Artist Profile Gina

Gina van der Ploeg is a sculptor, textile artist, and farmer from Cape Town who wanted to bring her personal brand of artistry and overall creative work to the wider community by means of a looking into her life and her mediums of choice. Rebecca, using familiar spaces for Gina sought to create a perfectly balanced artistic and narrative flow to bring this artists life and work to the wider community. The aim was to show the intimate moments of work with a multitude of mediums.


Gina wanted this piece to be accessible, visually dynamic and intriguing. Her art is centred around the body, from the labour it performs harvesting and growing to the way her whole body is involved in weaving on the back-strap loom. Thus, her work encourages an empathy and engagement in the viewer that is experienced through how their own bodies relate to, navigate around, and often touch her sculptures. Taking an age old tradition of making clothes, vessels, and sacred objects, she pushes the act of weaving beyond function, creating forms that are both familiar and strange, thus calling to embodied practices and bodies/objects in motion


Through XCIV, the project that was created became personalised and intricately designed specifically for the artist and showcased their work, person and enthusiasm to the highest degree. Rebecca was perfectly suited to create this piece, her strengths and passion for this project allowed for a seamless pair to ultimately create this artists profile for Gina which when completed was something both were overjoyed with.