This collection forms part of Tracey Thoolen’s engagement with digital processes during her time at the CAP Institute for Contemporary Art.
The works explore how traditional mark-making can translate into a digital space – retaining texture, depth, and organic flow while embracing new mediums.
Currently exhibited at the Jan Smuts House, Irene, Pretoria, the series reflects a balance between analogue sensitivity and digital precision, expanding the boundaries of how her work can be experienced.
This collection reflects Tracey Thoolen’s exploration of how tactile mark-making and layered surface processes can translate into a digital space. The works retain a sense of movement, texture, and organic depth while embracing the possibilities of contemporary digital mediums.
Rather than replacing traditional practice, the series extends it – allowing familiar gestures, forms, and visual language to evolve through new tools and technologies. The result is a dialogue between hand-crafted sensitivity and digital precision.
Currently exhibited at the Jan Smuts House, Irene, Pretoria, the project highlights an expanded approach to image-making and the continued evolution of Tracey Thoolen’s creative practice.
This body of work formed part of Dialogue of Senses, an exhibition celebrating Women’s Month at the Viewing Room in Brooklyn, Pretoria. Centred on the concept that rocks and fossils
Developed as part of Tracey Thoolen’s BA in Visual Arts at UNISA, this body of work explores the relationship between form, memory, and transformation. The series moves through a progression
Created during her studies at the CAP Institute for Contemporary Art under Elfriede Dreyer, this body of work explores themes of regeneration, resilience, and quiet transformation. Through imagery of mushrooms
The Journey is an evolving body of work centred on process, transformation, and the unfolding of form. Through studies, chemigrams, drawings, and sculptural explorations, the series follows how ideas shift,
