Qualifications
2021 Nine-week online course in De-Mystifying Mindfulness, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
2020 MA Fine Arts (Cum laude), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, S.A
Moderator, Open Window Institute, Centurion, Gauteng, S.A
Lecturer (Expressive and Narrative Drawing), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
2018 Lecturer (Figure Drawing and Journaling Workshop), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
2017 BA Information Design (Honours Research Distinction, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Awards & Achievements
2020 RMB Talent Unlocked Alumni Program, Johannesburg, South Africa
Centre for Human Rights (Communications and Advocacy Division), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, S.A
2018 National Youth Development Agency (Government Grant)
Collaborations
2024 The Helsinki Notebooks - Global Dispatches Against Fascism and the Far Right: Sacred Activism By Octavia Roodt, The University of Helsinki, Finland
2022 Klyntji: Vier Breytenbach-gedigte vir mistieke ervaring By Octavia Roodt, South Africa
Information and Digital Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, Disconnect (#Tech4Rights Expo) The Expression, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2020 Constitution Hill Trust: We Made The Constitution - An Animated Story of the Making of the South African Constitution
Toon53 Productions: Illustration of Queen of Silver Linings Official Music Video by Amy Allen
2019 Klyntji: Published poems and drawings
Residencies
2020 'Cité de la bande dessinée (The International City of Comics), Maison des Auteurs (Authors House)', Angoulême, France
2019 '50ty/50ty Print Studio', Cape Town, South Africa
'The Rare Library', Franschoek, Cape Town, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2024 'De Drukkerij: Nouveaux talents de l’atelier' Curated by Kurt Morissens, Belgian Comics Centre, Brussels
'Pain Is An Unavoidable Side Effect', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Let them eat Pap,' ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 'Grafixx Zine Fest', De Studio, Antwerpen, Brussels
'De kunstenaars van Aline', WG Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Kris-mis', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Medium' A Duo Exhibition, Turbine Art Fair 2023 (ESCAP3 Gallery), Hyde Park, Johannesburg, S.A
'Is Ons Nog ‘n Ding? [Are We Still a Thing?]' Curated By Lawrence Lemanoana and Johan Stegmann, in collaboration with Dineke van der Walt and the KKNK, Prince Vintcent-building, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa
'Night Swimming', ESCAP3 Gallery, Online, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 'Kijkspel', Cultuurhuis de Bijl Gallery, Dorp 1, Zoersel, Belgium
2022 'Friends of Valkenberg Trust Benefit', ESCAP3 Gallery, Online, Cape Town, South Africa
'Is Ons Nog ‘n Ding? [Are We Still a Thing?]' Curated By Lawrence Lemanoana and Johan Stegmann, in collaboration with Dineke van der Walt and KKNK, Lizamore and Associates Gallery, Johannesburg, S.A
'Know Thyself', ESCAP3 Gallery, Online, Cape Town, S.A
2021 'FAMILY DISSEMBLANCE: a coda to gendering in Afrikaner nationalist discourse' Curated by Dr Annemi Conradie, The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) & The University of Johannesburg, Online
'Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it), ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, S.A
'The Serapeum Way', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2020 'Cloud-cuckoo-land' Curated By Fleur de Bondt, Candice Berman Gallery, Johannesburg, S.A
'LAN[d]', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'RMB Talent Unlocked Alumni Program', Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Investec Cape Town Art Fair' (50ty/50ty Print Studio), Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, S.A
2019 'RMB Talent Unlocked Mentorship Program', Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 Trent Gallery, Waterkloof, Pretoria, South Africa
Now Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Art on Avenues, Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa
Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Offset Culture, Johannesburg, South Africa
Press
2024 NRC: 'Dutch comics magazine 'Aline' wins international comics prize Angoulême'
2022 Flanders DC Magazine – Artist Interview '9 reasons to be a creative entrepreneur according to Octavia Roodt'
Artthrob Review: 'Violence and longing: Is Ons Nog ‘n Ding?' at Lizamore & Associates By Fadzai Muchemwa
BusinessDay: 'Is the Afrikaner still a Thing?' By Chris Thurman
2021 Nintheart 2.0: 'Interview' By Thierry Groensteen
La Charente libre: 'The artist paints her thought-provoking dreams' By Henry Girard
2020 Daily Maverick: 'Artists’ take on Bill of Rights marks 24th anniversary of the Constitution' By Vanessa September
Between10&5: 'Designer Octavia Roodt: On Simple Line Drawings, Graphic Novels and Complex S.A Narratives' By Nikki Zakkas
2019 Assemblage – YouTube: 'Meet the artist: Octavia Roodt'
2017 Ourfriends: Interview – 'Octavia Roodt is the Route of all Illustrative Talent' By Amy
