New Direction

2019

(etching, aquatint, drypoint, 1/12th fragment of a t-shirt belonging to the model’s ex-partner, embroidery thread) 

53cm x 48cm x 3cm

Framed

7/12 Edition Variable

Estimated value between R2000 & R3000

Artist statement: 

“Passions/Vulnerabilities” is an ongoing series of etchings aimed at celebrating the bodies and the passions of average women. These works also celebrate the notion of “contagion” – the scent/sweat/energy imbued in the object stitched onto each print.
Each work initially included an image of a particular woman (partially clothed and vulnerable) and an item of clothing from a romantic partner (their passion) – with the item of clothing cut into 12 parts for the 12 etchings in each edition.
It has evolved into a project that celebrates female passion no longer limited to relationships, and the poses of the women are now expressive of their own perceptions of their power and “beauty”. No 1 in the edition of 12 always belongs to the woman depicted.
 

About the artist: 

Zelda Stroud is an artist living and working in Pretoria, South Africa. 

Born in Bloemfontein, she graduated from Wits University with a BA Fine Arts (sculpture) in 1986. After completing her studies, she built architectural scale-models and worked as an apprentice at an art foundry. 

She has spent a number of years teaching sculpture, life drawing, jewellery techniques as well as art history and jewellery history at universities and has, at various times in her career, built architectural models, sculpted waxwork figures for museums and studied jewellery manufacture whilst simultaneously making art. 

She received her MA(FA) (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria in 2017. She has just finished her 15th life-size bronze figure as part of a public commission. Her commission work funds her personal artwork, allowing her a modicum of expressive freedom. Her personal artwork reflects her interests in jewellery, model making, the notion of contagion, as well as the human body, with an emphasis on the politics of social and economic manipulation. 

CONTACT DETAILS:

Auctioneer: SANAVA

Contact No: 073 228 3682

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