Lynette Bester

Sculptor Lynette Bester was born in Cape Town in 1978. She studied at the University of Stellenbosch where she completed an M.A. in Fine Arts (Cum Laude) in 2002. Bester, who has had solo exhibitions at The Cold Room Studio and Blank Projects, has been in numerous group exhibitions at such venues as Cape Town's Association of Visual Arts, Art B in Bellville, and the Castle of Good Hope. She also participated in Afetos Roubados, a group exhibition organized by the Goethe Institute in Brazil. A finalist in the 2006 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition at the Pretoria Art Museum, Bester had two sculptures chosen for that event. She is currently Head of the Department of Theory and a lecturer at Ruth Prowse School of Art. "An inspirational blend of mathematics and art", her work is informed by the exploration of volumetric puzzles. This has led to a recent body of work in which Bester "de-constructs" and "re-constructs" such found objects as violins and pianos.  In this process she actually takes the objects apart and reassembles and re-configures them in a new and different way. In 2007 Bester casted a complete tree in hand-made paper (from corporate waste) for the Association of Visual Arts exhibition, Paper and Me. Here the artist's material had a direct relationship between the source of the material, and the product of the artist's process. This work points to another interest of Lynette Bester - the transference of information to an art object.  Lynette Bester lives and works in Cape Town.