Meet the 6 authors

Zena Velloo John

Poet: Zena Velloo John, is a single mother to a feisty Eco-warrior princess. Snubbing her degree in Industrial Psychology and Communication, she is an Events Resourcing and Facilitation business owner working in the International Development arena, who flies beyond borders; a spiritual explorer and healer; a dance-lover; a voracious reader and a wild writer. Her poetry has been published online by Itch Magazine (www.itch.co.za) and Make Every Woman Count (www.makeeverywomancount.org) as well as in a print anthology titled “The Ground’s Ear” (Contemporary verse from Southern Africa) - published by Quickfox in 2011.

 

Raeesah Mahomed

Designer, Illustrator and Photographer: Raeesah Mahomed is a qualified designer, illustrator and photographer. She has obtained a BA (Information Design) Honours degree from the University of Pretoria (TUKS) as well as a National Diploma in Photography from The National College of Photography. Currently she runs her own design and photographic studio specialising in editorial design, illustration, photographic work and corporate branding.

For more information visit www.lemonstudiotree.co.za

 

 

Jayna Mistry

Fine Artist: Jayna Mistry is an internationally recognized visual and performance artist. Born as a third generation South African Indian figure, her projects play with issues of cultural dislocation and cultural schizophrenia that often occurs in the transmutation of time and space. Drawing from Hindu mythology and various pop music, Mistry depicts surreal worlds that result from experiencing the challenges faced by young female diaspora residing in small towns. They express her own absurdity as an artist, as well as the ridiculous tensions of our inevitable cross-cultural encounters. Her visual art is a build-up to performance pieces in which her alter-ego, Sita Von Teese will be officially revealed to the world.

 

 

Shaskia John

Artist: Shaskia John believes in self-creation instead of self discovery. As a nature conservation university student, tree hugger and self taught artist, she is currently battling the perpetual world of teenage angst. She is also a model and a gamer, who dabbles in a little bit of everything whilst ignoring the voices in her head.

 

 

 

Shenaz Mahomed

Fine Artist: Shenaz Mahomed is a Pretoria based artist and assistant curator at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery. Mahomed obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2014. Conceptually, Mahomed aims to take a rather different turn from re-visioning to now re-mystifying Islamic aesthetics.

 

 

 

Kershnee Velloo

Artist: Kershnee Velloo, married, mother to “smarty box” children, believes in fairy magic and an assortment of wondrous creatures. She is a self-taught artist and a student of natural healing. Although a jack of most trades,

she is an accountant by profession.

 

 

 

 

 

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Poet: Zena Velloo John, is a single mother to a feisty Eco-warrior princess. Snubbing her degree in Industrial Psychology and Communication, she is an Events Resourcing and Facilitation business owner working in the International Development arena, who flies beyond borders; a spiritual explorer and healer; a dance-lover; a voracious reader and a wild writer. Her poetry has been published online by Itch Magazine (www.itch.co.za) and Make Every Woman Count (www.makeeverywomancount.org) as well as in a print anthology titled “The Ground’s Ear” (Contemporary verse from Southern Africa) - published by Quickfox in 2011.

 

Designer, illustrator and photographer: Raeesah Mahomed

is a qualified designer, illustrator and photographer. She has obtained a BA (Information Design) Honours degree from the University of Pretoria (TUKS) as well as a National Diploma in Photography from The National College of Photography.

Currently she runs her own design and photographic studio specialising in editorial design, illustration, photographic work

and corporate branding. For more information visit www.lemonstudiotree.co.za

 

Fine artist: Jayna Mistry is an internationally recognized visual and performance artist. Born as a third generation South African Indian figure, her projects play with issues of cultural dislocation and cultural schizophrenia that often occurs in the transmutation of time and space. Drawing from Hindu mythology and various pop music, in these works Mistry depicts surreal worlds that result from experiencing the challenges faced by young female diaspora residing in small towns. They express her own absurdity as an artist, as well as the ridiculous tensions of our inevitable cross-cultural encounters. Her visual art is a build-up to performance pieces in which her alter-ego, Sita Von Teese will be officially revealed to the world.

 

Artist: Shaskia John believes in self-creation instead of self discovery. As a nature conservationist, tree hugger and self taught artist, she is currently battling the perpetual world of teenage angst. She is also a model and a gamer, who dabbles in a little bit of everything whilst ignoring the voices in her head.

 

Fine Artist: Shenaz Mahomed is a Pretoria based artist and assistant curator at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery. Mahomed has obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2014. Conceptually, Mahomed aims to take a rather different turn from re-visioning to now re-mystifying Islamic aesthetics.

 

 

Artist: Kershnee Velloo, married, mother to “smarty box” children, believes in fairy magic and an assortment of wondrous creatures. She is a self-taught artist and a student of natural healing. Although a jack of most trades,

she is an accountant by profession.

 

 

 

 

Zena Velloo John

Raeesah Mahomed

Jayna Mistry

Shaskia John

Shenaz Mahomed

Kershnee Velloo

  • Zena Velloo John

    Poet: Zena Velloo John, is a single mother to a feisty Eco-warrior princess. Snubbing her degree in Industrial Psychology and Communication, she is an Events Resourcing and Facilitation business owner working in the International Development arena, who flies beyond borders; a spiritual explorer and healer; a dance-lover; a voracious reader and a wild writer. Her poetry has been published online by Itch Magazine (www.itch.co.za) and Make Every Woman Count (www.makeeverywomancount.org) as well as in a print anthology titled “The Ground’s Ear” (Contemporary verse from Southern Africa) - published by Quickfox in 2011.

  • Raeesah Mahomed

    Designer, illustrator and photographer: Raeesah Mahomed is a qualified designer, illustrator and photographer. She has obtained a BA (Information Design) Honours degree from the University of Pretoria (TUKS) as well as a National Diploma in Photography from The National College of Photography. Currently she runs her own design and photographic studio specialising in editorial design, illustration, photographic work and corporate branding. For more information visit www.lemonstudiotree.co.za

  • Jayna Mistry

    Fine artist: Jayna Mistry is an internationally recognized visual and performance artist. Born as a third generation South African Indian figure, her projects play with issues of cultural dislocation and cultural schizophrenia that often occurs in the transmutation of time and space. Drawing from Hindu mythology and various pop music, in these works Mistry depicts surreal worlds that result from experiencing the challenges faced by young female diaspora residing in small towns. They express her own absurdity as an artist, as well as the ridiculous tensions of our inevitable cross-cultural encounters. Her visual art is a build-up to performance pieces in which her alter-ego, Sita Von Teese will be officially revealed to the world.

  • Shaskia John

    Artist: Shaskia John believes in self-creation instead of self discovery. As a nature conservationist, tree hugger and self taught artist, she is currently battling the perpetual world of teenage angst. She is also a model and a gamer, who dabbles in a little bit of everything whilst ignoring the voices in her head.

  • Shenaz Mahomed

    Fine Artist: Shenaz Mahomed is a Pretoria based artist and assistant curator at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery. Mahomed has obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2014. Conceptually, Mahomed aims to take a rather different turn from re-visioning to now re-mystifying Islamic aesthetics.

  • Kershnee Velloo

    Artist: Kershnee Velloo, married, mother to “smarty box” children, believes in fairy magic and an assortment of wondrous creatures. She is a self-taught artist and a student of natural healing. Although a jack of most trades, she is an accountant by profession.