Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 84 118 WIM BOTHA SOUTH AFRICAN 1974– Dragon signed, dated ‘12, numbered 3/12 in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin linocut sheet size: 195,5 by 105 cm; image size: 178 by 88 cm R35 000 – 50 000 Wim Botha was born in 1974 in Pretoria where he graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1996. Botha has become one of the most prominent young contemporary artists in South Africa winning the Tollman Award in 2003 and the Standard Bank Young Artist award in 2005. Botha uses many different mediums including books, oil paint, steel, marble and wood. On his creative practice he comments, ‘In my work there is seldom a distinction to be drawn between the prominence of the concept and that of the medium. I work with materials central to mass consumerist applications, that are subsequently transformed in essence and meaning to a point at which material and concept becomes integrally interdependent’. He currently resides in Cape Town and is represented by the Stevenson Gallery