"Master printmaker living and working in Cape Town, South Africa"
Fine Arts cum laude graduate from the North West University (NWU),Christiaan Diedericks, completed his Masters degree in Fine Arts (with a distinction for the practical component) at the University of Pretoria in 2000. In 2006 Christiaan received a Kanna Award for Fine Arts at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn and was awarded the coveted Ampersand Foundation Fellowship (with Anni Snyman) for a two months sojourn in New York City. Diedericks successfully completed nearly fifty international artist’s residencies since 1994 and exhibited extensively both locally and internationally (USA, Canada, Japan, China, South-Korea, Finland, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Belgium, England, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Sweden and France). The artist is regularly represented on various international biennials: The Beijing Biennale in China (2015) to name only one.