Mandela

A lithograph, titled, Mandela created in 2017 by South African artist Claudette Schreuders (b. 1973). Schreuders work is a reflection of the search for an African identity in a post-apartheid South Africa. The narratives in Schreuders’ works explore African and European identities within a post-apartheid South Africa. Her figures, whether it is her sculpture or prints, are loaded with meaning and emotions that reach beyond cultural boundaries. Schreuders’ works furthermore demonstrate hybrid notions of meaning and form, influenced by Blolo and Colon figures of West Africa and the elements of medieval church sculpture and Spanish portraiture. Shreuders is mainly known for her painted wooden figures. Short Biography: Claudette Shreuders was born in 1973 in Pretoria South Africa. Shreuders graduated with a Master’s degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1998. Shreuders currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Shreuders has exhibited extensively within South Africa and internationally. In 1999, she was part of the Liberated Voices exhibition at the Museum for African Art in New York. Shreuders had a solo exhibition “Burnt by the Sun” at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2001.