After completing my Honours degree in English I started out a career in media and publishing, writing for lifestyle, art and design magazines, along with various copywriting and editing jobs. As my career has evolved, from magazine editor to online content manager, digital project manager (or ‘product’ manager in the tech world) to content agency owner, gallerist and head of digital for a lifestyle publication, I have always continued to write in some shape or form.
Here are links to some portfolio pieces from my archive as well as my most recent work below that.
In addition to being the editor of One Small Seed from 2009 (issue 16) to 2011 (issue 22) I wrote many features and artist profiles for the magazine including:
Written at the close of a year of pandemic, lockdowns, alcohol bans, Zoom parties, hand sanitizer, lounge yoga, a little too much Trevor Noah and John Oliver, and far too much isolation! In a time of the global decline of identity-forming structures – geographical boundaries, culture, tradition,......
Speakers: Sarah Jayne Fell, Lerato Sengadi & Carin Bester, chaired by Carissa Cupido. ACTIVISM & SOCIAL CHANGE: HOW ARE INDIVIDUALS IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY FOSTERING CHANGE? Webinar panel discussion for 10and5.com, 10 August 2020 – Creative Women Month series, presented by Carissa Cupido featuring guest speakers, Sarah......
“For most of history Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf When I started ANON. as a pop-up gallery in January 2019, I was inspired by this Virginia Woolf quote. I’d never thought of myself as a feminist, and yet this powerful line had sat with me......
(exhibition release) ANON.Pop Up Art Show presents RISE A curated exhibition of artists, photographers, activists & poets “Still, like air, I rise…” – Maya Angelou LAUNCHPop Up Exhibition24 – 28 October 2019Salt Circle Arcade NEW SHOW: EXHIBITION & SPECIAL EVENT16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence25 November......
(exhibition release) 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town21 to 25 February 2019 “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” – Virginia Woolf Introducing ANON. ANON. is a new contemporary gallery concept launching at this debut show in February 2019. Conceived, curated and produced by Sarah Jayne Fell, ANON.......
At AGI Open in 2013, I interviewed the great Stefan Sagmeister, graphic designer and filmmaker. Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer living and working in New York City. At AGI Open 2013, he spoke about doing both experimental and client-based work, and the effect it has......
In 2013 I went to London to attend the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) Open Conference held at the Barbican Theatre, and got to interview a world great: graphic designer, typographer and artist Paula Scher. She’s also a partner at Pentagram Design in New York. From the signage......
In 2013 I went to London to attend the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) Open Conference held at the Barbican Theatre, and got to interview one of the world’s greatest living graphic designers and design teachers, Michael Bierut. He’s also a partner at Pentagram Design in New York.......
Margaret Calvert is a graphic designer famously known for her design of road signs and typefaces, including the font Calvert. I interviewed her in London in 2013 at the AGI Open conference. Margaret Calvert is a graphic designer famously known for her design of road signs and......
An artist profile written for the artist’s debut exhibition in Los Angeles in 2013. This was published as a catalogue-style book in print. Memory is essential to art. Art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist refers to a continuously articulated struggle between the past, the present and the future.......
Exhibition release for Artist Management Company SIMJEE Textor. KNOWN GALLERY: SEPTEMBER 14th – 28th, 2013 Known Gallery is proud to present Thanks for Nothing, an exhibition featuring new works by American artists Judith Supine and Alia Shawkat, and curated by Naheed Simjee (Simjee Textor). The exhibition will......
An artist profile written for the artist. Republished in Sawubona, South African Airways’ in-flight magazine, March 2013. Faith47 is a South African artist whose work has become part of the fabric of cities around the world. The beauty she finds in the brokenness of abandoned spaces resonates......