JORDAN SWEKE 

(b. 1991, Johannesburg. Lives and works in Cape Town)

'Exploring and reflecting upon spatial perceptions within the natural world. Jordan Sweke aims to create “a marriage between the mathematical and the abstract, the geometric and the organic.'

Working in a wide array of visual media including video, land art, urban installations, photography and oil paint on linen, Sweke emphasises the material elements of his natural surroundings. He has travelled extensively within South Africa, throughout Namibia, and briefly in Italy and Switzerland. These experiences have fuelled his contemporary notions of abstraction, geometrical and organic forms found in his work. Fresh and uncompromising, Sweke's work 'manages to reflect a Romantic beauty - a synthesis of life, death and the sublime.' His artworks challenge their audience to illustrate and redefine their engagement and understanding of conceptual natural space.