FynArts Booklet 2017

Art in the Auditorium - Group Sculpture Exhibition
Strijdom van der Merwe has always been influenced by the earth and the landscape as a basis for
creating his work. In his imagination he sees ley lines as colourful structures of various lengths and thicknesses with the intervals of
man-made areas in between, as islands. First there was the land. Always the land.
Wilma Cruise works mainly with fired clay in her renderings of life-sized human and animal
figures. Themes explored by Wilma in her work include the interface between humans and animals, and
existential conditions of muteness - ‘silent, internal battles in the search for meaning’.
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