Career
Grobler works in a diverse range of media, embracing bright colour and often incorporating traditional craft techniques to create site-specific work. She is represented in Cape Town by BRUNDYN + GONSALVES. Grobler received her Masters Degree in Fine Art with distinction from Stellenbosch University in 1999, after which she worked towards developing a signature aesthetic involving bright colours and diverse media. Grobler often incorporates traditional craft techniques such as beadwork ( recently she has collaborated with The Quebeka Bead Studio to produce beaded works.
She has participate in close to a hundred group shows locally (in South Africa)and abroad - in Italy, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, the United States, and Finland.
She attended residencies and workshops in the United States, Norway, Finland and Switzerland. Her work resides in many notable collections including the Jeanetta Blignaut Art Consultancy Collection.
Grobler has also been an art critic and regular contributor for daily Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger. Recent Developments
In 2012 Grobler unveiled "White Termite", her most recent solo exhibition, at BRUNDYN + GONSALVES. This is her 9th solo exhibition.
Grobler"s work was also included in "ALPTRAUM!", a 2011 group drawing exhibition which travelled between Cell Project Space, London.
Deutscher Künstlerbund Projektraum, Berlin. The Company, Los Angeles and "Blank Projects", Cape Town. Grobler collaborated with Jeanne Hoffman on the public art project, "Afrikkan Tähti" at the Rauma Art Museum in Finland in 2007.
A blog was created to document this project
In 2006, Grobler co-developed WASTE AT WORK – a waste minimisation business/art collaborative project - with Jeanetta Blignaut. Grobler co-founded Cape Town-based project space blank projects with Jonathan Garnham in 2005.
