Richardt Strydom is a practising artist and creative that used to be Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the North-West University in Potchefstroom. Strydom’s work is included in private and public collections including the UNISA Art Collection and NWU Art Collection. Strydom has received a number of awards including an ABSA l’Atelier Merit Award (1997), a SASOL New Signatures Merit Award (1997), Overall Winner of the SASOL New Signatures Competition in 2008, and Outstanding Visual Artist Award, Stellenbosch Woordfees 2010. For an artist book, Ad Hominem, in collaboration with Jaco Burger. He was co-curator (2004–2005) as well as curator (2006–2008) of the Aardklop National Arts Festival visual arts programme.