Juria le Roux

Juria le Roux (b. 1968, Zimbabwe) spent her childhood on a cattle and maize farm near Rusape. She has lived in South Africa since 1976. In 1986, she obtained a B.A. Creative Arts Degree in Jewellery Design and Manufacture from the University of Stellenbosch. The following year, she founded Amulet, a co-operative workshop in Cape Town. Since 1986, Juria has participated in numerous solo and group jewellery and painting exhibitions.

In 1993, she was awarded second prize in the De Beers Diamonds Today competition for her brooch "Adam, Eve and the Tree of Knowledge". Juria spent eight years abroad in Belgium and the USA, returning to South Africa to continue creating special commission jewellery pieces for private clients while exploring her love for painting under Pieter Vermaak's tutorship, Her solo exhibition "Elegie/Reeksmoord" (US Art Gallery, Stellenbosch 2011 and Absa KKNK, Oudtshoorn 2012), featuring 50 portraits of murder victims in South Africa, garnered widespread interest. Her works have been selected for the Sanlam Portrait Award "TOP 40" collection in 2015, 2017, and 2019 for pieces such as "Joey Mashiya – Local Hero" (2015), "Kitchen Tea" (2017), and "Inheritance" (2019). Juria resides on Langverwagt farm near Kuils River.