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, fragment, and re-emerge over time.
Wild dogs appear as recurring symbols of instinct, resilience, movement, and survival. Across the collection, making, material response, and discovery become as important as the final image.
This body of work moves between control and unpredictability, combining intentional mark-making with processes that invite chance. Chemigrams, layered surfaces, line studies, and sculptural forms contribute to a visual language shaped by experimentation and response.
Rather than presenting a single fixed outcome, The Journey reveals art as an ongoing progression. Forms repeat, transform, dissolve, and return in new ways — echoing the rhythms of nature and the constant movement of life itself.
Inspired in part by the untamed beauty of the natural world and the endangered wild dog, the series invites reflection on fragility, adaptation, and endurance. It is both a personal exploration and a wider meditation on instinct, environment, and creative process.
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
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
