Bevan de Wet
Bevan de Wet 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 (De Wet, 2019).
His practice centres around our increased sense of alienation from the natural environment and the spaces we inhabit. De Wet draws attention to the fragmented nature of our engagement with the world. His concerns around global and environmental future sustainability has lead him to explore themes which range from surface and the subdermal network to the formalist structures we impose on the landscape. Traversing the tensions between the organic and the constructed world, de Wet’s work is realised through etching, relief printing, papermaking, drawing, painting and installation (Artyli, 2021).
