Painting
Santie Cronje | Contemporary Symbolist Painter
A storyteller, a migrant and a traveller.
I've called New Zealand home since 1999, but South Africa is where my story began. The experience of living between two countries, and the journey between them, sits at the heart of my creative practice.
Memory, place, belonging and the things we carry with us find their way onto my canvases, often through reduced forms, familiar symbols and fragments of lived experience.
Having spent eight years directing Deciduus Gallery, I'm enjoying being fully back in my studio. Painting is my way of tracing my place in the world, and I have many stories to share.
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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