I am an Associate Professor in Visual Studies at Stellenbosch University, where I work at the interface of visual culture, curatorial practice, and critical theory. As an active visual artist specialising in stone sculpture and drawing media, I also serve as a curator; most recently, I curated the exhibition Followed by Nine Zeros: Experiments in Deep Time.

My research investigates queer histories and diverse forms of visual resistance. This body of work confronts the radical erasure of local queer histories, conceptualising how subjects negotiate their identities when at odds with hetero- and cisnormative conventions. I also explore the critical activation of the ‘small’ within visual culture by interrogating scale as a direct counter to the monumentalising impact of colonial and apartheid discourses.

My studio work and curatorial practice directly inform my theoretical approach, providing a material understanding of form, scale, and resistance that underpins my academic scholarship. I am a recipient of the Centre for Area Studies Research Fellowship at Leipzig University (2016) and the Georg Forster Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017–2018), and I was selected as a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) in 2013.