BILL DAVIS, sculptor, his life & work

207 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2010

Bill Davis was born in 1933 in India and grew up in South Africa. In the 1960s he taught sculpture and life drawing at the University of Cape Town before beginning to work full-time as a sculptor. His public commissions include the portrait of Nelson Mandela for the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (2008) and the portrait of Nico Malan for the Nico Malan Theatre Centre in Cape Town (1981). He has also completed many commissions for churches.