Biography

Raised in a creative home, I, Onthatile More, learnt early on that beauty doesn't always announce itself. It’s often found in tensions, in contrast, in the quiet details others might overlook. That lesson has shaped not only how I create — but how I move through the world.

As a South African woman, I've long moved within quiet boundaries. Subtle but unyielding: defining what can be reached for and what must be endured. My work speaks to that tension — between captivity and release, restraint and power. It lives in the curve of a shoulder, the weight of a gesture, the breath held before motion.

I sculpt using clay, casting stone, and Jesmonite — materials that demand presence and patience. Each piece is the result of an obsessive, meticulous process: a course of refining, correcting, distilling — until the form feels inevitable. While my work carries the softness of Impressionism, it is anchored in anatomical precision. Each sculpture is a meditation on what it means to be witnessed — and what remains deliberately obscured.

With a background in psychology, I’m deeply attuned to emotional states that pause and echo within the body — and how art becomes a vessel for what cannot be said aloud. That understanding also led me to found the Work of Art Foundation, a nonprofit that uses art to bring joy, healing, and creative exploration to under-resourced and hospitalised children across South Africa.

This is the space I've carved to hold my work. Each piece is a portal toward what you might be yearning to touch, to flee, or to finally see.