FOREWORD BY INGE GUEBLE

“Jasmine has done creative work throughout her life, but only recently has she found her way back to painting in a more serious way, one could almost say that art has found/claimed her back. Jasmine’s background hasn’t been an easy one, and this is represented in her painting style, use of colour and symbolic imagery. She has simply taken off in painting and has now shown that she is equally at home in sculpture Her figures are constantly twisting and contorting uncomfortably pushing against the picture frame. Her figures and faces show protective devices, spikes that are sharp and big teeth almost revealing a protective animal instinct, and so, her imagery and sculptures seem to depict and symbolize the protection of her vulnerability. The emotion and feelings are deeply apparent in her works, and as she has said, for a large part of her life she has struggled while trying to fit in and cope while fighting the restraints of her own deeply rooted self-beliefs.”

- Inge Gueble 2022

RESUME

Born 1985, Johannesburg, South Africa Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa Education 2004 Brandcliff house school, Johannesburg. South Africa 2006 Cidesco International College, Johannesburg, South Africa 2007 Tswane University of Technology, Pretoria, ”Pop-up” Forge Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Commissions 2020 Sotheby’s Real Estate Campaign (in honor of Women’s month 2020. Solo Exhibitions 2021 JAGGED, Candice Berman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2021 “What I learned from the mirror”, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town, South Africa Group Exhibitions 2021 COLOUR PUNCH!, Candice Berman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2021. Solo exhibitions 2022 “Broken Pieces of Hard Things”

about Jasmine

Jasmine, an expressionistic artist Living in Cape town, South Africa. In learning how to let go of barriers, Jasmine is able to tap into a wealth of personal imagery motivated by thoughts and experiences, finding influence in the intricacies of her daily life. Her distinctive and personal style is reflective in her use of contrasting colours and bold compositions. Imagery that pays homage to the conscious and subconscious thought of the human mind.

As a child, she received prizes and awards for her innate talent. With no formal art education, Jasmine is a self taught Painter and has for a large part of her life collected and compounded experience and inspiration from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Baselitz, A.R Penk, Yayoi Kusama and George Condo.

She began her journey into the art world when she was scouted and commissioned for her ceramic work in 2015 By Artist and Former owner of Zulu Lulu art gallery, Trayci Tompkins. Jasmine began her painting career in late 2019 and by August 2020 was commissioned by Yael Geffen CEO of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Real estate for their Women’s month campaign.

Jasmine is compelled to create art using striking colours and loud imagery for the sake of losing herself in an intense desire for comfort and solace in what she can only describe as an “organic, cathartic experience’'