history
She finds stories that reflect the multiple layering of human history on our South African landscape.
Her PhD explored the role that the process of curation and engagement with the archive and historical representation can play in heritage and transformation work.

On the Solms-Delta estate, she researched the socio-economic and cultural heritage of the farm and surrounding Winelands region, highlighting the often marginalized voices in relation to dominant narratives that have had a role to play in making South Africa what it is today.
She conceptualized and designed the compelling Museum van de Caab, as well as its satellite exhibition ‘Music van de Caab’. And totally revamped the Franschhoek Huguenot Memorial Museum. 

Tracey has worked on a number of historically significance reports for properties all over the Western Cape with teams of archaeologists, ecologists, heritage architects, and community leaders. Making sure all people, especially from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, have access to history and are involved themselves in the structuring of their own heritage and identity discourses, is part of her personal and professional objective.

And her skills set includes researching family histories and geneaologies – particularly relevant because slave labour was such deeply entrenched part of the Cape’s early history. She brings her passion to light in the most compelling way in a number of beguiling locations in the Cape winelands.