Michael Stevenson - Claudette Schreuders

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Claudette Schreuders
Claudette Schreuders is well known for her carved and painted wooden figures that draw inspiration from West African colon sculptures, as well as narrative drawings and prints. Her latest solo exhibition of sculptures, The Fall, took place at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in March 2007.

LATEST WORK

Eclipse on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)

EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

The Free Girl on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
Prints from The Long Day (3 May - 2 June 2007)
Public Figure on Afterlife (22 March - 8 April 2007)
Recent works (13 July - 13 August 2005)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1973 in Pretoria, Claudette Schreuders lives and works in Cape Town, where she graduated with a master's degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art. In 2004/5 her first solo museum exhibition toured the United States. She has shown extensively on group exhibitions, including Personal affects: power and poetics in contemporary South African art at the Museum for African Art and the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York (2004), and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (2006); Coexistence: contemporary cultural production in South Africa at the Rose Art Museum, Boston (2003); Group portrait South Africa: nine family histories at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (2002); and Liberated voices: contemporary art from South Africa at the Museum for African Art, New York (1999). Full CV