WILMA CRUISE
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, 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.’
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.