Zelda Stroud

The Bather
Bronze, Cement, Artists Shampoo & Bathwater from the Trianon Palace, Versailles
Edition 1/6
2019
Body Butter
Bath Scum, Bees Wax, Hair, Wood & Perspex
Merit Award Winner Sasol New Signatures 2012


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.
