Andrew Verster - Revision history

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 His many theatre designs include:
-For  [[Opera Africa]]: ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[Princess Magogo]]'', and ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Rigoletto]]'', as well a for the American production of ''[[Princess Magogo]]'' (2004)
+For  [[Opera Africa]]: ''[[Faust]]'' (1998), ''[[Princess Magogo]]'', and ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Rigoletto]]'', as well a for the American production of ''[[Princess Magogo]]'' (2004)
 For the [[Barnyard Theatre]]: ''[[The Rock Horror Show]]'' (2004), ''[[Grease]]'' (2006).

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 His many theatre designs include:
-For  [[Opera Africa]]: ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu]]'', and ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Rigoletto]]'', as well a for the American production of ''[[Princess Magogo]]'' (2004)
+For  [[Opera Africa]]: ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[Princess Magogo]]'', and ''[[La Traviata]]'' and ''[[Rigoletto]]'', as well a for the American production of ''[[Princess Magogo]]'' (2004)
 For the [[Barnyard Theatre]]: ''[[The Rock Horror Show]]'' (2004), ''[[Grease]]'' (2006).

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 == Awards, etc ==
-Best costume design in the [[Fools Awards]] 2003 and best costume design in the [[DURBAN THEATRE AWARDS]] 2004. FOOLS AWARDS 2005 6 7 best visual artist.
+He received the best costume design in the [[Fools Awards]] 2003 and best costume design in the [[Durban Theatre Awards]] 2004. He also received the [[Fools Awards]] consecutively in 2005, 2006 and 2007 for best visual artist.
 In April 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Design from the [[Durban University of Technology]] ([[DUT]]), for his significant contribution to the Arts through his paintings, writings and designs of set and costumes.

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	http://news.artsmart.co.za/2009/04/andrew-verster-honoured.html
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		+	https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/andrew-clement-verster

	[[Johan Myburg]]. 2020. "Hy skep sy eie intieme wêreld" ''[[Die Burger]]'' (Kuns & Vermaak), 21 February, 2020: p.9.		[[Johan Myburg]]. 2020. "Hy skep sy eie intieme wêreld" ''[[Die Burger]]'' (Kuns & Vermaak), 21 February, 2020: p.9.

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 ===Plays and scripts===
-He wrote a number of plays and shorts sotries for the BBC World Service, his first play - ''[[You May Leave, The Show is Over]]'' - was the winner of the BBC World Service Playwriting. Then followed ''[[Future Past]]'' (a radio play commissioned by the BBC World Service, and featuring the voices of three ex-South Africans:  [[Janet Suzman]], [[Rowena Copper]] and [[Estelle Kohler]], among others); ''[[When in Rome, Don’t drink the water]]'' and a short story, ''[[Aileen, Marjorie, Arthur and Me]]'',  which was adapted and broadcast by the BBC.
+He wrote a number of plays and shorts stories for the BBC World Service, his first play - ''[[You May Leave, The Show is Over]]'' - was the winner of the BBC World Service Playwriting Competition in 1992.  Then followed ''[[Future Past]]'' (a radio play commissioned by the BBC World Service, and featuring the voices of three ex-South Africans:  [[Janet Suzman]], [[Rowena Copper]] and [[Estelle Kohler]], among others); ''[[When in Rome, Don’t drink the water]]'' and a short story, ''[[Aileen, Marjorie, Arthur and Me]]'',  which was adapted and broadcast by the BBC.
 ===Journalism===

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 Born Andrew Clement Verster in Johannesburg on 15 June, 1937.
-He trained as an artist at the Camberwell School of Art and Reading University in the UK. He returned to settle in Durban, where he began as a lecturer at the [[University of Durban Westville]] (then University College, Durban) and the [[Natal Technikon]], remaining there until 1976, when he gave up teaching to become a full-time painter.
+He trained as an artist in the UK, obtaining a National Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London, and an Art Teacher’s Diploma (1960) from Reading University. He returned to settle in Durban, where he began as a lecturer at the [[University of Durban Westville]] (then University College, Durban) and the [[Natal Technikon]], remaining there until 1976, when he gave up teaching to become a full-time painter.
 He went on to have a total of over fifty solo exhibitions, and is represented in many major public and private collections, and has been awarded two retrospective exhibitions organized by the Durban Art Gallery. Numerous public and private commissions, including sculpture and tapestry for the Reserve Bank Durban, art works Durban Hilton, tapestries and a mural, ABSA Headquarters, Johannesburg and a tapestry in the ICC Durban. Three tapestries for [[Rhodes House]] in Oxford. Stainless steel screens for Metro Mall, Johannesburg. Commissions for the Constitutional Court including the entrance doors, carpets for the chamber and foyer, metal gates and chandeliers. He also collaborated with the architect Hans Hallen on Mangosuthu Technikon and the Brenthurst Library.

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 Best costume design in the [[Fools Awards]] 2003 and best costume design in the [[DURBAN THEATRE AWARDS]] 2004. FOOLS AWARDS 2005 6 7 best visual artist.
-In 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the [[Durban University of Technology]] ([[DUT]]).
+In April 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Design from the [[Durban University of Technology]] ([[DUT]]), for his significant contribution to the Arts through his paintings, writings and designs of set and costumes.
 == Sources ==

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 == Biography ==
-Born in Johannesburg on 15 June, 1937.
+Born Andrew Clement Verster in Johannesburg on 15 June, 1937.
-He trained as an artist at the Camberwell School of Art and Reading University. He became a lecturer at the [[University of Durban Westville]] (then University College, Durban) and the [[Natal Technikon]] until 1976, when he gave up teaching to become a full-time painter.
+He trained as an artist at the Camberwell School of Art and Reading University in the UK. He returned to settle in Durban, where he began as a lecturer at the [[University of Durban Westville]] (then University College, Durban) and the [[Natal Technikon]], remaining there until 1976, when he gave up teaching to become a full-time painter.
 He went on to have a total of over fifty solo exhibitions, and is represented in many major public and private collections, and has been awarded two retrospective exhibitions organized by the Durban Art Gallery. Numerous public and private commissions, including sculpture and tapestry for the Reserve Bank Durban, art works Durban Hilton, tapestries and a mural, ABSA Headquarters, Johannesburg and a tapestry in the ICC Durban. Three tapestries for [[Rhodes House]] in Oxford. Stainless steel screens for Metro Mall, Johannesburg. Commissions for the Constitutional Court including the entrance doors, carpets for the chamber and foyer, metal gates and chandeliers. He also collaborated with the architect Hans Hallen on Mangosuthu Technikon and the Brenthurst Library.