BACHELOR OF VISUAL ARTS
UNISA
2011 Course work
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Collagraphs
embossing, black & white, colour ink
seeds, peels, rice salt, foil, toothpicks
Ransom notes
A3
paper letters cut outs
Designs with dried foods,
A4 boards x 3
50 x 50 cm, acrylic canvas
wild rice, lentils, pumpkin seeds, chick peas, pepper corns
pumpkin seeds with ink writing (with details)
Peas                                                                        Renaissance mussels
70 x 70cm                                                                70 x 70 cm
Acrylic on canvas                                                     Mixed media acrylic on canvas
Flat bread as surfaces
Ink, acrylic paint on bread
You Complete Me series
25 x 35 cm
Acrylic paint, heart shaped sweets, silicon on canvas board
Doll collection with plastic melted forks
Doll collection- real sizes dolls
dolls with modeling gel, acrylic paint
Doll collection
dolls made from bread dough,
condiments: marmite, ketchup, mustard, mayo
dolls collection
clothes made from bread, chips and chocolate
wrappers
Dolls collection
Boiled and jarred dolls with melted plastic forks
Photo collections                                        Roy Lichtenstein adaptations                                Photo collections
The concept of this year's work was woman's obsession with body image, society's pressure and the
constant bombardment of diets. I investigated my own love and obsession with food, my own body
image. I enjoyed using myself as a subject and canvas. My interest in video art has been ignited and
experimentation with stop-frame animation has been immense fun!
Comfort Blanket
Sheet with hand stitched collage
of junk food wrappers and words of comfort stitched
and words of disgust written in ink
Andy Warhol adaptations
(self portrait)
Series of self portraits while eating meat.
Series of meat related photos

The concept handles woman's body issues.
Ten volunteers, each had their photo taken
and made a sketch of how they perceive their
bodies to look like (photos not shown due to
privacy).
I had traced their outlines on chiffon and
hand stitched their own comments onto their
I had traced their outlines on chiffon and
ghostly bodies.
The installation hung from the ceiling in a
separate room, with the photos and sketches
around the walls.
An audio CD was playing with interviews
recorded by myself of a group of woman,
discussing their body images and various
diets followed.