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Bevan de Wet (b.1985) is an artist and printmaker based in Johannesburg. He graduated with a BFA with distinction from Rhodes University in 2008. From 2011-2016, de Wet worked at Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg as a professional print technician, collaborator, and academic facilitator. In 2016 he founded a print workshop called Eleven Editions, where he collaborates with other artists and publishes various projects. De Wet regularly works with Phumani Archive Mill, a paper-making research unit at the University of Johannesburg, where he produces his handmade paper work. He also teaches various printmaking modules at UJ. De Wet works primarily with paper; with a focus on etching, relief printing, papermaking, collage and installation. In 2025 Eleven Editions exhibited at the Investec Cape Town Art fair, and de Wet had a solo show at David Krut Projects titled Surface Tension and will present a solo exhibit at RMB Latitudes Art Fair.

 

De Wet’s awards include: the Ampersand Foundation Fellowship (New York residency 2013); the Thami Mnyele Art on Paper award 2013; the ABSA L’Atelier Merit Award 2014 (Sylt Foundation residency, Germany); the ImpAct Award for Visual Art from the Arts and Culture Trust 2014; and the Cill Rialaig Artists Residency in Ireland 2017. Collections include: The Wits Art Museum, Nirox Foundation, ABSA, Amazon, the South African Embassy in Washington DC, Art Bank Collection South Africa, MOAD Museum of African Design, Exxaro, and the Ahmanson Foundation in Los Angeles.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT:
de Wet’s practice centres around our increased sense of alienation from the natural environment and the spaces we inhabit, drawing attention to the fragmented nature of our current engagement with the world through digital interfaces. Concerns around space and how we occupy it, has led to a fascination with boundaries, whether biological, geographical and virtual, and how these boundaries are permeable and shifting. De Wet explores the tensions between the organic and the constructed world, from surface and the subdermal networks, to the structural impact on the landscape. De Wet’s practice seeks to embrace change and create systems of order in a world that is complex and chaotic.