Sculpture, painting and printmaking are all part of one discipline on as far as I am concerned, one facilitates the other. The late great Venda artist Nelson Makuba was my mentor and taught me how to carve wood, see images in rough pieces and release them in the same manner as Michelangelo and others released figures from marble. Although wood has been my first choice of material, clay and bronze are also utilised.


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In an outdoor group exhibition in commemoration of communities forcibly removed from their homes in District Six during apartheid, Beezy painted the trunk of an old, dead tree a blazing fluorescent red, a highly effective and affecting symbol for the day (1997).

 
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