Willie bester biografie afrikaans to english

Willie Bester was born in Montagu, Western Cape, 1956. 

Bester’s mixed media works have frequently included passages of painting that have contained strongly naturalistic elements.

Continuity is also evident in Bester’s sustained preoccupation with apartheid’s legacy, and the empathy and dignity with which he represents the dispossessed.

Curriculum Vitae

Training

1986: Community Arts Project, Cape Town.

Exhibitions

1982–2003: Eleven solo Exhibitions in South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown and Stellenbosch).

1988–2001: Five solo exhibitions abroad (Dakar, Senegal; Trento, Rome and Turin, Italy; and Brussels, Belgium).

1989–2004: Participation in approximately thirty group exhibitions in South Africa (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Oudtshoorn).

1991–2005: Participation in approximately forty-six international Exhibitions in thirty-five cities and towns in the UK, Italy, The Netherlan