A brutal colonial system in what was then Rhodesia, into which I was born and in which I was raised, is now Zimbabwe, a system that has ‘evolved’ into an oligarchic reign of terror and corruption. Profoundly impacting my psyche, my life and my work, I have continued to develop motifs of oppression as the broader context for my work over the past years.

The political is also personal. By rendering the covert overt, the unconscious conscious, I have been attempting to confront in my work that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within me.

The choice of medium with regards to my conceptual pieces is determined by the context of what the artwork I am currently working on needs to convey, in such a way as to embed the subject in the material.

My intention is to use the friction of discordant images in my work to reveal the paradoxes inherent in the human condition and in the broader socio-political realities that impact our daily lives. I find intriguing, and draw from, mythological allegories and art historical references that tend to reverberate through time and yet are still relevant within our contemporary society. This for me reinforces how the absurdity of our human condition is endlessly repeated; a hint of suggestion via a charcoal sketch here, a nearly invisible reference there, are features of my work that frequently manifest as a sometimes hidden, sometimes exposed playful edge, which simultaneously belies a collective despair at our beingness and reveals its macabre humour.

I continue to challenge the process of my artmaking and choice of materials by giving authority to the relevant poignant questions of our times and our very humanness.