WILMA CRUISE

WILMA CRUISE, Rita (Baboon Knitting)

Bronze and wood, 30 x 103 x 23 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Papio ursinus II

Bronze, 65 x 65 x 80 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Bobbejaan Klim Die Perd

Bronze, 40 x 38 x 30 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Eric Arthur Blair Suite V

Monotype, 89.5 x 75 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Eric Arthur Blair Suite VI

Monotype, 113.5 x 93 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Eric Arthur Blair Suite IV

Monotype, 72.5 x 92 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Eric Arthur Blair Suite III

Monotype, 78 x 93.5 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Horse And Baboon Rider

Bronze, 22 x 23 x 8 cm

WILMA CRUISE, The Waiting Room

Bronze and found object, 93 x 132 x 59 cm

WILMA CRUISE, The Caucus - Puppy

Bronze, 45 x 85 x 33 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Pup - Zara

Bronze, 75 x 63 x 48 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Little Baboon on Found Object, 2015

Bronze, 63 x 48 x 25 cm

WILMA CRUISE, End Game

Bronze, 70 x 112 x 40 cm

WILMA CRUISE, Charlotte

Bronze

WILMA CRUISE, Eric on found object

Bronze and found object

WILMA CRUISE, Fossey

Bronze, 40 x 23 x 23 cm

Wilma Cruise 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.

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.

WILMA CRUISE, Goodall

Bronze, 44 x 25 x 22 cm

Wilma Cruise 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.

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.

WILMA CRUISE, Kom Sit

Bronze and concrete, 95 x 150 x 85 cm

Wilma Cruise is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work predominantly explores the interface between humans and animals, and existential conditions of muteness; silent, internal battles in the search for meaning. ‘I like to invert the Cartesian question which is not can they talk, but can we listen. The whole drive for me with these works is to equate animal beings with human beings without anthropomorphising them. Anthropomorphising is the ultimate danger when you work with images of animals. I want people to feel what the animal is feeling without making the animal human, or a metaphor, or a cipher for human. It must be in itself, of it itself, that animal.’

WILMA CRUISE, Rita (Baboon Knitting)

Bronze