Wilma Cruise

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.

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

Text: http://wilmacruise.com/bio/

AVAILABLE WORKS

The All Knowing Pig- Softground, Etching, 450mm x 437mm

The 13th Floor XVI, Mixed Media, 444mm x 445mm

OFS III, Monoprint, 660mm x 625mm

Eric Arthur Blair Suite I, Monotype 950mm x 770mm

Eric Arthur Blair Suite II, Monotype, 950mm x 770mm

Bobbejaan Klim Die Perd, Bronze, 460mm x 390mm x 130mm

Boat Person (red)

The 13th Hour II, Mixed Media, 444mm x 445mm

Baboon Swinging, Drypoint, Etching, 370mm x 530mm

Archived WORKS

Birds on Box

Die Perd

Red Figure in Boat, Wood-fired & Glazed Ceramic