Posted on December 06, 2023
The art of storytelling is much like constructing & writing a play. In illustrating, drawing, painting, sculpting, compositing, designing, photographing & editing imagery on the page, screen or space, the storyteller acts out, visually, a play of rhetorical signs.
Posted on September 22, 2022
An exhibition by Cazlynne Peffer. Candidate for Masters in Fine Arts. Opening: 23rd September 2022 @ 18:00pm. University of Pretoria, Student Gallery. RSVP by 22nd September 2022. [email protected]
Posted on August 30, 2022
Join us for the exhibition opening & publication launch of Inherited Obsessions.
Posted on July 18, 2022
On 28 April 2023, Deneesher Pather, Assistant Lecturer in Visual Studies and Doctoral Student in Digital Media & Culture, took part in the Four Corners Feminism, Photography & Resistance Symposium. This research event brings together an international group of artists, writers and...
Posted on July 18, 2022
During the week of 10 - 16 April staff and postgraduate students from the division of Fine Art at the University of Pretoria were joined in South Africa by their counterparts from the Academy of Fine Art Vienna for a week-long workshop in art-based methodologies. This workshop formed part of two...
Posted on September 16, 2021
Exhibition period: 25-09-2021 to 02-10-2021 Main viewings Dates: 25-09-2021 & 02-10-2021 Viewing times: 09:30 to 11:00 11:30 to 13:00 13:30 to 15:00...
Posted on June 21, 2021
Join us for a live webinar on Monday, 5 July at 15:00 via Zoom. In this hour long session, we'll unpack design at a glance, the ID degree, our course structure and content, job opportunities, class fees and of course, how you can apply to study ID. We'll also have a short Q&A toward the end,...
Posted on February 26, 2021
Deneesher Pather to participate in discussion forum with the University of Gothenburg
Posted on February 21, 2021
The Information Design programme in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) has won several awards at the 2020 Loeries.
Posted on November 24, 2020
We have some awesome news! Well done to our Information Design students & lecturers who have won 6 Loeries. Of the three gold's given out this year, our students were awarded 2 of them! Congratulations to our winners!
Posted on November 17, 2020
In April 2020, as a result of the national lockdown, the neighbourhoods of South Africa became uncannily similar to the television series, Life After People (2008–2010) that sought to imagine what would become of the world in the absence of humans. While we spent our days indoors, fauna...
Posted on November 11, 2020
Well done to our Information Design students & lecturers who have earned a whopping 22 Loerie award nominations.
Posted on November 11, 2020
Dr. Rory du Plessis publishes new book on lives of 19th-century patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum
Posted on September 01, 2020
Community and connection are concepts that many of us have missed out on during the Covid-19 pandemic. The creative sector of the economy, especially, depends on gathering, communicating and communal engagement. The artistic industry has therefore experienced an exceptional loss, not only...
Posted on June 09, 2020
In 2007, the United Nations were requested to create an International Archives Day and so 9 June 1948 marks the day that the International Council on Archives (ICA) was created under the auspices of UNESCO. The University of Pretoria (UP) Museums are promoting the International Archive Day...
Posted on June 04, 2020
Dear prospective students Thank you for your patience with our correspondence about the application and selection process for BA Information Design and BA Fine Arts. While the UP main campus remains closed, teaching and learning continue from a distance. In light of the uncertainty about...
Posted on May 18, 2020
Embodiment and sensory experience in the time of COVID-19 In an ironic turn of events, just as the Visual Studies Honours Class of 2020 was about to embark on the topic of Embodiment and Visual Culture, all face-to-face lectures at the University of Pretoria were cancelled. Shortly thereafter,...
Posted on May 18, 2020
On 2 and 3 March 2020, Lize Kriel joined colleagues from the UP School of the Arts for a visit to the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Switzerland. The delegation was led by the Head of School, Professor Alexander Johnson, and also included coordinators of the Music programmes and the...
Posted on February 28, 2020
Save the date: Please join us next week for our BA (Fine Arts) Student Exhibition opening on the 5th of March at 6 pm. The show will feature a wide variety of artworks created in the first, second and third-year fine art programs. We are excited to share the amazing hard work of our students!
Posted on January 22, 2020
Viola Greyling is a Fine Art master’s student who was selected together with fifty other young creatives to participate in the 2020 Design Indaba Creative Space programme.
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