Burn the Script
by
Thelma van Rensburg
25 April 2025
"People hand out roles like costumes, expecting
you to squeeze into something
too small, too scratchy, too unlike you.
Take it off.
Burn the script.
Say the lines you were meant to say.
And this time, don't pause to check their faces.
Don't study their reactions like a performance review.
Let them squirm under the weight of your truth.
Let them stutter through excuses for why they never saw you before.
Let them feel the absence of the version of you they expected.
And don't you dare make yourself small to ease their discomfort.
Stand there in your full, unfiltered power-and watch how the world rearranges
itself around the real you."
Autistic Ang @Autisticang38
Being creative means being free to play, to play means experimenting - what happens if I do this? What happens if I don't follow the rules? Being in creative play means there's no such thing as a mistake - whatever happens it's ok!
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Van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969. She always had an interest in art, but did not pursue it as a career until 2004. She has a B.A Honours degree in Physical education and Psychology. In 2004 she enrolled for a B.Tech degree in Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology which she completed in 2007. In 2013 she re-enrolled at the University of Pretoria for the final year of the BA degree in Fine Arts and completed the year cum laude. In 2016 she completed a Masters of Arts degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, titled "Uneasy bodies, femininity and death: Representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks"
Since graduating, she has participated in eight solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout South Africa. Her work has featured in prestigious competitions such as Sasol New Signatures, Thami Mnyele Fine Arts awards and the Sanlam Vuleka Arts competition. She also attended three artist residencies in Berlin and Mexico from 2015 to 2018.
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Thelma van Rensburg
"Playing card masquerades"
2025
Mixed media collage on playing cards
6.2cm x 9cm each
Unframed
R 750 for the set
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Thelma van Rensburg
"Crooked star"
2025
Oil pastel, oil pencil and water colour pencil on paper
15cm x 21cm
Unframed
R 1 000
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