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