Karlien de Villiers

Karlien de Villiers
Karlien de Villiers (Cyclone BD, Réunion, 2015)
Born	December 22, 1975 Cape Town, South Africa
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	My Mother was a Beautiful Woman
Awards	UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for Visual Arts
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Karlien de Villiers (Cape Town, December 22, 1975) is a South African artist. She is the author of an autobiographical comic book entitled My Mother was a Beautiful Woman, about her childhood and the time of apartheid, seen from a white family. She has also produced several paintings and sculptures. From 2006 to 2017, she was a lecturer at the Stellenbosch University, where she herself studied drawing and illustration from 1994 to 1997. Previously, she lectured at the University of Pretoria (2003–2006). Since 2019, she has been a lecturer in Design, Illustration and Art Direction at Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography.^[1]