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

2001	HYS. SUSP.text/image/sound. Millennium Gallery, Pretoria May 30 - June 27.
2000	rapRACK. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 10 June - 1 July.
1998	Mirroring ourselves (with Regi Bardavid). AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 16 November - 5 December.
1997	Continuous projection. African Window Museum, Pretoria, 30 September – 30 October.
1996	John’s wife. First Gallery, Parkhurst, Johannesburg, 23 April - 11 May.
1993	Nicholas - October 1990. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, April 17 – May 8th.
1991	Jacobs and Liknaitsky Gallery, Cape Town.
1990	Untitled: (everlasting nothingness made visible), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 7 – 27 October.
1987	Portrait of my friends and other animals. Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria, 2 – 14 August.
1985	Sylvester in September. Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria 15 – 27 September.
1985	All those lonely people. Things Gallery, Johannesburg, 27 May – 10 June.
1983	Collection. Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria. 30 January – 11 February.

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

2009	ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, 7th October to 29th October 2009
2005	Art From Two Metropoles. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, 30 July – 19 August.
2003	Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town.
2002	Male Order. Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Touring exhibition.
2002	Art Exhibition - The Spacing, UNISA, Sunnyside Campus, Pretoria, 7 September -15 October.
2002	Manuscript Exhibition 4. Boekehuis, Johannesburg, 7 - 28 September.
2002	TransCultural Exchange Coaster Project - Destination the World. Open Window Art Gallery, Pretoria and Trattoria San Lorenzo Rivonia, March 8 – 17.
2001	Biennale Internazionale Dell’arte Contemporanea, Florence, 7 - 16 December.
2001	Observations (with Guy du Toit and Dianne Victor). The Open Window Art Gallery, Pretoria, 12-29 September.
2001	Launch of Millennium II - Johannesburg. Millennium II Gallery, Johannesburg 23 June
2001	M.E. III Manuscripts. Standard Bank Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, 29 June - 5 July.
2000	Conversations….2000. Wordfest, Standard Bank Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown.
2000	Water Colour Society Of South Africa, (Guest Exhibitor). Norscot Manor, Sandton October.
2000	MANUSCRIPT II. Boekehuis, Melville, Johannesburg (Sept. October); Centre For The Book, Cape Town (December); Oliewenhuis National Museum, Bloemfontein (February - March 20001)
1999	Manuscript Exhibition. Carfax, Johannesburg, 20 November - 4 December; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg and Durban 2000.
1999	The Paper show (curated by Peter Schutz). Goodman Gallery, 10 July - 7 August.
1999	Equus, Pretoria, January.
1998	The art of giving. Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, 28 November.
1998	Aardklop, Potchefstroom.
1998	Women’s Day. Gallery on Tyrone, Johannesburg, 22 August.
1998	Buttons curated by Gordon Froud. The Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, 14 July.
1998	Nearer than bronze: works in paper. Sandton Civic Gallery, Sandton, April - May.
1998	Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, April.
1997	Havana Biennale, Cuba, April-May.
1997	A little big thing. Erotic miniatures at The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg, September- October.
1996	Contemporary South African Art from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection, Cape Town, December
1996	An exhibition of books by people who don’t write: Artist’s books from the Ginsburg Collection, Johannesburg Art Gallery, August.
1996	Past and present. Exhibition of past and present UNISA lecturers, Pretoria.
1996	Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Awards, Kempton Park.
1994-5	Havana Biennale, Cuba
1995	Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Awards, Kempton Park.
1994	Anything boxed. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
1994	Exhibition of new work by the 1993 winners of the FNB Vita Now competition. Civic Theatre Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
1994	Exhibition of maquettes and sketches for art commissions. Civic Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg. (Finalist with Russell Scott for The Theatre Horse. Co-awardees - Dianne Victor and Reshada Crouse).
1994	FNB Art Vita Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery (Quarterly Award) Institute of Contemporary Art, Johannesburg.
1993	The joy is in the making. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
1991	Cape Town Triennial. Travelling exhibition.
1991	Vita Art Now. Johannesburg Art Gallery.
1989	Vita Art Now.- Johannesburg Art Gallery.
1989	Artists’ Mirror Competition. Karen McKerron Gallery. (First Prize)
1988	Cape Town Triennial. Travelling exhibition.
1988	Two-person exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Bryanston.
1988	Clay plus. UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria.
1988	Detainee Parents’ Support Committee Exhibition. Market Gallery, Johannesburg.
1987	Figurative ceramics and decorated textiles. The Annexe, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1987	Recent trends in ceramics. South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1984	Teapot exhibition. Things Gallery, Johannesburg.
1984	Invited Potters. NSA Gallery, Durban; William Humphrey Gallery, Kimberly.
1982	An Exhibition of Ceramic Sculpture and Porcelain. (Two-person exhibition), Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg.
1981	In Doors, Out Doors. (Two-person exhibition), Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.
1981	Ersnt de Jongh Gallery, Pretoria.
1980	Six potters explore raku. Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg.
1980	Carriage House Gallery, Johannesburg.
1980	Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.
1979	Beuster-Skolimowski Gallery, Pretoria.

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.
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. Ceramix 4 (April). Ceramix and Craft ( July). 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

Vice chairman Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 1992.

Secretary of the Interim Steering Committee for ICA 1990-1991.

Critic for the Association of Potters Magazine Ceramix 1987 - 1988.

Chairman of the Association of Potters of Southern Africa, (Southern Transvaal Region) 1985 and 1986.

Adjudicator for National Ceramics exhibitions: 1983 - 1996