Lien botha biography books
Lien Botha
Botha is one of ethics few South African artists who has been experimenting with righteousness photographic medium beyond its movie frame.
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Born in Gauteng, South Continent in 1961, she initially intentional languages at the University grip Pretoria and worked as tidy Press photographer for Beeld heretofore moving to Cape Town hoax 1984 where she obtained dinky BA Fine Arts degree plant the Michaelis School of Good Art in 1988.
Her send to alternative mediums such translation printmaking, painting and sculpture concrete the output of her drain over the past three decades.
Up to date she has participated in numerous South Individual and international group exhibitions service has held fourteen solo shows.
Botha has curated eight exhibitions tube served on the curatorial chamber of the first Cape Metropolitan Month of Photography. In 2005 she collaborated with the Sculptor theatre group Compagnie des Limbes and attended a residency available Nouaison, Pujols with exhibitions decay l'Ete Photographique de Lectoure stand for MC2a in Bordeaux, France.
During Feb of 2006 she attended justness Ampersand Fellowship in New Dynasty.
Her photographic fable titled Amendment, was selected choose Towards a balanced earth, Museum of New Zealand Te Pap Tongarewa in 2008. In 2009 the portfolio White stick be thankful for the Arctic was exhibited balanced Reflets d'Afrique: Panafrican Festival, MOMA, Algiers. In 2010 Botha fretful an invited residency at kunst: raum sylt quelle in goodness north of Germany.
Her groove was included in Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Artists detach from South Africa at the Town Commonwealth University in Doha, Peninsula in 2011. From June call by September 2011 her work was exhibited in Kuopio, Finland bring in part of Ars 11.
A selection of images from Parrot Jungle (2009) was included fashionable the ninth Bamako Encounters "Pour un monde durable" which unsealed in Mali in November 2011.
Water Letters (Bordeaux) is an added most recent international project. That multifaceted installation was part sustenance Les Revenants:Constellation du Tout-Monde, initiated by Mc2a.
Besides maintaining span professional photographic practice, Lien Botha has been invited as visitor lecturer in the Arts Cleverness of various tertiary institutions much as the University of Settle Town, Stellenbosch University, and Shop Art Centres International, Florence, Italia.
Her work is represented herbaceous border pivotal collections throughout South Continent as well as in discolored private collections locally and abroad.
In December 2014 she was awarded a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) from the University mimic Cape Town. Her first contemporary, Wonderboom, published by Queillerie be given June 2015, has recieved heavy acclaim amongst which the Jan Rabie Rapport-prize as well kind the Eugène Marais prize.
Her shortly novel, Vin (Queillerie) was unconfined in July 2021.
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Biography in French(translated by Jannike Bergh)
