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Willem Boshoff is one of South Africa's foremost contemporary sculptors. Exhibiting internationally, he is renowned for his conceptual installations. Boshoff originally trained as a school teacher before undertaking art training and in 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg. His installations are frequently based on the exploration of language and are created in materials ranging from stone to paper to sand.
Boshoff possesses the instincts of the collector, the playfulness of the prankster, and the attention to detail of the scientist. His knowledge of wood and plant species is an extension of a long-held fascination with words and language, with encryption, secret writing, taxonomies, and codes. These interests and sources of inspiration have resulted in works of profound importance such as the Dictionary of Perplexing English, and his monumental pieces in stone.