About Bettie Coetzee

Bettie Coetzee Lambrecht juggled her way through different professions including art criticism, travel, and culture journalism, as an assistant at Johannesburg Art Museum, University lecturer after achieving a Master's degree in Art History. Conceptual Photography entered as a hobby in her late sixties when she moved from Johannesburg to Cape Town.Over the past 14 years, she exchanged the typewriter for a camera and digital image-making. She has received local and international recognition from winning awards from USA- situated Artslant and Lens Culture plus the European PH Museum in Bologna. The latter rewarded her with inclusion of the image, Seeding the Sky, in a publication "In The Sun On The Moon" , as well as an individual virtual space in the PH Museum (see URL above). From Lens Culture a few 'Editors Choice' -awards was earned. Exhibitions include solos and group shows locally and overseas: Affordable Art Fair in New York and locally in Cape Town, South Africa including Eclectica Print Gallery, Riebeek Kasteel Contemporary and Wordart Festival, Stellenbosch