Wilma Cruise

WILMA CRUISE

 
b. Annegarn 22.02.1945 JOHANNESBURG

1969 BA (Hons) (Wits)

1966 Transvaal Teachers Higher Diploma (JCE)

1989 BA (FA) (UNISA)

1997 MA (FA) (UNISA)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Selected Editions and Works on Paper. David Krut Projects, Cape Town 10 December to 28 January

2011 Horse: Multiple Views of a Singular Beast. Curated by Ricky Burnett. Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg, 8 September to 30 October.

2011 IS Sculpture at Tokara Delicatessen. Curated by Ilse Schemers. Nr Stellenbosch. 30 October.

2011 Cruise, Kentridge, Ox, Victor, Wilsenach. Curated by Basie Botha. Trent Gallery at Cameo Framers, Pretoria, 21 October – 2 November

2011 Wilma Cruise, Frikkie Eksteen and Robert Hodgins. Curated by Basie Botha. Trent Gallery at Cameo Framers, Pretoria, 14 April – 4 May.

2011 Art on Paper. Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, 18 October

2011 The 2011 Sovereign African Art Prize. Johannesburg Art Fair, Tokara, Artscape.

2011 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.

2010 Painters who Print. The Gallery at Grande Provence, Franschhoek, 31 October – 1 December.

2010 L'Origine du monde - this is not a porn song. Curated by Paul Boulitreau, Aardklop National Art Festival, 27th August- 2nd September.

2010 Bodies in Transition. Curated by Elfrieda Dreyer. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. 4 February – 7 March.

2010 Transitions. Gallery 2, Johannesburg. 8 May.                                                              2009 
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 Artspace, Johannesburg, 5 March - 29 March.                                  2007 - 2008             Spier 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.

2007             Sculpture Garden Grande Provence, Franschoek, September.

2007    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.

2006            Home Sweet Home. Strijdom Gallery, George.

2005            Works on paper: Collaborative Prints from David Krut Print Workshop, Franchise, Johannesburg, 24 November – 15 December.

2005 David Krut Collaborations: 25 Years of Prints and Multiples, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 30 June to 9 July 2005

2005 Art from Two Metropoles. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, 30 July – 19 August.

2003 Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town.

2002 Male Order. Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Touring exhibition.

2002 Art Exhibition - The Spacing, UNISA, Sunnyside Campus, Pretoria, 7 September -15 October.

2002 Manuscript Exhibition 4. Boekehuis, Johannesburg, 7 - 28 September.

2002 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.

2001 Observations (with Guy du Toit and Dianne Victor). The Open Window Art Gallery, Pretoria, 12-29 September.

2001 Launch of Millennium II - Johannesburg. Millennium II Gallery, Johannesburg 23 June

2001 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.

2000 Water Colour Society of South Africa, (Guest Exhibitor). Norscot Manor, Sandton October.

2000 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.

1999 The Paper show (curated by Peter Schutz). Goodman Gallery, 10 July - 7 August.

1999 Equus, Pretoria, January.

1998 The art of giving. Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, 28 November.

1998 Aardklop, Potchefstroom.

1998 Women’s Day. Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, 22 August.

1998 Buttons curated by Gordon Froud. The Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, 14 July.

1998 Nearer than bronze: works in paper. Sandton Civic Gallery, Sandton, April - May.

1998 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, April.

1997 Havana Biennale, Cuba, April-May.

1997 A little big thing. Erotic miniatures at The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg, September- October.

1996 Contemporary South African Art from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection, Cape Town, December

1996 An exhibition of books by people who don’t write: Artist’s books from the Ginsburg Collection, Johannesburg Art Gallery, August.

1996 Past and present. Exhibition of past and present UNISA lecturers, Pretoria.

1996 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.

1994 Exhibition of new work by the 1993 winners of the FNB Vita Now competition. Civic Theatre Art Gallery, Johannesburg.

1994 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).

1994 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.

1991 Vita Art Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery.

1989 Vita Art Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery.

1989 Artists’ Mirror Competition. Karen McKerron Gallery. (First Prize)

1988 Cape Town Triennial. Traveling exhibition.

1988 Two-person exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston.

1988 Clay plus. UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria.

1988 Detainee Parents’ Support Committee Exhibition. Market Gallery, Johannesburg.

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

1987 Recent trends in ceramics. South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

1984 Teapot exhibition. Things Gallery, Johannesburg.

1984 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.

1981 Ersnt de Jongh Gallery, Pretoria.

1980 Six potters explore raku. Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg.

1980 Carriage House Gallery, Johannesburg.

1980 Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.

1979 Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.

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

Site Specific Works

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.

2006            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

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 - 1^st Biennial Ceramics Exhibition.

1992 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.

1989 Standard Bank Merit Award, UNISA.

1986 Transvaal Regional Ceramic Exhibition - Highly Commended

List of References

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. 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.

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.

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.

McInnes, J. 2007. Wilma Cruise: A Profile, National Ceramics, 81 Spring. 4 - 9.

McInnes, J. 2006. Body Art.  The Big Issue, Isuue 111. Vol. 10 30.

Nel, K. 1996. Anthropomorphic vessels: Containers of sexuality and a life. National Ceramics Quarterly 36, June: 7 - 9.

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 - 8

Schmahmann, 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 Septemeber.

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 abd 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. 2003. Earthworks/Claybodies.  National Ceramics Quarterly 64, Winter: 11 - 14.

Valdes, E. The archaeology of repression: Four South African artists. Art Atlantica (issue unknown).

van Tonder, A M. 1994. Stereotypes and spaces in the work of Wilma Cruise. Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree BA Fine Arts at the University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Europejska Sztuka Wspólczesna Na Pograniczu Kultur, Narodów Ryn, 9 - 29 VII 1997 r Przyólpracy: Ministerstwa Kultury I Sztuki Wojewody Suwalskiego Mgok Ryn Galerii Sztuki W 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 20^th Meeting of the South African Art  & Architectural Association. University of Natal, 23-25 September.

Publications by Cruise

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

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 6^th April – 30^th April.

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

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

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

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.

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

2004 The Story of woman with Fish. De Arte 69: 80 – 83.

2004 Katherine Glenday: Painting with Light. Ceramics Art and Perception 57: 85.

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.

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

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

2000 At last: Review of Altech Ceramics Biennale 2000. National Ceramics Quarterly 54 Summer.

2000 rapRACK: Wilma Cruise National Ceramics Quarterly 53 Spring.

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

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.

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

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

Cruise, W. and Hemp, D. 1991. Contemporary Ceramics in South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Winchester.

1991 Clay spectrum ‘91: a new approach to competition. Ceramix and Craft, October -December.

1991 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).

1987 On judging. Ceramix 1 (July).

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

Papers

2008            Satan’s Seat: The Cape Town Slave memeorial in Post Colonial Context at Past The last Post:The Posts in (South) Africa, 24^th Annual Conference of the South African Association of Visual Arts Historians, Stellenbosch,  4 – 6^th September.

2005 Partial Figures and Psychic Unease: An Artist’s Perspective (Fragmented Figure Conference, Cardiff, Wales, June – July).

2005 Sheep, Dogs And The Space Between: Process Explored. International Ceramic Festival, Aberytstwyth, Wales, July.

1997 I love kissing in Cuba: fragments, fractures and figments. Thirteenth annual conference of the South African Association of Art Historians 11 - 13 September University of Stellenbosch.

1995 Space/(Dis)Place and the Africus Biennale. 3^rd South African Sculpture Symposium 3-5 July Technokonrand Campus, Pretoria.

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.

1992 Content and Meaning in Ceramics. University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

Positions Held

Fellow Ceramics Southern Africa

Member of the World Advisory Council for the Ceramic Millennium 99, Amsterdam.

Chairman Arts Advisory Committee for the Sandton Civic Gallery, appointment 1995.

Editorial committee De Arte: Journal of the Department of History of Art and Fine Arts, University of South Africa, 1997 - 2008.

Arts Advisory Committee for the Sandton Town Council, appointment 1992.

Part-time lecturer Fine Art and Art History, University of South Africa 1993 and 1994.

1993/4 Curatorial Advisory Committee for the Johannesburg Biennale - Africus

Vice chairman Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 1992.

Secretary of the Interim Steering Committee for ICA 1990-1991.

Chairman of the Association of Potters of Southern Africa, (Southern Transvaal Region) 1985 and 1986.