Wilma Cruise, born 1945, Johannesburg.

Academic Qualifications

1969 BA (Hons) (Wits)
1966 Transvaal Teachers Higher Diploma (JCE)
1984 National Diploma in Ceramic Science (With distinction) (School of Art and Design, TWR)
1989 BA(FA) (Cum Laude) (UNISA)
1997 MA(FA) (Cum Laude) (UNISA)

Solo Exhibitions

As Curator

2004 Earthworks/Claybodies. (Deborah Bell, Wilma Cruise, Guy du Toit, Petros Gumbi). Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch - September 2004
2003 Earthworks/Claybodies. (Deborah Bell, Wilma Cruise, Guy du Toit, Josephine Ghesa). Pretoria Art Museum, 16 March - 26 May, Standard Bank Gallery, 2004
1999 (Re)figuring abstraction. (Regi Bardavid, Jenni Stadler, Pascual Tarazona), Sandton Civic Gallery, October - November.
1995 Space/(Dis)Place. Africus Biennale, Johannesburg, (artist and curator).
1992 Edges. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (artist and curator).
1991 The contemporary vessel. Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston, (artist and curator).

Group Exhibitions

Residencies and workshops

2004 Guest lecturer, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, July – September.
1998 Artist-in-residence, Standard Bank Festival of Arts, Grahamstown.
1997 European contemporary art in the point of intersection between contemporary cultures and nations. Ryn, Poland, July 1997
1997 Havana Biennale, Cuba. April-May.

Public and Corporate Collections

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 University Museum, Stellenbosch

Commissions

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

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 - 1st 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

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).
Cape Town Triennial. 1991. Cape Town: Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation. (Catalogue produced for a travelling 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. 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.
Earthworks/Claybodies. 2003. (Catalogue produced for an exhibition held at the Pretoria Art Museum, 16 March - 26 May).
Nel, K. 1996. Anthropomorphic vessels: Containers of sexuality and a life. National Ceramics Quarterly 36, June: 7 - 9.
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 fulfilment 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

Publications - Articles

2004 The Story of woman with Fish. De Arte 69: 80 – 83.
2004 Katherine Glenday: Painting with Light. Ceramics Art and Perception 57: 85.
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.
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.
1992 The Chinese water torture method and the first biennial ceramics exhibition: a homily. National Ceramics Quarterly, 22 ( December).
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).

Publications - Reviews

2000 William Kentridge. Cameron, D. Christov-Bakargiev, C. and Coetzee, J. M. 1999. London: Phaidon. De Arte 62 September.
1987 Ceramix 1 ( July).
1987 Ceramix 2 (October).
1988 Ceramix 3 (January) : 5, 19 and 22.
1988 Ceramix 4 (April).
1988 Ceramix and Craft ( July).
1988 Ceramix and Craft (October).
1993 Catalogue. Made in wood : work from the Western Cape. De Arte 47 (April).
1996 National Ceramics Quarterly
1986 Sgraffiti 45. Corobrik S.Tvl. Regional Exhibition: 6

Publications - Catalogues

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. Publications - Books
2005 Wilma Cruise. "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.
1991 Cruise, W. and Hemp, D. 1991. Contemporary Ceramics in South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Winchester.
2000 Cruise, W. 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

Publications - Papers

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. 3rd 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.

Public Lectures

Pots in my collection and why I like them. Olive McIntyre Memorial Lecture, William Humphrey Gallery, Kimberly 1997.
Contemporary Ceramics In South Africa - The Story Behind the Book. Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg 1992, Rustenburg, 1992, Johannesburg, 1993.
The State of the Art - Contemporary Ceramics in SA. Winter School Grahamstown Festival 1993

Positions Held

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, appointment 1997.
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.
External Moderator, Vaal Triangle Technikon 1989-1996 and Technikon of the Witwatersrand 1992-1995.
1999 - Chairman Adjudication Panel for Sasol New Signatures Exhibition
1996 - National Awards Judge for the Second Ceramics Biennale
Selector:-

• 1992 - First Biennial Ceramics Exhibition - Southern Transvaal Region
• 1991 - South African Ceramic Awards
• 1991 - Southern Transvaal (Regional Exhibition)
• 1990 - Natal (Regional Exhibition)
• 1990 - OFS
• 1987 - Southern Transvaal
• 1984 - Eastern Cape
• 1983 - Natal
• 1993/4 Curatorial Advisory Committee for the first Johannesburg Biennale - Africus