LIZE KRÜGER | “Reinventing Myself Through Art”

LIZE KRÜGER | “Reinventing Myself Through Art”

Lize Krüger is a South African artist who received her BA Fine Arts Degree in 1988 from The University of Northwest in South Africa.
Lize has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions through the years. In the early 2000s, before she moved to the UK in 2014, she taught art lessons to students at a quadriplegic facility and an underage abuse victim’s center. In 2018, Krüger returned to her artistic profession after ten years of Sabbatical, following by accepting a commission from the Directors of The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.

“During my artistic development, I’ve developed my own visual language. In addition, I make use of general and personal symbolic images to convey my messages. Trauma is part of our human experience, and through my work, I try to make sense of this collective aspect which few of us will be able to escape.

Life consists of polarities, and I refuse to shy away from them. I am driven by justice, equality, children’s rights, and to destigmatize mental health issues. However, rightly or wrongly, my approach is to bring beauty to all these challenging issues. Sometimes even the most difficult aspects in life have the potential to offer us an incredible gift. First, however, we have to be brave and willing enough to see it.

I only recently explored digital media as an extra tool for expression, which I combine with more traditional methods.
This interdisciplinary medium I use and how one image can evolve into another really excites me. I find it to be an incredible process that often takes me on surprising journeys of discovery.
I prefer to work with accidental elements that occur when I superimpose images. It forces me to adjust and to find new potential in what is in front of me. I love the challenge the process presents to me because it pushes me out of my comfort zone. It is also the perfect analogue to my personal life. I had to reinvent myself numerous times, so this creative method works very well for me. With my work, I want to create a message that finds a perfect balance between the reaction of my viewer and the emotion it invokes with which they can personally relate”.

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