lives and works in Berlin, germany

1979 Born in Tzaneen, South Africa

Education

2001–05 Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf  (Professor Rosemarie Trockel)

1999-2001 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2012 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium

2008 Arbeitsstipendium Kunststiftung NRW

2006 Art Cologne Price for New Talents, Cologne (scholarship)

2005 Peter–Mertes–Stipendium, Bonn (scholarship)

2004 Reisestipendium, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (scholarship)

Independent Projects, Spaces

2005–06 Bar Ornella (Maibachstrasse, Cologne), founded and organized together with other artists, where exhibitions and art projects took place once a week.

2004–06 Panzer (Thebäerstrasse, Cologne), exhibition space, founded and organized together with Jan Meier and Simon Hemmer.