. This catalogue brings together photographic, performative, and installation-based works created during my Honours in Visual Communication (2024–2025). Each piece reflects ongoing research into gendered space, embodiment, and the politics of being seen.

  • Queer embodiment, gendered perception, and the spaces that shape us. Across these projects, I examine how appearance, hair, gesture, and movement influence how bodies, especially queer bodies, are read and misread in public, intimate, and hypermasculine environments.

  • A visual archive of becoming. From early experiments to final installations, this catalogue traces the shifts, risks, and discoveries that shaped my practice: navigating sport, public bathrooms, national identity, and the layered terrain of personal and collective memory.

This catalogue outlines the material, technical, and conceptual decisions behind the body of work developed for tuck, twist, twink (2024-2025). It provides a practical overview of print format, substrates, installation, approaches, and pricing while also highlighting these choices, supporting the projects, exploration of identity, visibility, and the politics of body by bringing together the process and outcome, this catalogue offers insight into how each work was constructed and how form, material, and meaning shape the final visual narrative. 

Dismount, 2025

This artwork consists of a series of screengrabs printed on linen, measuring 85 x 100 cm. Each image originates from a performance in which the artist balances and moves on a gymnastics beam, a piece of apparatus traditionally associated with precision, discipline, and controlled movement. Uniquely, this beam is situated not in a gymnasium but in the expansive landscape of the Namib Desert, where wind, sand, and open space become part of the performance itself.

Typology series sold as individual prints: a collection of 30 (each print is sold individually)

Price: R600 each (print only)

The screengrabs capture fleeting gestures and moments of the body negotiating balance in an environment that is both vast and unpredictable. Printed on linen paper, the images hold a soft, textured quality that echoes the desert’s terrain. Mounted on wooden blocks, the work gains a quiet sculptural presence; the slight depth of the blocks allows the images to occupy space more actively, bridging the gap between photographic documentation and physical installation. By presenting these stills as a typology, the piece invites viewers to notice subtle variations, shifts in posture, light, shadow, and landscape, and to consider how performance translates into fragmented visual records. The work foregrounds the contrast between human control and natural openness, between the structured discipline of gymnastics and the unbounded expanse of the desert.

Ultimately, the installation becomes a dialogue between body, landscape, and documentation, offering a layered reflection on movement, environment, and the ways performance can be transformed when lifted out of its expected context.

2nd Place, 2025

This artwork features a 21 x 21 cm mirror transformed into a unique visual experience through a delicate image-transfer process. At its centre is a composition made from two different images that are digitally manipulated and overlaid onto one another, creating a merged visual field where textures, shapes, and tones blend into a single layered artwork. Carefully applied transfer materials allow this combined image to settle softly onto the mirror’s surface, producing a translucent effect that lets light and reflections interact with it, giving the piece a subtle, shifting quality depending on the viewer’s angle.

Mirror transfer series: limited edition of 5 per framed work (each work is sold individually)

Price: R2,000 each

The mirror is set within a hand-crafted wooden frame, whose natural texture adds warmth and contrast to the cool reflective plane. The craftsmanship involved, from preparing the mirror, digitally composing the dual images, transferring them, and sealing the surface, to constructing and finishing the frame, highlights the value of the skilled labour behind the work.

Overall, the piece becomes both an artwork and an object of reflection, inviting viewers to see themselves woven into the dual imagery and materials that shape it.

Miss-gender, 2024

This artwork presents a self-portrait reimagined through sculptural form and surface. At its core is a 30.5 x 30.5 x 120 cm plinth, which serves not only as a structural element but as an active part of the visual composition. Wrapped around the plinth is an ink print, whose imagery has been designed to morph and shift as it follows the contours of the structure. As the print bends around edges and planes, the self-portrait subtly distorts, creating moments where the image stretches, compresses, or realigns depending on the viewer’s position.

Plinth installation work

R3,000

3 of 3 print editions (limited-run prints inspired by the installation)

R1,500 each

The ink print itself, produced through a precise printing process, embodies both clarity and transformation, highlighting how identity can feel stable yet constantly reshaped by its surroundings. The labour involved in composing, printing, trimming, and applying the image to the plinth is evident in the seamless way the artwork wraps the form, turning a traditionally neutral display object into an expressive part of the piece.

Together, the plinth and the morphing ink print create a multidimensional self-portrait: one that occupies space, shifts with perspective, and invites viewers to move around it, discovering how the image changes as it interacts with the structure it envelops.

Outopie en Zali, 2025

This artwork features a series of framed self-portraits brought to life through vibrant, high-colour ink prints. Measuring 38.5 x 103.1 cm, the piece uses bold hues and striking tonal contrasts to highlight the emotional and visual presence of the portrait. The intensity of the colours creates an immediate sense of energy, drawing the viewer into the imagery and emphasising the expressive qualities of the self-portraits.

A series of two limited-edition framed works


R2,500 each

Each print is carefully produced through a detailed ink-printing process, ensuring clarity, saturation, and richness across the surface. The artwork is encased in a hand-crafted wooden frame, whose natural structure provides a warm balance to the vivid colours within. The frame not only protects the work but also enhances its visual impact, grounding the boldness of the print in a tactile, material form. The labour behind the piece, from composing the self-portrait, generating the vibrant ink print, and preparing the frame, reflects the care and precision required to transform personal imagery into a polished artwork.

Overall, the piece stands as a striking, colour-rich self-portrait that merges craftsmanship with expressive visual storytelling.

Held in the idea of me, 2024

This artwork is a layered self-portrait constructed through the interplay of reflection, image transfer, and conceptual framing. Built upon a square-sized mirror carrying a transferred photographic image, the piece is overlaid with a smaller 15 x 15 cm mirror mounted directly on top. The materials, mirrors, transfer paper, printer, and the labour involved contribute to a work where tactility and clarity sit deliberately in tension.

At the heart of this piece is a meditation on how gendered expectations are imposed long before a child is born, shaped through cultural inheritances, generational beliefs, and familial narratives that project identity onto the unborn. The self-portrait, staged in a fetal position, presents a body that is part masculine, part feminine, and entirely vulnerable. Transferred onto the mirror’s surface, where slight textures, imperfections, and translucencies naturally emerge, the image becomes a liminal form, exposing the tension between who we are expected to become and who we grow into through lived experience.

Mirror transfer work


R3,000 each

The work foregrounds the body as a site of early inscription, a place where signifiers of gender, behaviour, and identity are assigned before agency exists. By presenting an adult body in a symbolic return to the earliest stage of becoming, the piece critiques the binary assumptions that shape belonging, expression, and value. The fragility of the transfer process itself mirrors the instability and impermanence of these inherited structures, structures that appear solid yet remain susceptible to distortion, erasure, and reimagining.

With the mini mirror placed above the transferred image, the viewer’s own reflection merges with the artist’s, creating a layered encounter between past inscription, present identity, and the gaze that continues to shape both. Ultimately, the artwork becomes a reclamation of origin, offering a reimagined beginning that resists and rewrites the categories once projected onto the body.

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All artworks are part of limited editions.
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