Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1992ZA. Lives and works in Cape Town)

Distrustful of ‘artspeak’, Bestall favours clarity over jargon, lyricism over intellectualism, and feeling over theory. She is drawn to those places in art and life that stand at the limits of the expressible; places where experience eludes simple description and turns instead to metaphor, gesture, and image.

Group exhibitions

2016
In Bed with Series/Friends 2:3, Wordart Gallery, Cape Town
Bad Habitus, Mullers Gallery, Cape Town
Venue - a 24-hour McDonald’s, Cape Town 
2015
Open Studio, Beirut Art Residency, Beirut
Proposal JNR, Cape Town 
2014
Western Cape Sasol Finalists, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town
Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
Cubicle, St Georges Mall, Cape Town
Bazaar III, Atlantic House, Cape Town 

Awards & residencies

2016
Alte Schule Residency, Hohenstein 
2015
Beirut Art Residency, Beirut, Lebanon 
2014
Sasol New Signatures Merit Award 

Press & publications

2017
The Conceptual Art Practice of Lucienne Bestall, Marcia Elizabeth for Bubblegum Club  
2014
A Portrait of a Young Artist Series: A Portrait of a Young Artist Series: Producing Art(ists), a review of the Michaelis Graduate Exhibition written by Michaela Clark  
Winners’ Circle, featured on the Sasol New Signatures website 

 

Education

2019
MA Creative Writing, University of Cape Town 
2014
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Cape Town