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SA artist finds Zurich market challenging, suits her fine

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What does a creative do when she finds herself uprooted lock, stock and barrel? Certainly not sit idle at home, twiddling her thumbs.

When her husband took a job at the University of Zurich, South African artist Claire Linder tagged along but clearly with no intention to be her partner’s cheerleader.

She had her own career – already carved, to fine-tune in foreign lands.

A University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg campus) BA graduate, Linder reflects on her option upon graduation: “I studied French and some fine arts subjects, that is, a rather mixed bag, so

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