Wim Botha (1974) is a South-African contemporary artist. He was born in Pretoria and currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of Pretoria. In 1996, Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria with a Bachelors in Visual Art. He has received the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture in 2013, Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2005, and the Tollman Award 2003.
Botha has found inspiration for his work in government texts and religious icons, objects that show belief, faith, observation, transgression and forgiveness. Among the mediums he uses are treated wood, books, acrylic enamel paint, oil paint, steel, Indian ink, bronze, paper, and marble.
The artist explains; “My works are a process of distillations...They attempt to reduce all-encompassing ideas and universal factors down to their core idea.” Exploring along the way “intercepting variables” and “patterns”
He has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture
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| Wim Botha |
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| Smutsdrift, diptych, 1996 |
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| Faultlines, 2002 |
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| Coat of Arms I, 2005 |
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| Afterimage, 2007 |
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| Portrait VI, 2009 |
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| Composite Self-Portrait I, 2010 |
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| Fuse, 2011 |
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| Prism, 2011 |
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| Prism, 2011 |
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| Study for Portrait of a Dispute I, 2011 |
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| Untitled (Esctasy II) 2012 |
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| Untitled (Witness Series V), 2011 |
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| A Thousand Things part 45, 2012 |
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| Untitled (exstasy II), 2012 |
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| A Thousand Things, 2014 installation view |
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| Prism 10 (Dead Laocoön), 2014 |
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| Untitled (Witness series 21), 2014 |
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| Prism 12, 2015 |
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| Prism 20, 2015 |
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| Prism: Dead Pieta, 2015 |
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| Still Life with Water, 2015 |
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| Books-sculp, 2016 |
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| Books-sculp, 2016 |
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| Prism 17, 2016 |
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| Prism 24 [Ecstatic], with glass installation, 2016 |
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| Prism 30 (Maquette for Dead Laocoön), 2017 |
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| Untitled (Nebula 21), 2017 |
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| A Thousand Things part 258 (water), 2019 |
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| Solipsis 10, 2019 |
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| Untitled (Witness series 48), 2019 |
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| Untitled |
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