Bevan de Wet: new work
Distressed, 2017.
About:
Bevan de Wet (b.1985) is an independent artist and printmaker based in Johannesburg. He graduated with a BFA with distinction from Rhodes University in 2008. From 2011-2016, de Wet worked at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg as a professional print technician, collaborator, and academic facilitator. During this time, he worked with artists such as Gerhard Marx, William Kentridge, Norman Catherine, Doris Bloom and The Handspring Puppet Company. He simultaneously facilitated regular printmaking workshops at the Sharon Sampson studio.
Deconstructed Nude Study, 2017.
De Wet currently practices as a full time artist and works primarily with paper, exploring mostly etching, relief printing, papermaking, painting and paper folding techniques. He has exhibited extensively, both locally and internationally, including Bevan de Wet, New Forms: A Study of Broken Parallels, Candice Berman Gallery (2017), Origins & Trajectories, Paris (2016); International Printmaking Alliance Exhibition, China (2016-17); Bevan de Wet: Vestige, NIROX Projects (2014). The artist’s work is held in a number of private and public collections including The Wits Art Museum, the South African Embassy in Washington DC, and the Ahmanson Foundation in Los Angeles.
Archetype Colour Study I + II, 2017
In 2012, de Wet was awarded a fellowship from the Ampersand Foundation (New York 2013) and also received the Thami Mnyele Art on Paper Merit Award. In 2014 he was an ABSA L’Atelier Merit Award Winner with the Sylt Foundation, granting him a 2 month residency on the Island of Sylt (Germany 2015). He also received an ImpACT Award for Visual Art from the Arts and Culture Trust. In 2017, de Wet is currently working on 2 solo exhibitions and will travel to Ireland in August 2017 for the Cill Rialaig Artists Residency.
