Cape Town–based artist Lyndi Sales (b.1973) explores perception, consciousness and systems of connectivity through a multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, installation, photography and works on paper. Her work investigates the relationship between internal states of awareness and external structures of knowledge, often drawing on scientific, philosophical and spiritual frameworks.
Sales’ practice is grounded in an interest in how perception shapes experience. Through geometric forms, optical structures and immersive installations, she creates works that invite a heightened physical and sensory awareness, encouraging viewers to become more conscious of their own presence in space. Pattern, repetition and shifting visual fields are used to explore the ways in which the mind interprets reality and constructs meaning.
In recent years, Sales’ work has increasingly engaged with altered states of consciousness and expanded modes of perception. Drawing on meditation practices and research into alternative healing traditions, her work considers the relationship between the body, awareness and the unseen systems that connect individuals to broader ecological and cosmic networks.
Sales holds both a BFA (1995) and MFA (2000) from the University of Cape Town, graduating with distinction. She has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and at Stellenbosch University. She was a Merit Award winner in the ABSA Atelier, a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Grant, and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in the United States and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium.
Sales has presented work internationally, including participation in the Venice Biennale, alongside exhibitions in South Africa, Europe and the United States.
