Driaan Claassen

Driaan Claassen is a South African sculptor based in Woodstock, Cape Town, who works in bronze, wood, copper and ceramic. His practice explores consciousness, memory and patterns of thought. He was born in Johannesburg in 1991 and trained through an apprenticeship at Bronze Age Foundry after studying 3D animation. He is listed as a NIROX Foundation alumnus and co-presented Emergent Properties at NIROX Sculpture Park in 2023 with Catherine Ash.