Painting
Santie Cronje | Contemporary Symbolist
A storyteller, migrant and traveller.
Living between the memory of my life in South Africa and my home in New Zealand since 1999, my practice reflects on place, belonging, and the space in-between. No longer being entirely from there, yet not fully belonging here, I use reduced forms and familiar symbols to trace these quiet narratives across canvas, exploring how we navigate memory, connection, and distance.
Belonging is the first small release of a new body of work I hope to continue exploring for some time. This collection is a personal reflection on migration, memory, and place, marking 27 years as a migrant from South Africa, alongside the realization that I have called 27 different houses home throughout my life.
In this series, the house becomes far more than a painted structure, it is an archetypal symbol and a vessel for meaning.
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