Hanien Conradie is an earth artist known for her diverse land-based creative practice centered around ‘sense of place’ and ‘belonging’. Her practices include landscape paintings in natural pigments, studies in ink on paper, ritualistic performances and ceremony and meditative pieces in natural pigments; all in relation to special places she knows well. 

Hanien is an active contributor to earth concerned interdisciplinary symposiums, online organizations and artists’ residencies where ecological research is conducted through creative practice. She has a Master’s degree in Fine Art (with specialization in painting and ecology), holds a degree in Architecture and she is a teacher who has taught at tertiary institutions such as the Michaelis School of Art (UCT) and at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She has participated in numerous ecological exhibitions located in Southern Africa, Europe and the USA. In addition, Hanien runs private workshops focused on the discovery of new ways of relating to natural places, to other human beings and to herself through creative practice.