RESUME
Currently, Arts writer and critic for local media in South Africa. I have gradually shifted from 'onlooker' to 'doer', after years of writing about other's art. I now focus on making pictures (in camera and in post production) with the intent of producing fineart prints, printed by masterprinters on acid free, archival paper in limited editions. These are exhibited and sold in galleries and private sales.
Formerly I have worked in the visual art field as lecturer in Art History/Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg and as museum professional in the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
The shift from looking and writing to also doing/making art, occured in 2009 when three incidents helped change my direction. Firstly an invitation by an online gallery, camera obscura, to feature a selection of photos from my portfolio on www.photo.net . Another unexpected recognition of photo-making I had regarded mainly as a wonderful creative hobby, and as supplementary to my travel articles followed. It was an invitation for a solo exhibition at a new art gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. The work sold well to local and international collectors, after also being exhibited in New York City.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
1.I will be attending a special Masterclass workshop with Jenny Altschuler, the director of South African Centre for Photography on the Selfportrait which will be exhibited as part of a group show during the Month of October 5 (MOP5) at a venue still to be finalised from 27 September untill 27 October. It will be better to wait for the specific venue and the finalised programme of the event in order to send you a link.
2 A workshop by prominent artist/educator, Monique Edwards at the Cape Town School of Photography which I will attend during June, will also end in an exhibition at the CTSP. Dates to be finalised.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO exhibition in March-May 2010 at the Waterkant Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa: The Flow of Stone.
GROUP exhibitions:
Affordable Art Fair in New York in May 2010
Hardcore Photography at Cape Town School of Photography 2010
Reality and Beyond at Museum Africa, Johannesburg, 2009
PUBLICATIONS:
Photographs have been published in local media - magazines and newspapers : Earthyear, De Kat, Rapport, Beeld, Die Burger, Die Volksblad, Conde Nast House and Garden, South African Country Life, Flamingo Airline inflight magazine (frontpage photo and lead article.
Represented in the publication: Around the World with TPN (Travelphotographers Network), 2008, edited by Sarah Clarehart.
Photo's purchased and used in promotional and tutorial purposes by New York Institute of Photography, 2010.
Photo's used for promotional purposes by Cape Town School of Photography 2011.
Photo used in tutorial, 'Three Tips on Selling work in Galleries' by Steve Brown on the photographic network, Photo.net 2012
AWARDS: Photography and Artwriting
Artslant Selection of photo, A Fishy Tale; Heads or Tails in Curated Selection Category, January 2012.
Artslant Selection of photo, Museum for Africa, as part of the World Cultures Collection Curation Category Nov 2011
ARTSLANT SHOWCASE WINNER OCT 2011 ARTSLANT ROUND 5.
Four images selected in Top Ten weekly Designer Collections by New York designer, Adrienne Neff on Kipton Art, online gallery 10th May 2011
http://www.kiptonart.com/magazine/index.php?req=article&id=618
Merit Award from the New York Institute of Photography, 2009
Editors choice in Art News for review of fine art photographer, David Goldblatt. 2010
Invited as one of select group of senior artwriters to attend Roundtable-conference with Professor Shelley Rice from New York University, organised by the Roger Ballen Foundation in Johannesburg 2009.
Cape Town School of Photography, in South Africa selected my work for their promotional brochure for 2012.
ARTISTS WITH WHOM MY WORK HAS BEEN SHOWN at Affordable Art Fair, New York 5 May 2010
Cloete Breytenbach
Johan Kuus
David Levine
Gunther Komnick
Ginger Odes
Frits Lemaire
SALES:
1.Waterkant Gallery and Affordable ARt Fair New York
2. New York Institute of Photography bought works after Merit Awards.
3. Private sales of prints on archival paper in limited editions printed by Tony Meintjes and by Orms Professional Photographic Lab in Cape Town, South Africa
4. StateoftheArt-online gallery has been handling sales of my work to a large corporate collection this past year, 2011.
ONLINE GALLERIES
http://www.artslant.com/global/arti...
http://www.kiptonart.com/artists/bettie-coetzeelambrecht
http://stateoftheart.co.za?Art-by-Bettie-Coetzee-Lambrecht/60
www.photo.net/photos/bettieCL
INTENTION
Investigating the following:
Time, as the major force that creates whilst destroying. Erosion and ageing that reshape surfaces. Water that dissolves hard objects, reflects, distorts, reveals what exists below. Shiny surfaces provide the prism through which city spaces assume a different guise. Experiments with digital technology through which that which is only visible to the "inner eye", so to speak, can be suggested. Interaction with the art works of other artists, like the exciting Siemon Allen who recently exhibited in the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town. This kind of "appropriation" of another work of art is by now an established practice within our time frame which is still within what has been termed Postmodernism, which questions the notion of romantic "originality". This is a tricky "field of exploration", but worthwhile because of the general ignorance existing, especially in South Africa. I am exploring this area with the view of entering a Masters in Fine art-study at a local university that has invited me to put forward a proposal.
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