Claudette Schreuders

Claudette Schreuders (born February 6, 1973) is a South African sculptor and painter operating out of Cape Town, South Africa. She is known mainly for her carved and painted wooden figures, which have been exhibited independently and internationally in galleries and museums. She is the first South African artist to have a sculpture acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Quotes “I think what I’m interested in is telling stories. It’s portraiture, but it’s a vehicle for telling a particular story… the way in which society makes people who they are… As soon as you make a figure, it has an identity.” “dictates to a large degree what the thing is going to look like. It has its own energy.” https://imbaliartbooks.org.za/claudette-schreuders/ " I think what I'm interested in is telling stories. It's portraiture, but it's a vehicle for telling a particular story, or the way in which society makes people who they are, or the group against the individual. https://www.artthrob.co.za/00sept/artbio.html “I enjoy art in which you can see the life where it comes from. Art that is solely about art is not as attractive to me as when there is life outside the work.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Schreuders External link Category:Living people Category:Women artists Category:Sculptors from South Africa Category:Women from South Africa Category:1973 births Category:Women born in the 1970s