Biography

 Lyndi Sales is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. For the past couple of 
 years, she has been working on a series of installations and artworks that seek to
 investigate the circumstances surrounding the controversial Helderberg plane crash.
 These constructions, made of intricately cut and pinned paper and rubber often 
 shed light on the fragile nature of our existence, temporality and how  chance plays 
 a role in our lives.
 
 She has held solo shows at the Goodman Gallery in South Africa as well as a solo
 show at the Galerie Maria Lund in Paris and Toomey Tourell in San Francisco. She
 has participated in group shows in South Africa, Austria, London, Holland and 
 Denmark. Her works can be found in major collections in South Africa as well as 
 collection in the USA and Europe. She teaches as a visiting lecturer at Michaelis 
 School of fine art, University of Cape Town. Sales received both her BFA and MFA
 from University of Cape Town both with distinction. Sales was a merit award winner
 in the ABSA Atelier. She was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center grant and a 
 recipient of the Frans Maserrel Center, Belgium residency.