Retha Erasmus’ work explores the relationship between fragility and resilience through materially driven sculptural processes. Drawing on personal and collective narratives, she creates forms that reflect emotional states shaped by memory and embodied experience.

Retha’s practice is rooted in repetition, with acts of cutting, binding, piercing, and assembling becoming both method and meditation.

Her work often spans across two distinct categories: large-scale sculptural structures that occupy space with quiet authority, and smaller, labour-intensive works that demand close, intimate viewing. This variety allows her to examine the tension between permanence and transience, strength and vulnerability.

The materials she chooses – often delicate or unconventional – carry traces of time and touch, reinforcing the sense that making is both physical and psychological. In this way, her sculptures become sites of contemplation, where process is as significant as form, and meaning emerges through repetition, restraint, and attention to detail.

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