Claudette Schreuders
Claudette Schreuders creates carved and painted wooden figures that reflect the ambiguities of the search for an ‘African’ identity in the post-apartheid 21st century … Her figures demonstrate a hybrid canon influenced by the blolo and colon figures of West Africa, as well as other stylistic input from medieval church sculpture, Spanish portraiture and Egyptian woodcarving … Schreuders’ figures are essentially modern deities for modern problems, taking with them the blolo figures’ potential to ‘cure’, as well as engaging with issues around foreignness and hostility and the means we use to create a space for ourselves in a perceived ‘alien’ environment.”
- Sue Williamson, 2000
Schreuders was born in 1973 in Pretoria and lives in Cape Town. She graduated with a BA(FA) from the University of Stellenbosch in 1994 and obtained her M.F.A. degree from the University of Cape Town in 1997. She has had a number of group and solo exhibitions in South Africa. Her work has appeared in prominent international art museums around the globe.
