I am excited to be exhibiting in Pretty Serious, running for August and into September, in Cape Town.
"Hosted in collaboration with Art School Africa, Pretty Serious explores the playful, performative, excessive, tender, ridiculous, stylish, emotional, and joyful dimensions of femininity. The unapologetic reclamation of being “just a girl” is itself a delicate art of resistance – a light feminine touch applied to the long, heavy discourse on womanhood.
The exhibition opens up space for blissful girlhood to roam free and encourages tapping into the many, unfiltered parts of the feminine experience. Here, beauty, joy and playfulness can be offered as salve for indoctrinated feminine shame – or hand a bedazzled molotov cocktail of resistance to the inner girlchild in all of us. Revelling in adornment, camp, vulnerability, and the small absurdities can unlock the raw, corporeal pleasure that gets systematically trained out of girls from girlhood. It is a reminder that limitless joy, tenderness and play can be Pretty Serious.
Invited artists engage with femininity as a space of imagination, contradiction, experimentation, and fun. Exploring femininity as an act of rebellious care, asking what it means to take beauty seriously? To find power in softness? To romanticise the everyday,
embrace excess, or perform femininity on your own terms? Pretty Serious is available to view throughout August 2026 in celebration of Women’s Month."
For this exhibition, I present a body of work outside of my usual visual language. A looser mark giving into the instinct of recording a body that is comfortable under water, near naked, meaty, slippery, solid but moving. That body is mine. Unravelled, out of line. I’m comfortable with that body. And in this serious world, the one thing that I don’t want to take too seriously is my physicality.
Oil monotype (unique work) on Fabriano Tiepolo 290 gsm | Printed at Loft Editions | Paper size 56 x 72 cm | Framed size 64 x 84 cm
Opening on Thursday 6 August at 6pm | Orms School of Photography, 56 Roeland Street, Cape Town
View Pretty Serious Exhibition Catalogue
Pretty Serious - Online Press Coverage
1. VISI — Finding Power in the Pretty
Published: 21 August 2026
A dedicated feature exploring the exhibition’s approach to femininity, softness, joy and resistance.
2. Africans Column — Pretty Serious: 20 Artists Reframe Femininity, Girlhood and Softness in Cape Town
Published: August 2026
A substantial exhibition feature examining the curatorial concept, participating artists and the broader significance of the exhibition.
3. The Vibe ZA — Pretty Serious: Femininity Takes Centre Stage in Cape Town
Published: August 2026
A feature on the exhibition's second iteration of the ORMS and Art School Africa Women’s Month collaboration.
4. Mzansi Pulse — Pretty Serious Opens at ORMS School of Photography, Celebrating Women's Month Through the Many Faces of Femininity
Published: 18 August 2026
An exhibition announcement and feature covering the concept, artists and opening.
