VAS PUTTER is a differently-abled artist currently residing between KwaZulu Natal and Johannesburg. Her training includes various art disciplines with a focus on Printmaking and Art History. She is fascinated with the diaspora of peoples and the displacement of artefacts. Working in paint mediums, printmaking and assemblage with discarded objects, her work explores humanitarian and environmental issues while at the same time unpacking historical and contemporary influences on her life.

Her commissions include the cover of “In the Storms of History – South Africa’s Journey from Slavery to Democracy” (L Grobbelaar 2023), artworks for the National Museum of Bloemfontein (Art Bank SA 2024) and waste-to-art sculptures for the Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies conference (2024).

Putter has taken part in various group exhibitions across the country as well as held a solo show at the Alliance Francaise de Pretoria in 2025. In 2024, she has exhibited at The Inaugural Global Artivism Conference (Tshwane). Her project Averting the Gaze, highlighting the links between the global supply chain and neo-slavery, was supported by The National Arts Council. In March 2025 she was a panellist for the National Arts Council 2025 Human Right’s Day Webinar as well as the guest speaker for the opening of The Printing Girls exhibition at the Association of Arts, Pretoria – speaking about fostering community and inclusivity in the arts. In September 2025, she was invited to speak at the annual South African Visual Art Historians conference about the ‘Averting the Gaze’ artworks focussing on humanitarian and environmental practices.