Vulvasphere – an exhibition
Beneath the surface lies a world often hidden — a landscape of curves, stories, and power waiting to be seen and felt. 
Vulvasphere – Woman Beyond the Surface
invites you into this intimate realm, where artists reveal the beauty, diversity, and complexity of the female body with reverence and courage.
Join us for the OPENING on Thursday, June 5th, 6pm at Lumi Gallery Hout Bay, Cape Town.
This exhibition honors the vulva not as a subject of silence or shame, but as a radiant symbol of femininity, awareness, and strength. Through art and dialogue, we open space for connection, healing, and celebration—inviting every visitor to witness and embrace the stories that shape us all.
Workshops
June 7 – Vulva Painting
June 8 – Tote Painting
June 8 – Vulva Castings
June 10 – Vulva Painting
June 12 – Menopause Musings
June 13 – Female Pleasure
June 14 – Rewriting Pleasure
June 14 – Sensory Painting
Vulva Painting Workshop with Amy Keevy
In this guided painting workshop, we explore the vulva as a symbol of creativity, power, and ancient feminine wisdom. Drawing on iconography and using abstract watercolour techniques, participants are invited to reconnect with themselves and express their unique inner landscapes through art.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
June 7, 10am-12:30pm
Spaces are limited to 8.
Cost: R650 per person (includes all materials and light refreshments)
More information and tickets here.
Tote Painting Workshop with Yvette Hess
Join artist Yvette Hess for a playful, powerful workshop where we reclaim space through image and text. Using fabric paint, stamps, and scraps, we’ll decorate tote bags with fruit-inspired vulva imagery and the words My Vulva, My Power.
This is a hands-on, no-perfection-needed space to create, connect, and express. Whether you’re bold, quiet, curious, or nervous—come as you are. No experience needed. Just bring yourself and a willingness to explore.
All materials provided. You'll take home your own unique, decorated tote bag.
Art is protest. Art is healing. Art is personal. Let’s make it together.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
June 8, 10am-1pm
Spaces are limited to 8.
Cost: R300 per person (includes all materials) .
More information and tickets here.
Private Vulva Casting Sessions with Jessica Adams
Turn your body into art.
In these intimate, one-on-one sessions, Jessica Adams gently guides you through the process of casting your vulva in plaster – a powerful practice of witnessing, honouring, and reclaiming your body on your own terms.
Whether it's a celebration, a milestone, or a quiet moment of self-recognition, each casting is a tactile tribute to your story, your shape, your sovereignty.
Absolutely no prior experience needed – just openness, curiosity, and a bit of courage.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
June 8, 6-10pm (by appointment only)
Cost dependent on product.
Please reach out via email to book your slot.
Vulva Painting Workshop with Amy Keevy
In this guided painting workshop, we explore the vulva as a symbol of creativity, power, and ancient feminine wisdom. Drawing on iconography and using abstract watercolour techniques, participants are invited to reconnect with themselves and express their unique inner landscapes through art.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
June 10, 6-8pm
Spaces are limited to 8.
Cost: R650 per person (includes all materials and light refreshments)
More information and tickets here.
Menopause Musings Workshop with Dr Fumi Kokoali & Dr Natalie Clarke
Join Dr Fumi and Dr Nat for an evening of honest, open conversation about perimenopause and menopause — what’s really happening, what’s not being said, and how to take care of yourself through it all.
The two women’s health GPs passionate about cutting through the noise, debunking the myths, and bringing clarity to this important phase of life. Whether you’re feeling a bit off, totally overwhelmed, or just curious — this space is for you.
No slides, no lectures — just real talk, some wine, a few nibbles, and the chance to ask anything. From HRT to hot flushes, anxiety to exercise, we’ll unpack it all.
This is about understanding your body, supporting each other, and starting conversations that deserve to be heard.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
Spaces are limited to 15.
June 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: R450 per person (including drinks and nibbles)
More information and tickets here.
Play Time – An Interactive Evening on Female Pleasure
with Nu Davidson, Sari Cohen & Jessica Adams
What if pleasure was more about play and pleasure than performance?
Join Nu Davidson (Liquid Gold Lube), Sari Cohen (Allure Sensuality), and Jessica Adams (Isca.Rosa) for a fun, exploratory evening on the many textures of female pleasure — from lube to toys, from Bodysex to embodied connection.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
Spaces are limited to 15.
June 13, 6-8pm
Cost: R450 per person (includes light refreshments and snacks)
More information and tickets here.
Rewriting Pleasure: A Guided Writing Workshop with Nicole Biondi
What stories have you inherited about pleasure? What rules have you internalised about what you should or shouldn’t enjoy?
This gentle, guided writing workshop invites you to explore the broader landscape of pleasure - not as something solely sexual, but as a gateway to joy, aliveness, curiosity, and creative expression.
Through sensory prompts, reflective writing, and soft moments of sharing, we’ll begin to unearth and perhaps re-story the beliefs that shape how we experience pleasure in our everyday lives.
Absolutely no writing experience is needed—just a willingness to be present with your own unfolding.
Come as you are. Leave with a sentence, a sensation, or a small reclaimed joy.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
Spaces are limited to 8.
June 14, 11am-1pm
Cost: R300 per person (includes light refreshments)
More information and tickets here.
Crossed Wires Sensory Painting Workshop with Jade Jacobsohn
Wires is a sensory painting workshop that explores how our senses blend - a phenomenon known as cross-modal perception. It’s why some sounds feel warm, some flavours seem sharp, and certain textures stir unexpected memories.
Through a series of guided exercises - tasting wine, listening to music, and feeling texture - you’ll translate your responses into colour, shape, and form.
You won’t be painting what things look like, but what they feel like.
The result is something personal, expressive - and often, unexpectedly beautiful.
Part of the Vulvasphere exhibition and workshop series.
No painting experience needed. Just curiosity, and a willingness to follow the thread.
June 14, 2-4pm
Cost: R350 per person (includes all materials and wine tasting)
More information and tickets here.
June 15, 11am-1pm
Cost: R350 per person (includes all materials and wine tasting)
More information and tickets here.
Meet the Artists
Jessica Adams
Jessica Adams is a sex counselor, intimacy coach, and educator whose work centers on embodiment, emotional wellness, and relational healing. Through individual sessions, group workshops, and public education, she helps people—especially women—reconnect with their bodies, boundaries, and desires. Her creative practice is rooted in the belief that pleasure, presence, and emotional literacy are essential tools for personal and collective transformation. 
Amy Keevy
Amy Keevy is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer living on the Garden Route. Working across watercolor, ink, embroidery, and lens-based media, her art explores themes of femininity, grief, nature, and transformation. Amy’s intuitive, fluid style embraces softness and surrender, using natural materials and gentle repetition to invite reflection on what it means to feel deeply and live vulnerably. Alongside her art practice, she supports creatives through brand storytelling and visual identity work. 
Yvette Hess
Yvette Hess is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and mental health advocate based in Ladismith, South Africa. Her work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, and text, and is often rooted in her lived experience of bipolar disorder, addiction, and recovery. Through her studio, Yah! Fine Art, and co-founded gallery, Lost and Found, Yvette champions underrepresented artists from the Kannaland region. Her creative expression gives voice to grief, shame, and healing—making space for difficult truths and tender reclamation. 
Marie Kenny
Marie Kenny is a lens-based artist and creative coach from Lyon, France, now based in Cape Town. Her photographic work explores identity, neurodivergence, and radical self-acceptance, often through intimate self-portraiture and visual journaling. With a focus on cyclical healing, Marie’s art captures the body as both witness and storyteller. Beyond her personal practice, she supports artists and entrepreneurs through one-on-one coaching that cultivates self-belief and creative agency. 
Carla Classen
Carla Classen is a Cape Town-based artist and writer working across performance, installation, poetry, and mixed media. Her practice explores how trauma, gender, and memory are held and released within domestic spaces. By repurposing household objects, text, and ritual, she reclaims the private realm as a site of survival, resistance, and repair. Carla’s work often invites audiences into deeply personal, yet universally resonant acts of witnessing and reflection. 
Nicole Biondi
Nicole Biondi is a Cape Town-based poet, performer, facilitator, and MC whose work lives at the intersection of creativity, care, and systems change. She founded the pioneering Verses Spoken Word Sessions in 2004—a monthly event that helped catalyse Cape Town’s spoken word movement—and released South Africa’s first spoken word album in 2007. Nicole has performed alongside acclaimed artists such as Neo Muyanga, Antjie Krog, and The Last Poets. Today, she brings her gift for storytelling and ‘dot-connecting’ into her consultancy, The Wayfindery, helping people and organisations navigate complexity with clarity and imagination. 
Sophie Smith
Sophie Smith is a South African lens-based artist and photojournalist whose work explores connection, transformation, and the quiet power of daily life. Through documentary and self-portrait photography, she reflects on identity, motherhood, and emotional resilience—capturing images that feel both raw and poetic. Her work has been exhibited locally and abroad, and is recognised for its gentle intimacy and evocative use of natural light. Sophie’s visual language invites viewers to pause, feel, and find beauty in the overlooked. 
CJordan
Chelsea Jordan Horn is a multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and activist whose work celebrates the beauty, power, and resilience of womxn of color. Through painting, performance, and storytelling, she centers body positivity, radical self-love, and joyful resistance. Her practice is both deeply personal and unapologetically political—an invitation to reject societal norms and embrace pleasure, presence, and power. Chelsea’s vibrant energy and lived experience infuse her art with boldness, softness, and a fierce devotion to liberation. 
Brendan Adams
Brendan Adams is a Cape Town-born musician and composer whose work blends soul, jazz, folk, and blues into rich, emotive soundscapes. With over 20 years of experience performing and recording both locally and abroad, he has collaborated with artists such as Hugh Masekela and Jonathan Butler. His music carries themes of longing, joy, and resilience. For this exhibition, Brendan composed a sound piece incorporating authentic audio expressions of pleasure—creating a layered sonic experience rooted in embodiment and intimacy. 
Meet your Workshop Hosts
Jade Jacobsohn
Jade Jacobsohn is a South African artist, anthropologist, and systems thinker whose creative practice explores the intersection of perception, memory, and meaning. With over 15 years’ experience working across the African continent in education, environmental sustainability, and behaviour change, Jade brings a deep curiosity about how humans make sense of the world — through their senses, through stories, and through systems.
Her academic grounding in Anthropology, Environment and Development (University College London) informs both her artistic and facilitation work. Crossed Wires draws from this blend — inviting participants to explore the hidden links between sensation and memory, and to translate fleeting inner experiences into visual form.
Dr Fumi Kokoali
GP | Women’s Health Advocate | Menopause Specialist
Dr. Fumi Kokoali is a GP with over 25 years of experience in family and emergency medicine across South Africa and the UK. She has a special focus on perimenopause, menopause, and the hormonal shifts that impact women’s health and wellbeing.
Known for her warm, compassionate approach, Fumi is passionate about making sure women feel heard, supported, and empowered to take charge of their health. Her mission is simple: to break the silence around menopause and help women feel confident, informed, and never alone in the process.