Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

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Bronwyn Law-Viljoen


Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Editor and co-founder of Fourthwall Books, and Editor of Art South Africa magazine. She received her doctorate in literature at New York University as a Fulbright scholar in 2003. She taught writing and literature at New York University, and completed an extended internship at the Aperture Foundation in New York before returning to South Africa to take up the post of Managing Editor at David Krut Publishing. She has contributed to and edited many books on art, design, and architecture in South Africa, including "Fire Walker" (with Oliver Barstow, Fourthwall Books), "William Kentridge Nose", "Dis-Location / Re-Location", "Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa", "TAXI-015 Paul Stopforth", "Handspring Puppet Company", "TAXI-014 Mmakgabo Mmapula Mmankgato", "Helen Sebidi, Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa", and "William Kentridge Flute" (all David Krut Publishing). She has written essays on South African art and photography for a number of magazines and journals, including "Art South Africa", "Aperture magazine", "Art on Paper", "Theory, Culture and Society", "Literature and Theology", and "Scrutiny", and has contributed chapters to a number of books both locally and internationally. She has just completed the editing of photographer Pierre Crocquet’s book (Fourthwall Books and Hatje Cantz) and co-curated his exhibition "Pinky Promise" on the sexual abuse of children at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.