WILMA CRUISE

(b. 1945, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Wilma Cruise is a South African sculptor and visual artist. She works mainly with fired clay in her renderings of life-sized human and animal figures. Her sculpture installations and exhibitions are often accompanied by works on paper – large format drawings. She has also completed several series of print editions. A number of her ceramic sculptures have been successfully translated into bronze editions.

Themes explored in Cruise’s work include the interface between humans and animals and existential conditions of muteness – silent, internal battles in the search for meaning.

Cruise has had over twenty solo exhibitions, curated others and completed a number of public works including the National Monument to the Women of South Africa at the Union Buildings, Pretoria and The Memorial to the Slaves in Cape Town in collaboration with Gavin Younge.

Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections throughout South Africa. She has participated in the Havanna Biennale, the Florence Biennale and the prestigious 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in Seoul, Korea.

Cruise recently completed her doctoral studies at the University of Stellenbosch in the field of art and animal ethics; she is a fellow of Ceramics South Africa and writes extensively in the field of ceramics.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
The Animal - what a word!, Woordfees Festival Artist, Potchefstroom, South Africa

2022
Coterie of Cats, Tokara, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2020
Cruise at Krut 2020, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa
1984: Fight or Flight? Recycle Re-use Re-con(figure), Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2019
Some are more equal than others, RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel, 3– 20 March.

2018 Ha De Da in collaboration with Louis Olivier, IsArt Gallery, Franschoek, 14 January – 18 February.

2016
The 8th Square, Cavalli Gallery, Cavalli Wine Estate, Somerset West, 6 November – 4 December.
Six impossible things before breakfast, Gallery University of Stellenbosch 9 November – 24 December.

2015 Red Queen to Play, Clay Museum Rust-en-Vrede Gallery Durbanville.
Advice from a Caterpillar David Krut Projects, Arts on Main Johannesburg and Cape Town.

2014
Menagerie at Tokara. The sculpture garden at Tokara Wine Estate, 16 March - October.
Curated by Ilse Schemers.

2013 - 2014
Will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, 27 June to 7 July and Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein July – August 2014.

2012
The Alice Diaries. Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg 24th July – 25th August.

2011
Wilma Cruise at Wildekrans Country House. Houhoek, 29 October to Easter 2012.
Alice and The Animals. University of the North West Art Gallery, Potchefstroom, 13 – 31 October.

2011
The Animals in Alice. iArt Gallery, Wembley Square, Cape Town. 19 July – 17 August.

2007 to 2009
Cocks, Asses &…(I can’t hear), University of Johannesburg Art Gallery 7 - 28 November 2007; Kizo Art Gallery, Durban, 20 June – 28 July 2008; White River Art Gallery

2009
Oliewenhuis Art Museum (Reservoir), Bloemfontein, 7 July – 16 August
iArt Gallery, Cape Town, 9 November – 11 December 2009.

2008
SPLIT LON.NY.JHB. David Krut Projects, Johannesburg.

2006
Cruise at Krut: Wilma Cruise Works on Paper, Johannesburg, 5 August – 23 September.

2001
HYS. SUSP. text/image/sound. Millennium Gallery, Pretoria May 30 - June 27.

2000
rapRACK. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 10 June - 1 July.

1998
Mirroring ourselves (with Regi Bardavid). AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 16 November - 5 December. 

1997
Continuous projection. African Window Museum, Pretoria, 30 September – 30 October.

1996
John’s wife. First Gallery, Parkhurst, Johannesburg, 23 April - 11 May.

1993
Nicholas - October 1990. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, April 17 – May 8th.

1991
Jacobs and Liknaitsky Gallery, Cape Town.

1990 Untitled: (everlasting nothingness made visible), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 7 – 27 October.

1987
Portrait of my friends and other animals. Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria, 2 – 14 August.

1985
Sylvester in September. Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria 15 – 27 September.
All those lonely people. Things Gallery, Johannesburg, 27 May – 10 June.

1983
Collection. Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria. 30 January – 11 February.

AS CURATOR

2018
TableScapes. Ceramic Exhibition (Hennie Meyer, Ann Marais, Clementina van der Walt, Wiebke von Bismark & Wilma Cruise) at FynArts Gallery, Hermanus, 11 December 2018 – 13

2015
Outdoors at Alphen in conjunction with Ceramics Southern Africa. Alphen Hotel, Cape Town

2014
Outdoors at Alphen in conjunction with Ceramics Southern Africa. Alphen Hotel, Cape Town

2004
Earthworks/Claybodies. (Deborah Bell, Wilma Cruise, Guy du Toit, Petros Gumbi). Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch - September 2004

2003
Earthworks/Claybodies. (Deborah Bell, Wilma Cruise, Guy du Toit, Josephine Ghesa). Pretoria Art Museum, 16 March - 26 May and Standard Bank Gallery, 2004

1999
(Re)figuring abstraction. (Regi Bardavid, Jenni Stadler, Pascual Tarazona), Sandton Civic Gallery, October - November.

1995
Space/(Dis)Place. Africus Biennale, Johannesburg, (as artist and curator).

1992
Edges. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (as artist and curator).

1991
The contemporary vessel. Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston, (as artist and curator).

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Director's Selection, Everard Read, London, UK

2021
Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Oasis: 25th Anniversary Group Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2020
Confessionale, Deepest Darkest Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, 24 October - 5 December 2020.
What on Earth, RK Contemporary Riebeek Kasteel, 4 Oct 2020 - 1 Nov 2020
Against Interpretation?, Everard Read London, May–June 2020.
Staring Straight to the Future, Everard Read London, 3 – 23 April 2020.
Bronze, Steel, Stone and Bone, Everard Read London, 28 February – 16 May 2020.

2019
Connected by Fire, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, 12 November – 13 December.

2017
Bronze, Steel and Stone II Everard Read, London.

2016
Bronze, Steel and Stone Circa, London, 9 September – 8 October.
Animal Exhibition of sculpture at Tokara Delicatessen curated by Ilse Schermers Tokara, Winter.
Johannesburg Art Fair, stand curated by Everard Read, 8 – 11 September.
Turbine Art Fair, stand curated by ArtSource, 14 – 17 July.
Sculpture on the cliffs FynArts Festival Hermanus, June.
Summer Sculpture Everard Read, Mt Nelson, Cape Town 2015 – 2016.
That Art Fair, stand curated by Maik Kobald, February.

2015
Bronze, Steel and Stone Everard Read, Johannesburg, November.
(In) The Nature of Things. FynArts Festival Hermanus, 5–16 June 2015.
Slow Violence. GUS Stellenbosch, 30 March – 23 May 2015.
The Princess in the Veld, Curated by Adele Adendorff, Klein Karoo Nasionale kunstefees
Outshoorn 2–12 April.
Carved Relief Print Group Exhibition, David Krut Projects Johannesburg February
IS Sculpture @ Tokara, December 2014 – March 2015
Summer Sculpture III Everard Read, Mt Nelson, Cape Town 2014 – 2015

2014
Play at Nirox, Johannesburg. 11 October.

2013
7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Korea, September 2013 – January 2014
Everard Read Centenary Exhibition, Johannesburg. September
Re-envisioning the Anglo-Boer (South African) War. Curated by Angela de Jesus and Janine Allen. Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery and The War Museum of the Boer Republics,
Bloemfontein. July.
Alice and Wonderland. Kaemer Family Galley, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA April 5 – 28.
Figuration and Negation. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. Feb - March

2012
The Rainbow Nation: Contemporary Sculpture from South Africa. Beelden aan Zee and Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Holland, 29 May to 9 September.

2011
Selected Editions and Works on Paper. David Krut Projects, Cape Town 10 December to 28 January
Horse: Multiple Views of a Singular Beast. Curated by Ricky Burnett. Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg, 8 September to 30 October.
IS Sculpture at Tokara Delicatessen. Curated by Ilse Schemers. Nr Stellenbosch. 30 October.
Cruise, Kentridge, Ox, Victor, Wilsenach. Curated by Basie Botha. Trent Gallery at Cameo Framers, Pretoria, 21 October – 2 November
Wilma Cruise, Frikkie Eksteen and Robert Hodgins. Curated by Basie Botha. Trent Gallery at Cameo Framers, Pretoria, 14 April – 4 May.
Art on Paper. Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, 18 October
The 2011 Sovereign African Art Prize. Johannesburg Art Fair, Tokara, Artscape.
Le Quartier Francais Is Art and Ebony Literary Festival Exhibition. Franschhoek, 13 - 21 May.

2010
HERITAGE 2010. Curated by Albie Bailey, Paarl, 23 September - 09 October.
Painters who Print. The Gallery at Grande Provence, Franschhoek, 31 October – 1 December.
L'Origine du monde - this is not a porn song. Curated by Paul Boulitreau, Aardklop National Art Festival, 27th August- 2nd September.
Bodies in Transition. Curated by Elfrieda Dreyer. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. 4 February – 7 March.

2009
Transitions. Gallery 2, Johannesburg. 8 May.
The Urban Animal. Curated by Sonja Britz and Ann-Marie Tully. ABSA Gallery Johannesburg, 7th - 29th October. 2009 Outdoor
Sculpture Exhibition St Lorient Pretoria, 28 August – 26 September and University of Johannesburg October 2009. Curated by Gordon Froud. 2009 “3” (with Guy du Toit and Gordon Froud) NaudeModern, Pretoria. 2008 Space Fusion

2007 - 2008
Artspace, Johannesburg, 5 March - 29 March.
Contemporay 2007. Stellenbosch, 12 December - 20 February; JAG 15 March – 31 May;
Durban Art Museum 15 August – 1 November. 2007 Montage.
Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg, 13 November.

2007
Rendezvous – Focus Sculpture. Redhill 8 – 16 December.
Sculpture Garden Grande Provence, Franschoek, September.
Little Deaths (with Elfrieda Dreyer and Guy du Toit curated by Elfrieda Dreyer) Fried Contemporary, Pretoria 13 February – 10 March and Bell Roberts, Lorensford Estate.

2006
Roles/Robes at Fried Contemporary, Pretoria,15 July – 5 August.
Home Sweet Home. Strijdom Gallery, George.

2005
Works on paper: Collaborative Prints from David Krut Print Workshop, Franchise, Johannesburg, 24 November – 15 December.
David Krut Collaborations: 25 Years of Prints and Multiples, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 30 June to 9 July 2005
Art from Two Metropoles. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, 30 July – 19 August.

2003
Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town.
Male Order. Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Touring exhibition.
Art Exhibition - The Spacing, UNISA, Sunnyside Campus, Pretoria, 7 September -15 October.
Manuscript Exhibition 4. Boekehuis, Johannesburg, 7 - 28 September.
TransCultural Exchange Coaster Project - Destination the World. Open Window Art Gallery, Pretoria and Trattoria San Lorenzo Rivonia, March 8 – 17.

2001
Biennale Internazionale Dell’arte Contemporanea, Florence, 7 - 16 December.
Observations (with Guy du Toit and Dianne Victor). The Open Window Art Gallery, Pretoria, 12-29 September.
Launch of Millennium II - Johannesburg. Millennium II Gallery, Johannesburg 23 June
M.E. III Manuscripts. Standard Bank Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, 29 June - 5 July.

2000
Conversations….2000. Wordfest, Standard Bank Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown.
Water Colour Society of South Africa, (Guest Exhibitor). Norscot Manor, Sandton October.
Manuscript Ii. Boekehuis, Melville, Johannesburg (Sept. October); Centre For the Book,
Cape Town (December); Oliewenhuis National Museum, Bloemfontein (February - March 20001)

1999
Manuscript Exhibition. Carfax, Johannesburg, 20 November - 4 December; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg and Durban 2000.
The Paper show (curated by Peter Schutz). Goodman Gallery, 10 July - 7 August. Equus, Pretoria, January.

1998
The art of giving. Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, 28 November.
Aardklop, Potchefstroom.
Women’s Day. Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, 22 August.
Buttons curated by Gordon Froud. The Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, 14 July.
Nearer than bronze: works in paper. Sandton Civic Gallery, Sandton, April - May.
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, April.

1997
Havana Biennale, Cuba, April-May.
A little big thing. Erotic miniatures at The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg, SeptemberOctober.

1996
Contemporary South African Art from the South African National Gallery Permanent
Collection, Cape Town, December
An exhibition of books by people who don’t write: Artist’s books from the Ginsburg Collection, Johannesburg Art Gallery, August.
Past and present. Exhibition of past and present UNISA lecturers, Pretoria.
Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Awards, Kempton Park.

1994-5
Havana Biennale, Cuba

1995 Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Awards, Kempton Park.

1994 Anything boxed. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
Exhibition of new work by the 1993 winners of the FNB Vita Now competition. Civic Theatre Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
Exhibition of maquettes and sketches for art commissions. Civic Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg. (Finalist with Russell Scott for The Theatre Horse. Co-awardees - Dianne Victor and Reshada Crouse).
FNB Art Vita Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery (Quarterly Award) Institute of Contemporary Art, Johannesburg.

1993
The joy is in the making. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.

1991
Cape Town Triennial. Traveling exhibition.
Vita Art Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery.

1989
Vita Art Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Artists’ Mirror Competition. Karen McKerron Gallery. (First Prize)

1988
Cape Town Triennial. Traveling exhibition.
Two-person exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston.
Clay plus. UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria.
Detainee Parents’ Support Committee Exhibition. Market Gallery, Johannesburg.

1987 Figurative ceramics and decorated textiles. The Annexe, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Recent trends in ceramics. South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

1984
Teapot exhibition. Things Gallery, Johannesburg.
Invited Potters. NSA Gallery, Durban; William Humphrey Gallery, Kimberly.

1982
An Exhibition of Ceramic Sculpture and Porcelain. (Two-person exhibition), Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg.

1981
In Doors, Out Doors. (Two-person exhibition), Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.
Ersnt de Jongh Gallery, Pretoria.

1980
Six potters explore raku. Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg.
Carriage House Gallery, Johannesburg.
Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.

1979
Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

2009
Artspace Mentorship Programme Mentor: Wilma Cruise. Mentee: Louis Olivier 19 to 30
September.

2007
Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, March (supported by David Krut Projects).
Guest, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

2004
Guest Rhodes Univerisity, Grahamstown, July – September.

1998
Artist-in-residence, Standard Bank Festival of Arts, Grahamstown.

1997
European contemporary art in the point of intersection between contemporary cultures and nations. Ryn, Poland, July 1997 Havana Biennale, Cuba. April-May.

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Iziko (South African National Gallery)
Durban Art Museum
Pretoria Art Museum
University of South Africa Collection
Corobrik Collection
Polokwane Municipal Collection
Billiton
MTN
Constitutional Court
Standard Bank Gallery
Sasol
Sasol University Museum, Stellenbosch
University of Johannesburg
Rand Merchant Bank
University of the North West
War Museum Bloemfontein.
Ellerman House, Cape Town

SITE SPECIFIC WORKS

2020
Kom sit 2020 in The Vertical Animal, curator Gavin Younge as part of Sculpture on the cliffs FynArts Festival, Hermanus, June.

2016
Sculpture on the cliffs FynArts Festival Hermanus, June.

2014
Noordhoek Common November

2013
Trek and Good Grief. Plettenberg Bay Site_Specific Project, August.

2008
The Memorial to the Slaves, Church Square, Cape Town, in collaboration with Gavin Younge.

2006
For the Miners: A Health and Safety Tree. For Switching on the Lights. Anglo American, 4 December 2006, in collaboration with Gavin Younge.
Ancestor. Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria, in collaboration with Gavin Younge.

2004 – 2005
Sheep May Safely Graze: The Return Of The Bultfontein Sheep. Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein.

2004
The Right to Life. Constitutional Court, Johannesburg.

2000
Wathint’ Abafazi Wathint’ Imbokodo; Strike the Woman Strike the Rock.
A Monument to celebrate the women’s march on The Union Buildings on 9th August 1956 (with Marcus Holmes), Union Buildings, Pretoria.

1998
Speaking Loudly: Listening Intently. MTN.
c. 1979 FNB Drilling
1975 Mono Die Engineers

AWARDS

2016
BASA & NAFTA Arts Journalism Silver Award – features.

2011
Sovereign African Art Prize (Shortlisted)

2008
Sasol Wax Art Awards (Shortlisted).

2001
Lorenzo il Magnifico Award 4h place digital art section. Biennale Internazionale Dell’arte Contemporanea, Florence.

2000
Architects’ Project Award for Women’s Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria.

1998
Chancellor’s Club Scholarship, UNISA

1993
Quarterly Vita Art Now Award. (Co-recipient Steven Cohen).

1992
Corobrik Award - 1st Biennial Ceramics Exhibition.
Address in Acknowledgement of Excellence in Service to the Local Cultural Community, Regional Council for Cultural Affairs Southern Transvaal.

1990
Faculty Medal for Academic Achievement, UNISA.

1989
Artist’s Mirror Competition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston.
Standard Bank Merit Award, UNISA.

1986 Transvaal Regional Ceramic Exhibition - Highly Commended 

LIST OF REFERENCES

Adendorff, A. 2015. The Princess in the Veld (Catalogue for Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees Outshoorn 2–12 April.)
Arnold, M. 1996. Women and Art in South Africa. Claremont: David Philip Publishers.
Arnold, M. and Schahmann, B (eds.) 2005. Between Union and Liberation: Women artists in South Africa 1910 to 1994. Eldershot: Ashgate.
Africus: Johannesburg Biennale. 1995. Johannesburg: (Catalogue for an exhibition held in the city of Johannesburg, 28 February to 30 April.)
Becker, R. 2001. The new monument to the women of South Africa. African Arts. Vol XXXIII, Number 4: 2 - 9.
Brown, C. 2002. Male Order. (Catalogue for Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Touring exhibition).
Partridge, M. A Visit to the Exhibition. Catalogue for an Exhibition, Horse: Multiple Views of a Singular Beast curated by Ricky Burnett at Circa Everard Read, Johannesburg, 8 September to 30 October 2011.
Cape Town Triennial. 1991. Cape Town: Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation. (Catalogue produced for a traveling exhibition of South African art.)
Clay +. 1988. Pretoria: University of South Africa. (Catalogue produced for an exhibition held at the Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, 7 July - 20 August): 16.
Coombes, Annie E. 2003. History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press: 106 - 115.
Coombes, Annie E. Skin Deep/ Bodies of Evidence: The Work of Berni Searle in Hassan, Salah M. and Oguibe, Olu. 2001. Authentic/ Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art.
Forum for African Arts, Ithaca, NY: 194.
Contemporary South African art 1985 - 1995 from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection. 1997. (Catalogue for an exhibition held at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 24 December 1996 - 31 March 1997.)
Cruise, W. 2014. Menagerie at Tokara: Some Musings. (Catalogue for an exhibition, Menagerie, at Tokara, nr. Stellenbosch, March to October 2014.)
Cruise, W. 2011. Alice by Wilma Cruise. National Ceramics Quarterly 98 Summer, pp 24-27.
Cruise, W. 2000. rapRACK: Wilma Cruise. National Ceramics Quarterly 53 Spring.
Cruise, W. 1997. Wilma Cruise Sculptures 1990 - 1996. Johannesburg: Wilma Cruise and Russell Lund.
Cruise, W. and Hemp, D. 1991. Contemporary Ceramics in South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Winchester.
Dahn, J. 2006. Sculptor and Figure. Ceramic Review. 219, May/June: 34-35.
de Jesus, A. (ed) 2013. Re-envisioning the Anglo-Boer (South African) War, a catalogue for an exhibition curated by de Jesus, A. and Allen, J. at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery and The War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein. July, Bloemfontein: University of the Free State.
Du Preez, Amanda. 2010. Digital catalogue for Bodies in Transition, a group exhibition curated by Elfrieda Dreyer. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. 4 February – 7 March.
Dreyer, E. 2007. Little Deaths catalogue for a traveling exhibition, Little Deaths (with Elfrieda Dreyer and Guy du Toit curated by Elfreida Dreyer) Fried Contemporary, Pretoria 13 February – 10 March and Bell Roberts, Lorensford Estate. Koseff, Lara. 2007. Wilma Cruise’s Mother Goose
Suite. The South African Art Times Supplement, August, p.3.
Gers, W. 2012. Opening the Treasure Chest. Art South Africa, Vol. 10. Issue 04. Winter, pp. 54 – 59.
Hobbs, P. 2006. Picasso and Africa: An Educational Supplement. Johannesburg: Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd.: 10.
Law Viljoen, B. 2006. Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing.
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McInnes, J. 2007. Wilma Cruise: A Profile, National Ceramics, 81 Spring. 4 - 9.
McInnes, J. 2006. Body Art. The Big Issue, Issue 111. Vol. 10 30.
Miller, K. 2011. Selective Silence and the Shaping of Memory in Post-Apartheid Visual Culture: The Case of the Monument to the Women of South Africa. South African Historical
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Publication details: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshj20
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Number Four: The Making of Constitution Hill. 2006. Penguin: Johannesburg and London. P. 217 – 218.
Rankin. E. 2006. ‘Material and messages: Sculpture and Mixed media works in the MTN Art Collection’, in Hobbs, P. (ed) Messages and meaning in the MTN Art Collection, Johannesburg: MTN Foundation and David Krut Publishing cc. : 237 - 8Schmahmann, B. 2007.
Cocks, Asses &…(I can’t hear), Catalogue for an exhibition at University of Johannesburg Art Gallery. 7-28 November 2007 and Kizo Art Gallery, Durban June – July 2008.Schmahmann, B. 2005. The Sculptures of Wilma Cruise: Fragments and Feminist
Transgressions, paper presented at The Fragmented Figure Conference, Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC 29 – 30 June.
Schmahmann, B. 2004. Through the Looking Glass: Representations of Self by South African Women Artists, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing.
Schmahmann, B. 2002. Bodies in Agitation: Wilma Cruise’s Recent Work, De Arte 66: 4- 19 September.
Schmahmann, B. 2003. Initiating In-betweeness: Wilma Cruise’s Claybody Sculptures in Earthworks/Claybodies. (Catalogue produced for an exhibition held at the Pretoria Art Museum, 16 March - 26 May, Standard Bank Gallery and Sasol University Museum 2004).
Schoeman, G . 2009 “As for animal being too dumb and stupid to speak for themselves”: Being and nothingness in Wilma Cruise’s Sculptures. In Younge, G. (ed.) 2009 The Urban Animal a catalogue for an exhibition at ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, 2009.
Stevens, I. 2014. Wilma Cruise: The Alice Diaries. Ceramics Art and Perception. No. 96.
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Tully, A-M. 2013. Actions Speak Louder than Words in ‘The Alice Sequence’: A Series of Exhibitions by Wilma Cruise. De Arte 88: 7 – 20.
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Rynie Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Terza Edizione 2001 Catalogue; 176
Younge, G. 2004. Representing global conflict and transnational trauma—the case of the Legacy Project and its visual arts archive, Keynote Address 20th Meeting of the South African Art & Architectural Association. University of Natal, 23-25 September.
Younge, G. 2012. Countdown in The Alice Diaries, a catalogue for an exhibition at Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg, 24 July to 25 August.

PUBLICATIONS BY CRUISE

ARTICLES

2018
“I can’t help but work in installation & multiples” In conversation with Hennie Meyer.
Ceramics Art and Perception, No.110 p32–37.
Christo Giles: A quiet Man. Ceramics Southern Africa, Issue 14 Summer 2018.
The Anatomy of a Wood Firing. Ceramics Southern Africa, Issue 13 Spring 2018.
Ha De Da An exhibition by Louis Oliver and Wilma Cruise. Ceramics Southern Africa, Issue 12 Winter 2018.

2016
Nicolene Swanepoel – A life Force Remembered 1962 – 2016. Ceramics Southern Africa Issue 03/2016 – Autumn. 9 – 12.

2014
Revisiting Alice. Literary Studies Volume 30(4), December. 71 – 90.

2012
Not All Cows are Piebald: Sculpture and Ceramics in South Africa. Interpreting CeramicsConference. Issue 14.

2012
Ceramics Now - Objects of Desire in Southern Guild a catalogue for an exhibition at Everard Read Gallery 3 August – 9 September: 92 – 95.

2011
Nicolene Swanepoel’s Hybrid Herd. Ceramics Art and Perception, No. 86 p50 – 53.

2007
New York .03.07 De Arte 76: 60 – 64.

2004
The Story of woman with Fish. De Arte 69: 80 – 83.
Katherine Glenday: Painting with Light. Ceramics Art and Perception 57: 85.

2000
On a Grand Scale: Monumental Pots from South Africa, Potter Digby Hoets. CeramicReview 194. March/April: 34 - 38.

2000
At last: Review of Altech Ceramics Biennale 2000. National Ceramics Quarterly 54 Summer.
rapRACK: Wilma Cruise National Ceramics Quarterly 53 Spring.

1998
Debbie Bell shows the way. National Ceramics Quarterly 45 Spring.

1997
Twenty-five years on: A personal view. National Ceramics 41 (September).

1995
Artists in residence. Africus Biennale. Brochure for the Standard Bank Gallery,
Johannesburg (Artists in residence, Reshada Crouse and Philippa Hobbs).

1993
The state of the art: contemporary ceramics in South Africa. Introduction to CraftArt by D. Hemp (ed): 10.

1992
The Chinese water torture method and the first biennial ceramics exhibition: a homily.
National Ceramics Quarterly, 22 (December).

1991
Clay spectrum ‘91: a new approach to competition. Ceramix and Craft, October - December.
The camel syndrome. De Arte 45 (April).

1989
Europe after the rain: thoughts provoked by Istanbul. De Arte 39 (April)

1988
Teacups and torsos: objects of confusion. Clay +, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria.

1987
And now for ceramics. Art The Independent Review 1 (Dec).
On judging. Ceramix 1 (July).

1983
Some thoughts on judging. Sgrafitti 32, (March).

REVIEWS
2013
No it is. by William Kentridge at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town. Art South Africa, Vol. 11, Issue 03, Autumn: 60.

2009
The Glazecor Gauteng Regional exhibition, University of Pretoria, National Ceramics, Number 90 Summer 2009 p18.

2008
The 2008 Corobrik National Ceramic Exhibition, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, National Ceramics, Number 85, Spring 2008 p11-13

2006
Masquerade, Clementina van der Walt. Interpreting Ceramics. Issue 7, Spring.

2005
Hylton Nel. Stevenson, M. 2003. Cape Town and London Michael Stevenson
Contemporary and The Fine Art Society in De Arte 71 April.

2000
William Kentridge. Cameron, D. Christov-Bakargiev, C. and Coetzee, J. M. 1999. London: Phaidon. De Arte 62 September.

1996
National Ceramics Quarterly

1993
Catalogue. Made in wood: work from the Western Cape. De Arte 47 (April).

1988
Ceramix 3 (January): 5, 19 and 22.
Ceramix 4 (April).
Ceramix and Craft (July).
Ceramix and Craft (October).

1987
Ceramix 1 (July).
Ceramix 2 (October).

1986
Sgraffiti 45. Corobrik S.Tvl. Regional Exhibition: 6

CATALOGUES

2016
The Alice Manifesto: A catalogue for two exhibitions from the Alice Sequence. (Exhibitions:
The 8th Square, Cavalli Gallery, Cavalli Wine Estate, Somerset West, 6 November – 4 December
and Six impossible things before breakfast, Gallery University of Stellenbosch 9 November – 24
December.) Published by Wilma Cruise.

2014
Menagerie at Tokara: Some Musings. (Catalogue for an exhibition, Menagerie, at Tokara,
nr. Stellenbosch, March to October 2014.)

2011
Sassen, R and Cruise, W. Earth and Ink: Thea Soggot. (Catalogue produced for an
exhibition held at the Everard Read Gallery 10 – 28 February 2011). Published by Everard Read
Gallery (Pty) Ltd: Johannesburg.

2010
& Pooof! Karin Lijnes at AVA Gallery, Cape Town 6th April – 30th April.

2006
Clementina van der Walt…

2003
Kgodumodumo - the art of Josephine Ghesa in Earthworks/Claybodies. (Catalogue
produced for an exhibition held at the Pretoria Art Museum, 16 March - 26 May).

2001
Killing the (M)other - Gail Iris Neke. (Exhibition at the Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town).

2001
Hylton Nel in Hillebrand, M. (2001) Hylton Nel Retrospective Exhibition. Port Elizabeth,
King George VI Art Gallery.

BOOKS

2018
Take a Bow – Art and Dog Communication Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
(http://journals.assaf.org.za/tvl/), Dogs in Southern African literature, (Eds) Dan Wylie and JoanMari Barendse.
2016/17. I'm mad you’re mad we are all mad: The Alice Diaries In Indigenous creatures (Eds) W
Woodward and S McHugh, London, New York, Shanghai: Palgrave Macmillan.

2013
Psychic Unease in Dahn, J. and Jones, J. (Eds.) 2013. Interpreting Ceramics: Selected
Essays, Bath: Wunderkamer Press.

2006
Reading Ceramics, in Messages and meaning in the MTN Art Collection, Phillippa Hobbs,
(ed) Johannesburg: MTN Foundation and David Krut Publishing cc.

2005
Breaking the mould: women ceramists in KwaZulu-Natal in Between Union and Liberation:
Women artists in South Africa 1910 to 1994 Marion Arnold and Brenda Schmahmann, (Eds.),
Eldershot: Ashgate.
Cruise, W. and Hemp, D. 1991. Contemporary Ceramics in South Africa. Cape Town: Struik
Winchester.

2000
Professional art practice: An artist’s perspective. Study Guide for Department of Art History
and Visual Arts, University of South Africa. Pretoria: Unisa 2000 Partial Figures and

PAPERS

2017
Take a Bow – Dog Communication a paper presented at Dogs in Southern African Literatures a conference at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch University, 11-12 April.
Alice in Hermanus at Fynarts Festival, Hermanus, 12 June.

2015
Take a Bow: The animal in post-humanist thought a paper presented at the Second Annual
Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics, Oxford, July.

2005 Partial Figures and Psychic Unease: An Artist’s Perspective. Fragmented Figure
Conference, Cardiff, Wales, June – July.
Sheep, Dogs And The Space Between: Process Explored. International Ceramic Festival,
Aberytstwyth, Wales, July.

1995
Art and craft: an ongoing debate. Eleventh annual conference of the South
African Association of Art Historians 5-7 July University of the Witwatersrand.

1992
Contemporary ceramics in South Africa: an overview. Published in Proceedings for the
South African Ceramic Society Symposium, Ceramics 2000-International.
Content and Meaning in Ceramics. University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1969 BA (Hons) (Wits)
1966 Transvaal Teachers Higher Diploma (JCE)
1989 BA (FA) (Cum Laude) (UNISA)
1997 MA (FA) (Cum Laude) (UNISA)
2017 PhD University of Stellenbosch