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Jessica Webster (born on the East Rand in 1981) studied Philosophy of Painting at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 2006, she survived an act of extreme violence in a shooting that left her paralysed from the waist down. In 2015, Webster was awarded the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust as well as the Mellon Postgraduate Mentoring Programme award for her work in painting and academia.