Neels Coetzee Neels Coetzee was born in Bethal. He completed his high school education in Hoogenhout High School. Afterwards he studied at the University of Natal, where he started having interest in sculpture. In 1963 he travelled to England where he studied at the Honsey College of Art. Then he went to Antwerp. His final studies took him back to London’s Royal College of Art. On his return in 1967 to South Africa he gave education to different Technical Colleges. Currently he is a full-time lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Witwatersrand. Coetzee has already undertaken a study tour to America. In 1980 he left in command of the HSRC to New York. Neels Coetzee won the prestigious annual Afrox “Metal Art” National Sculpture Competition in 1977; a year after the prize was won by Johan van Heerden. As guest artist, his sculptures are displayed on Afrox “Metal Art” exhibition annually, since then. 114
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