Anna van der Ploeg

(b 1992, South Africa. Lives and works in Belgium and Cape Town)

Anna van der Ploeg is an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker. She currently shares a studio space with several other artists and a printmaking press. Van der Ploeg's parallel role as a beekeeper permeates her visual language; the rich; ritualistic performance of it allows her to mine the metaphors of the veiled figure. She is interested in proximity to discomfort; and in what we choose to reveal of ourselves.