Bev Butkow South Africa, b. 1967

Bev Butkow is a South African artist who transgresses the boundaries between textile, painting, sculpture, and installation through instinctive and make-shift experimentation. She is a latecomer to art-making, having completed her Master of Fine Arts (cum laude) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2022. In the same year, she exhibited at the Dakar Biennale, Senegal, in the curated Tomorrows/Today section of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, and presented her work at Contextile Bienal TextileTALKS, Portugal. She is based in Johannesburg with her husband and four children.