WILLIE BESTER
Born in Montagu, the Cape on 29th February 1956. He is married and has three children.
Willie Bester, while regarded as one of South Africa’s foremost contemporary sculptors, is also recognized as having played an important role in bringing about change, as part of an artist collective, in the struggle during the Apartheid years. But for this artist the struggle is not over. According to Bester, ‘People have built up a resistance to anything that addresses the psyche of mankind or people or themselves. I believe that we must protest against that which is wrong. There is no form of escape; remaining apolitical is a luxury that South Africans simply cannot afford.”
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