Art in Context Experts Team
Art in Context aims to provide the most accurate and helpful information, therefore our writer’s team consists of educated and passionate art experts. Each team member brings in their own expertise and point of view to make our content unique. If you would like to learn more about the philosophy behind the website artincontext.org, you can visit our about page. Would you like to join our team? Get in touch with us.
Contemporary Art and Art History
Isabella Meyer | Head of Content, Editor, Art Writer
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Jordan Anthony | Content Editor, Art Writer, Photographer
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Alicia du Plessis | Author and Art History Expert
Alicia du Plessis is a multidisciplinary writer. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Art History and Classical Civilization, as well as two Honors, namely, in Art History and Education and Development, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Alicia’s specialised areas of interest in Art History include the process of writing about Art History and how to analyze paintings. Some of her favorite art movements include Impressionism and German Expressionism. She is yet to complete her Masters in Art History (she would like to do this abroad in Europe) having given it some time to first develop more professional experience with the interest to one day lecture it too. Alicia has specialized in painting analysis for artincontext.org.
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Chrisél Attewell | Multidisciplinary Visual Artist, Art Writer
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Nicolene Burger | Multimedia-Artist, Creative Consultant, Art Writer
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Jaycene-Fay Ravenscroft | Art Gallery Assistant, Art Author
Jaycene-Fay Ravenscroft is a writer, poet, and creative living in South Africa with over 6 years of experience working in a contemporary art gallery. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Art History and Ancient History at the University of South Africa, with additional subjects in Archaeology and Anthropology. With a passion for learning, Jaycene-Fay is very much inspired by symbology and the connection between everything in this world. Trained to analyze and ‘critique’ art, she is passionate about exploring the meaning behind each artwork she encounters and understanding how it connects to the artist’s cultural, historical, and social background. Writing is Jaycene-Fay’s way of having a finger in every pie: to research, share knowledge, and express herself creatively.
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Emma Littleton | Academic and Content Writer
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Armin Kific | Social and Political Researcher, Art Writer
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Architecture, Literature and Poetry
Justin van Huyssteen | Novelist, Academic and Educator
Justin van Huyssteen is a freelance writer, novelist, and academic originally from Cape Town, South Africa. At present, he has a bachelor’s degree in English and literary theory and an honor’s degree in literary theory. He is currently working towards his master’s degree in literary theory with a focus on animal studies, critical theory, and semiotics within literature. As a novelist and freelancer, he often writes under the pen name L.C. Lupus. Justin’s preferred literary movements include modern and postmodern literature with literary fiction and genre fiction like sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, and horror being of particular interest. His academia extends to his interest in prose and narratology. He enjoys analyzing a variety of mediums through a literary lens, such as graphic novels, film, and video games. Justin is working for artincontext.org as an author and content writer since 2022. He is responsible for all blog posts about architecture, literature and poetry.
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Painting, Drawing, and Design
Charlene Lewis | Content Creator and Creativity Writer
In 2005, Charlene completed her wellness degrees in therapeutic aromatherapy and reflexology at the International School of Reflexology and Meridian Therapy. She spent several years working for a company that offered corporate wellness programs before eventually establishing her own therapy practice. In 2015, a digital marketing friend invited her to join their company as a content creator, and it was in this role that she discovered her passion for writing. Since entering the world of content creation, Charlene has gained extensive experience writing about a diverse range of topics, including beauty, health, wellness, travel, crafting, and more. Due to various circumstances, she had to close her therapy practice and now works as a freelance writer. Given her creative nature and her involvement in various arts and crafts, contributing her knowledge and experience in different creative topics at Art in Context is an ideal fit for her.
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Matthew Matthysen | Drawing and Painting Artist, Art Writer
Matthew Matthysen is a multidisciplinary artist. He completed his fine art degree, majoring in History of Art and Contemporary Drawing Practice at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The emphasis of Matthew’s practice was a research-based approach to the philosophical effects on the human experience of the macro and micro-universe. Through various mediums, such as written and practical components, Matthew explores various ideas located within the conjoined space between science and philosophy. Matthew has had various exhibitions before and throughout his year of studies and continues to do so. He has commissioned and sold various works to galleries and collectors. He currently sells work to an online gallery (Artgazette) and continues to make work for the public and private sectors. Matt is mainly working for artincontext.org and is responsible for the drawing tutorials.
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Photography and Videography
Duncan van der Merwe | Video Editor, Videographer, Writer
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Former Team Members
Thembeka Heidi Sincuba | Artist, Art Writer
Heidi Sincuba was the Head of Painting at Rhodes University from 2017 to 2020 and part of the first Artist Run Practice and Theory course at Konstfack in Stockholm, 2021. They completed their BFA at Artez Arnhem in the Netherlands, MFA at Goldsmiths University of London, and are currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cape Town. Heidi Sincuba’s own practice explores fugitivity through painting, drawing, text, textiles, performance, and installation. This praxis is founded on a conceptual intersection of biomythographic experimentation, existential automatism, and African ancestral knowledge systems. These methodologies of multiplicity result in a fluid and speculative aesthetic, continually manifesting and metamorphosing its material conditions.
Demi Bucklow | Illustrator, Fine Artist, Art Writer
Demi Bucklow is an independent artist and photographer living in Cape Town, South Africa. Since graduating from the University of Cape Town in 2018 from Michaelis School of Fine Art with a degree specializing in fine art photography, she currently works as a freelance artist, content creator and writer. Demi’s particular interests explore a range of multimedia illustration, collage art, photography and videography, darkroom processing and stop-motion animation. Her work is an exploration of nature and its phenomenon – somewhere between art and space. Artistic practice presents the ability to communicate a vision. It is through techniques of pointillism and realism that form, and substance are explored as a metaphor for matter; super-imposing a thousand marks and points until an image is formed before our eyes. From illustrations to surrealist landscapes, Demi translates corporeality – mixing the obtuse and vacuous with the astute and expressive which leads to a mixture of irrevocable pondering over what is and what could be.
Kylie Deyzel | Interior Designer
Kylie Deyzel is an interior designer and sustainability enthusiast from Cape Town, South Africa. She has a passion for writing and educating others on various interior design topics. Her favorite interior design topics include interior design theory, interior design history, and most of all: sustainable interior design. She received her B-tech degree in interior design from the University of Johannesburg in 2018 and has worked at various interior design firms since and had a few of her own freelance interior design clients under her company name binnekant.