The Soul in the Grain: The Sculptural Journey of Claudette Schreuders In the quiet, deliberate movements of a sculptor’s hands, one can find the echoes of a nation’s transformation. Claudette Schreuders, born on February 6, 1973, in Pretoria, South Africa, carries within her work the profound weight and the burgeoning hope of a post-apartheid era. As a first-generation South African born to Dutch parents, her formative years were shaped by the seismic shifts of a country dismantling its walls of segregation. This historical backdrop does not merely serve as a setting for her art; it is the v…