Installation art & Sculpture | Strijdom van der Merwe

: Neuchatel, Switzerland

: Preamble to the Constitution of South Africa 1996

: Earth Knots. Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2020.

: Balancing stones

: Earth Knots

: Needle and Thread. Spier Light Art Festival

: Stone Garden

: Migration of birds from Africa to the Wadden Sea, Denmark

: Migration. Three figures sculpted from materials found in forest. Gesves, Belgium

: Gun shots. To live love and die in Lavender Hill, Cape Town

: Ley Lines Sculptuarl wall iece

: Wave. Sculptural installation constructed from reeds. Ephemeral. WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchatel Switzerland

: Wave. sculptural Installation constructed from reeds. WhiteSpaceBalckBox. Neuchatel, Swiitzerland

: Mild steel Sculpture for Hazendal Wine Estate. South Africa.

: Mild steel Sculpture for Hazendal Wine Estate. South Africa.

: Agulhas Icon Sculpture. southern most tip of Africa. Collaboration art work with the Icon design team.

: Echigo Tsumari Triennale, Japan

: Earth symbol. Canola planted among wheat.

: Paper Clips As Bicycle Stands. Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Suflowers

: Pencil tree. Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Pencils. Sculpture for the National Museum of English Literature. Grahamstown. South Africa

: Fragmented. Falling Sky. Rock on site. Stainless steel mirror plates. Reflection.

: Land art Sculpture Installation for the Braak. Stellenbosch. south Africa

: Land art installation for the Nederburg Wine Auction. Paarl. South Africa

: Catching the wind. Sculpture for Humus Park . Polsenego. Italia

: Garden of Poems. Installation of balloons with printed poems as flowers in a garden. Wellington. South Africa

: Contemplation 2. Mild steel sculpture 2.2 x 2.2 meters Anti rust red paint all weather

: Staircase to Heaven

: Ley lines. Wood, Acrylic paint and digital map print on canvas

: Sculptural painting in wood, Acrylic paint and digital print of map on canvas

: Quartet Sculpture for a new Music Centre at a school in Pretoria, South Africa

: Imibala Sculptural tree

: Sculpture installation. Sculpting a line to hold human time

: Sitting man , Mild steel

: Contemplation. Mild steel sculpture. 2.2 x 2.2 meters

: Two roll on lawns X’s in front of a old church for the Hermanus Fine arts Festival

: Sculpture made from mild steel round bars. Camps Bay. South Africa

: Installing several red fabric crosses in the Tokai forest. Cape Town, South Africa.

: Sculpture installation of several mild steel leaves in a pond. Private client, Lourensford, Somerset West, South Africa.

: Sculptural tree for the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

: Land art installation with wood found in the forest to create a giant sleeping figure. Kamiyama, Tokushima, Japan.

: Sculpture installation of two mild steel trees in the foyer of the wine tasting area of the Vergelegen Wine Farm, Somerset West, South Africa.

: Installation in the courtyard of a financial building, using glad wrap to form zigzag lines. Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Installing 300 red paper boats at the Afrikaans Taal Monument, Paarl, South Africa.

: Circle of sticks woven from wine cuttings for a sculpture forest on the farm Kleinood, Stellenbosch

: Installation made from material found on site. 20 meters in diameter x 4 meters high. Noosa, Australia.

: Installation in a forest made from wood for the Arts Festival. 10 meter x 2 meters high. La Fete de Mai, Belgium.

: Sculptural tree made from mild steel. House Schijns, Belgium.

: Sand installation for an exhibition at the Bellville Art Gallery, South Africa. 15 x 2 meters.

: Sculptural tree made from mild steel as part of the University of the Orange Free State Sculpture Project on Campus, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

: Installation of hundreds of paper birds for the Library of the University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

: Installation made from freshly cut grass as part of an exhibition in the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

: Sculpture for the Eden to Addo Corridor Initiative, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.

: Architectural design for the restaurant Casparus, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Kinetic installation as part of an exhibition in the Circa gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Sculptural circle made from mild steel for a private client. Franschhoek, South Africa.

: Installation for the first Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa.

: Wrapping trees in different colored fabric as part of the Cape Town Design Capital of the World. Cape Town, South Africa.

: Installation of hundreds of floating balloons. Done with the community of Stellenbosch as part of an educational process for cleaner rivers and waters. Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Sculptural installation of solar lights with angel wings as part of an exhibition on the farm Clos Malvern, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Installation of balancing stones on the 5th floor of the law firm Sonnenbergs, Cape Town, South Africa.

: Installation of balancing stones in the foyer of the law firm Sonnenbergs, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Installation of 20 000 yellow hands for the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010. Gillooly’s Interchange, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Installation of 48 pieces of 8 meters high white fabric to form a square. A poem by Gert Vlok Nel was printed on 4 of the banners. This artwork was erected for 7 days as part of an exhibition at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Installation of palm tree leaves and red fabric for a private client, Franschhoek, South Africa.

: Set design and video projection for the dance performance ‘Grond’ that was performing at the Jazz Art Dance Theatre Company at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Wrapping of trees in orange fabric as part of a installation for the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010. Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Sculpture installation of over-sized corkscrews for a wine farm in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Sculpture made of mild steel. 5 meters x 2 x 2 meters.

: Sculpture made of mild steel. 5 meters x 2 x 2 meters.

: Sculpture installation of men climbing ladders into eternity as part of the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Sculptural wall piece for the My Citi Bus Station showing the changing shoreline from 1653 until present. Installed at the My Citi Bus Station, Civic Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.

: Installation of ‘pots’ to emphasize the beautiful trees that form part of the entrance to the wine farm. Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Installation of a nest made from wood, with an over-sized egg, on rocky cliffs. This ephemeral sculpture was part of the Sculptures on the Cliffs exhibition. Hermanus, South Africa.

: Red sculptural rectangle at the Nirox Sculpture Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Installing 100 flags 3 meters high by 800 meters long on the beach and dunes at Terschellinge Island in the Netherlands as part of the Oerol Arts Festival.

: A sculpture installation that runs into the wall drawing. Praha, Chezh Republic.

: The Falling Sticks sculpture is made from mild steel and is in front of Rabe’s warehouse, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Installation of red fabric covering renosterbos for the Tulbagh Arts Festival. South Africa.

: Sculpture for Sonnebergs Law Firm ENS, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Wrapping 393 trees in red fabric as a installation for Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Set design for the theatre production “Bly” that was performed at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Installation of bricks that run over and through a chair, photo documentation.

: Installation exhibition in the Nirox Gallery, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Place of Meditation. Sculpture woven from wood found in the forest to create a circle with a small opening. 15 meters in diameter x 2 meters high. Arte Sella Sculpture Park, Borgu Valsugano, Italia.

: Earthwork of 3000 square meters showing the logo of Bartinney wine farm. Artwork are planted with vynbos and 80 000 bulbs to bloom in winter and change colours as the seasons progress.

: Catching the wind. Sculpture made from mild steel for the sculpture park, Europa’s Parkas, LitHuania. 20 meters diameter by 4 meters high, and they turned in the wind.

: Sculptural bench made from wood for House Gouws, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Sculptural bridge of mild steel and wood for a private client in Grabouw, South Africa.

: Installation of stones with engraved stainless steel words as part of the X-Border Art Biennale Rovanimie, Finland.

: Installation of 365 white fabrics blowing in the wind with haiku poems printed on them. This artwork was erected for 7 days as part of an exhibition at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Sculptural wall installation of different metal sheets and wood panels for the Engineering and Forestry library at the University of Stellenbosch.

: Installed a line of flags that gradually changed from red to white with a small viewers house at both ends, which displayed a poem. This artwork was showing the development of the Afrikaans language over 100 years. The work was installed at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Set design and décor for the plays “Trek and Stoot” that was performed at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

: Sculpture made from stone and small brass plates as part of the sculptural installation “Peace Unification and Liberty”. It was the 50th anniversary of the Korean War to remember all the soldiers who died in the war that the United Nations as an Organization took part in. Pusan, South Korea.

: Installation and exhibition of different coloured spices and large format documentation prints of land art works for the opening exhibition in the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

: Mild steel sculpture, 3 meters high.

: Installation of red cotton wool and maps in a gallery. Aardklop Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

: Mild steel and aluminum circles 2.5 meter in diameter. Private Collections, South Africa.

: Sculpture wall installation made from hundreds of wine bottles for the Helderberg Wine Festival, Somerset West, South Africa.

: Sculptural tree made from mild steel for the wine farm in Waterkloof, Somerset West, South Africa.

: Sculpture installation showing small figures in wooden boxes standing and waiting in long corridors. Part of an exhibition in the ArtB Gallery, Bellville, South Africa.

: Sculpture made from material found on site, showing a large seed that has split in two parts, and a tree growing from one of parts. Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Korea.

: Sculptural installation in the landscape with metal wings and solar lights, clos Malvern, Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Sculptural installation of red cubes for the First Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa.

: Sculptural installation for the Exhibition ‘Drawing a Line’ at the B-Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Recreating rock engravings on the beach with sand. Grootbrak, Western Cape, South Africa

: Nelson Mandela Memorial sculpture and garden in front of the town hall of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

: Sculptural installation of natural plants on a mountain for the wine farm Bartinney, Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Pots woven from wine cuttings in a sculpture forest on the farm Kleinood, Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Sculpture installation on the farm Speekhoutfontein in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

: Installation of 10 000 cups for the project Ukusela eKapa by the ceramist Hennie Meyer

: Balancing act. Sculpture made out of mild steel

: Triplet. Mild Steel sculpture. Edition 1/3

: Sculptural installation on 9 Totem Poles for the newly renovated De Oude Werf Hotel, Stellenbosch.

: Sculptures for the My Citi Bus Station, Janssesns Station, Blaauberg Road , Cape Town 2015

: Sculptural bench. Wood and Granite. Camps Bay, Cape Town.

: Reflections. Landscape of Lines

: Sculpture for the Company ClemenGold. Stellenbosch, South Africa

: Sculpture House for City Properties 012 Central, Pretoria

: Sculptural trees for Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West

: Contemplation

: Cellar Man. Mild steel Functional sculpture to hold 36 bottles of wine

: Relaxation, Mild steel sculpture with natural stone

: Contemplation, Mild steel sculpture with natural stone

: Mild steel sculpture with natural stone

: Mild steel sculpture with natural stone

: Exhibition at Lizamore Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Ley lines, rock, wood, steel

: Stone Garden, Sanctuary, Somerset West, South Africa

: Scribble. Wood, Sculptural wall piece

: Anastrophy. To walk through a imaginary wall. To pass from one stage to another.

Installations art & large scale sculpture projects by Strijdom van der Merwe include the use of natural materials for large scale installations in the landscape as part of festivals, art residencies, and commissions. These artworks and Earth Works were created in various countries globally, including Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Finland, and Lithuania, and in various provinces, towns, festivals, and farms in South Africa.

Strijdom’s large-scale steel sculpture commissions complement the plant life and landscape of wine farms in Somerset West, Stellenbosch, and Franschhoek. Stone is often used in projects, like the sculptural installation “Peace Unification and Liberty” created for the 50th anniversary of the Korean War, in Pusan (South Korea), and the art created for the X-Border Art Biennale in Rovaniemi (Finland).