Distance

Price: $850
Framed Dimensions: 425 x 490mm
Medium: Acrylic & Pencil on Paper Collage

Description  Distance marks a shift in my practice, where painting becomes a form of visual writing. A way of exploring feeling through material, gesture and space.

Layers fracture, shift and erode, creating a physical language of separation and repair. For me, Distance speaks of the space between places, between worlds, and the life that continues within it.
The physicality of the surface carries the tension between absence and connection, rupture and mending.

Artist Statement & Bio

The Terra collection explores memory, structure, and place through layered, intuitive processes. Working across painting and assemblage, these works are constructed surfaces where fragments are cut, repositioned, and reassembled—reflecting the way place is experienced and remembered.
Through the use of reverse glass, board, and collage, the work develops a quiet physical depth. Layered forms suggest shifting landscapes and interior structures, where memory is held, altered, and continuously unfolding.

Santie Cronje is a South African–born artist based in the South Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her practice explores memory, structure, and place through painting and assemblage, using layered, intuitive processes shaped by migration and lived experience. Her work navigates the space between abstraction and representation, drawing on landscapes, structures, and fragments of place.

Sold Works & Shipping | Available for collection or shipping from 17 August. NZ shipping is calculated at checkout (complimentary on purchases over $200). International shipping is invoiced separately after purchase; please enquire for an estimate.