Based in Cape Town, Heidi Salzwedel is a practicing artist and an Art and Design educator. She obtained a Fine Arts degree through Rhodes University, Makhanda (2009). She completed her MA degree through Stellenbosch University (2015) in which she focused on public art interventions, sculpture, film and arts education. Her time is spent juggling a number of passions; art, teaching, writing, research, and developing community. Heidi has exhibited internationally in Italy and the Netherlands and in group exhibitions nationally such as the PPC Cement Finalists exhibition (film category) in Cape Town in 2016, as well as the Absa L’Atelier top 100 exhibition (sculpture category) in Johannesburg in 2010. She has exhibited regularly at the National Arts Festival with 40 Stones; a faith based visual arts collective/network. Currently she, along with others, is connecting artists in Cape Town as part of KRUX-South.