Claudette Jooste
Artist Bio
Claudette Jooste is a visual artist working with unstable materials- SCOBY skins, bioplastics, and PLA lithophanes- to explore antinatalism, ethical refusal, and the politics of impermanence. Her practice is rooted in material contradiction: she cultivates decay, embraces collapse, and treats disappearance as a conceptual strategy. Skin, in her work, becomes both metaphor and method- marking boundaries, resisting legacy, and refusing to endure.
Currently completing her BA in Visual Multimedia Design at the University of South Africa (UNISA), she integrates philosophical inquiry with material experimentation. Her methodology is cyclical and practice-led, embracing unpredictability, microbial agency, and the ethics of not preserving.
Artist CV
Education:
June 2026- Bachelor of Visual Multimedia Arts: University of South Africa, Pretoria
AWARDS:
November 2025- Certificate of Excellence, Top of class final year in Visual Multimedia Arts, UNISA
November 2025- Certificate of Merit, Internship, and community work, UNISA
Group Exhibitions:
March 2026- The Masters- Reimagined, Group exhibition, Johann van Heerden Art Gallery, Pretoria
February 2026- Annual Members Exhibition, Association of Arts Pretoria, Pretoria
November 2025- UNISA Student Exhibition, Kgorong Art Gallery, Pretoria
