Johannesburg, New York (Self Portrait with Monica Srivastava) (2025) –2300mm x 1800mm, Oil on canvas

Vark and Banda (2025) – 2x 295mm x 380mm, Oil on canvas

Strange One (2025) – 630mm x 771mm, graphite on paper

Private Collection, Amsterdam

Jacques Derrida (2025) – 230mm x 200mm, Oil on canvas 🟩

“Eish” is a South African slang term which is used to show frustration or annoyance with, or respond to, an unforeseen circumstance, but also a reluctant acceptance. I grew up saying “eish”, learning it at public school.With each colour of the letter and exclamation marks being those of the flag of South Africa, this work is a playful attempt at interpreting the everyday realities in our country which maybe different from the promises of a post 1994 South African democratic nation state. As an artist I am asking; what has been successful? but also, what has been frustrating? How fictitious is the idea of a free, fair, equal society when many people’s lived reality does not reflect the idealisms of the new South Africa’s constitutional genesis in the 1990s. I want the viewer to ask themselves; what has made you say “eish” lately? (Coincidentally “eish” is also Hebrew for the word ‘fire’).

Hannah Arendt (2025) – 225mm x 265mm, Oil on canvas

Shown at 'Fiction', Group exhibition at No End Contemporary Art Space in Johannesburg (26th April - 21st June 2025)

Shown at 'Fiction', Group exhibition at No End Contemporary Gallery in Johannesburg (26th April - 21st June 2025)

unframed. 🗺️ available through Latitudes Online ! This painting is about my relationship to Alexandria, Egypt where my maternal Grandmother is from. Mish Mish Effendi was a cartoon created by Egyptian Jews. That’s Mabululu, who played for Ittihad Alexandria. And that's the city's corniche. In my hand I'm holding Pearls, and Pansy Shells (Sand Dollars).

Mish Mish Effendi I (2025) - 695mm x 730mm, Oil on Canvas, unframed. 🗺️ available through Latitudes Online ! This painting is about my relationship to Alexandria, Egypt where my maternal Grandmother is from. Mish Mish Effendi was a cartoon created by Egyptian Jews. That’s Rommel’s bike. That was Perla’s synagogue. 🕍

Joseph Revealing Himself to His Brothers (2025) - 500mm x 350mm, ink on paper, edition of 12.

This work is currently up at the Heller Museum in New York for the group show Proverbs, Adages and Maxims.

This painting was done on un-stretched canvas (support is visible), as a way for me to get back into painting with oils after a period not doing so

This painting was done on un-stretched canvas (support is visible), as a way for me to get back into painting with oils after a period not doing so

This painting was done on un-stretched canvas (support is visible), as a way for me to get back into painting with oils after a period not doing so.