press and media
2023
Interview: Artist Bev Butkow, weaver of fabrics and city stories. Joburg In Your Pocket https://www.inyourpocket.com/johannesburg/interview-artist-bev-butkow-weaver-of-fabrics-and_79486f#google_vignette
Tapestry of care takes artist back to her origins, SA Jewish Report
Bev Butkow re-weaves Networks of Care in her latest exhibition. Creative Feel https://creativefeel.co.za/tag/bev-butkow-mixed-media/
Exchange of Interest with the Global South: Beyond market frenzies and trend analyses, FNB Art Joburg
Interview with artist Bev Butkow. Elle Hong Kong. https://www.elle.com.hk/life/blooming-art
Bev Butkow’s solo exhibition explores fierceness, boldness of women. SABC TV 3 Morning Live
2022
Get To Know Mixed-Media Artist Bev Butkow. TFG Media Magazine https://tfgmedia.co.za/life-style/real-life-stories/get-know-mixed-media-artist-bev-butkow/
2019
A glimpse into the 2019 edition of 1-54 London, New African Magazine
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, Museum Geographies
The meteoric rise of African art. MoMAA Magazine https://momaa.org/the-meteoric-rise-of-african-art/
2017
Depicting Society in Nail Varnish. SLOW Magazine
South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Artists – Galvanized for Change. Artscope Magazine
2015
Bev Butkow : SA Taxi Art Award www.jozilife.co.za
Turbine Art Fair 2015 : A New Art Generation, SA Art Times
Artist puts herself in the driver’s seat to help girl school-leavers get on their feet. Saturday Star Newspaper
Newspaper article, Butkow fight scourge of ‘exclusion’ through her work, SA Jewish Report
Interview with Bob Mabena and Khuli Roberts, Kaya FM Radio
Interview, 103HopeFm Radio
Bev Butkow on SA Taxi Award. SABC2 TV News Morning Live
Critical writing
2024
Dr Anthea Buys – ‘Women’s work’, freedom and the labour of care https://womencreativesgathering.webflow.io/texts
Prof Sharlene Khan – Working Against the Grain: Bev Butkow’s Dangerous Liaisons https://womencreativesgathering.webflow.io/texts
Candice Allison – If these weaves could talk https://womencreativesgathering.webflow.io/texts
Dr Laura de Harde – Interwoven Voices: Artist-Women in Conversation https://womencreativesgathering.webflow.io/texts
2023
Mary Corrigall. Tracing the threads of abstraction. Latitudes online https://editorial.latitudes.online/blog/posts/tracing-the-threads-of-abstraction/
Kayra Oğuz. Making and Mothering: Textile Constructions of Bev Butkow
David Mann. Reflections: The woven connections in Bev Butkow’s tactile new Installation. Daily Maverick https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-04-20-reflections-the-woven-connections-in-bev-butkows-tactile-new-installation/
Hanna Resnick. Tapestry of care takes artist back to her origins. SA Jewish Report https://newsletter.sajr.co.za/t/j-l-slridhy-dihlididjr-tl/
Kayra Oguz. Making and Mothering: Textile Constructions of Bev Butkow
2022
Ashraf Jamal. ‘eXe’: Bev Butkow’s Suggestive Gestures Toward Oneness. TSA Contemporary Art Magazine
https://thesoleadventurer.com/exe-bev-butkows-suggestive-gestures-toward-oneness-by-ashraf-jamal/
2021
Fadzai Muchemwa – Bev Butkow’s Woven Paintings and the Testimony of Things
Bev’s Publication
2022
embodied-enTAnglements/enTAngled-embodiments performaTIVe encounters with materials, creative proceSS and the artist-woman’s body. Image & Text. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2022/n36a25
performaTIVe encounters with materials, creative proceSS and the artist-woman’s body. embodied-enTANglements/enTANgled-embodiments
MFA thesis. University of Witwatersrand
2020
embodied-entanglements-entangled-embodiments. […] Ellipses Journal for Creative Research. 2020 Special edition “Embodied Methodologies, Creative Research in the Global South” Link here: embodied-entanglements-entangled-embodiments
2017
un-becoming as a means of unravelling my good-girl-ness. Honours in Art History research project, University of Witwatersrand