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Wilma Cruise is a South African sculptor and visual artist. She works mainly with fired clay in her renderings of life-sized human and animal figures. Her sculpture installations and exhibitions are often accompanied by works on paper. Cruise has also completed several series of print editions, most recently with Warren Editions. A number of her ceramic sculptures have been successfully translated into bronze editions. In the artist's doctoral thesis, 'Thinking with Animals: An exploration of the animal turn through art making and metaphor,' Cruise explores relationships between humans and animals. Cruise has completed several public works, including the National Monument to the Women of South Africa at the Union Buildings, Pretoria (in collaboration with Marcus Holmes); The Memorial to the Slaves (in collaboration with Gavin Younge), Cape Town; and The Right to Life at the Constitutional Court, Johannesburg. Her work is represented in public, corporate, and private collections. She has participated in the Havana Biennale, the Florence Biennale, and the prestigious 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in Seoul, Korea.