Jo Roets is a sculptor, painter, and mould maker living in Cape Town. Her clay artworks are air-dried  “light relief sculptures”,  catching the environment, being changed by the capricious turns of atmospheric light. This interest in light is informed by her studies of art direction and production design. She worked in film for a number of years and lectured extensively on painting, prosthetics, special effects, props fabrication, sculpting, mould-making and casting before dedicating herself to her art full-time in 2017.  In 2021, Roets was among the Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Art Award winners and was awarded the coveted international Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. Her works (part lace, part spine, part light, part coral fossil, part spore, part pebble)  are exhibited both locally and internationally.