L'air du Temps

Bonze, Copper, Glass, Rubber, Artists Shower Water, Parisian Dust on Fibre (Glass Blown by Greg Miller, Bronze Cast by Wayne Deglon)

2017

The Orange Peel Venus

Moisturizing Treatment, Beeswax, Brass & Cement

2016

Venus of Dry Skin

Moisturizing Treatment, Beeswax, Brass & Cement

2016

The Truth Revealed by Time

Beeswax, One Month Supply of HRT Medication, Cement, Gold Leaf, Perspex & Felt

2013/2018

A Certain Aesthetic

Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint, 1/12th Fragment of Underwear Belonging to Model, Embroidery Thread

2019

"...The Half Civilised..."

Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint, 1/12th of the Model's Original Annotated PhD Proposal Regarding State Censorship in Apartheid South Africa, Embroidery Thread

2019

"...To Black."

Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint, 1/12th Fragment of a Shirt Belonging to the Model's Long Distance Lover, Embroidery Thread

2019

An Unconventional Envoy

Etching, Aquatint, the Remains of a Chicken-Feather Baintbrush used by the Artist, Embroidery Thread

2019

New Direction

Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint, 1/12th Fragment of a T-Shirt Belonging to the Model's Ex-Partner, Embroidery Thread

2019

About the Artist

Zelda Stroud is a sculptor and multimedia artist who also teaches art history at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. She has an MA(FA) from the University of Pretoria.

She has at various times taught sculpture, life-drawing, jewellery-manufacture and art history at different universities, has built architectural models, sculpted waxwork figures for museums and has produced more than a dozen life-size bronze figurative sculptures for public commissions.

Her personal artwork reflects her fascination with text, skill, jewellery, model-making, and the human body and mind.

Zelda Stroud’s work expresses her interest in the social and economic manipulation of individuals (mainly women) by the media, peer pressure and their social environments.

Much of her work is also about duality within art and art-making: the relationship between skill and idea, the traditional and the conceptual, and how to reconcile those.

The artist is interested in how women (particularly older women) see themselves, their different passions, and how society perceives them.

Her work often combines personal items such as hair, nail clippings and clothing to create contemporary talismans/reliquary items that reflect the social and financial implications of the pressure to conform to successful (often middleclass) stereotypes.

Her belief in the ability of art to effect social transformation is manifest in her work.

She has recently rediscovered an interest in printmaking (especially etching), after a break of more than 30 years.