Benon lutaaya biography of albert

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ByRobyn Sassenon

NOT EVERY VISUAL artist would be willing to admit the disheartening sense of dead ends and near misses that comes of muddling through ideas, before they get to submit an ‘offering’ to the world.

It’s an admission of humanity and frailty in a world fraught with quick fixes, sensationalism, barbs and negativity.

Albert Adams excelled at school in Cape Town and his artistic abilities were encouraged and supported by his teachers and family.

Albert Adams excelled at school in Cape Town and his artistic abilities were encouraged and supported by his teachers and family.

In , she took up an 8 month residency at The Project Space and was fortunate enough to also have had the legendary late Benon Lutaaya as her mentor.

Albert Redelinghuys was born in in Hartswater in the Northern Cape.

Leslie Pouessel is an established mid-career artist.

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Ugandan-born artist, Benon Lutaaya, was. That sense of vulnerability was so central to his work ethic and his thinking. On April 19, he succumbed to brain cancer. He was 34.

Lutaaya’s story is about the kind of meteorological rise to prominence that you find in fiction.

By 2015, he was on top of his game and the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements, not only for the visual wisdom and freshness in his works, but also for his entrepreneurial spirit and his ability to simply be the face