Posted on August 16, 2017
Residents of Pretoria woke up to a new landmark on Monday morning after seven massive beams, each 33,55 m in length and weighing 71 tons, were installed over the weekend to construct a bridge across Lynnwood Road.
Posted on July 05, 2017
The Javett-UP, which is slowly taking shape on the Hatfield and South campuses, is set to become Africa's foremost art gallery and will exhibit art of the highest quality, with a specific focus on the art of Africa.
Posted on June 29, 2017
Sacha Saddul, a third-year Information Design student, was selected as the University of Pretoria (UP)'s 'poster boy' for his poster titled Killer Fashion, which forms part of the Green Bauhaus Global Communication Project 2017.
Posted on November 03, 2016
To attend an info session please contact [email protected] before 9 November 2016 and provide name, surname and student number.
Posted on October 19, 2016
The Department of Visual Arts is proud to announce Alumni student Matilda Engelblik won a Merit Award at the Sasol New Signatures competition for 2016. Engelblik’s artwork is about memory and loss connected to specific spaces.
Posted on August 22, 2016
Zelda Stroud, a master's student in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, has produced four life-size bronze sculptures of iconic South African women for the Women's Living Heritage Monument in Pretoria.
Posted on August 03, 2016
Prof Jeanne van Eeden from the Department of Visual Arts recently presented a paper at the ‘International Symposium on Food Studies: Transnational Conversations’ held at the University of Pretoria between 22 and 23 July 2016. Her field of expertise is postcards, and her paper was...
Posted on August 01, 2016
The University of Pretoria are hosting an exhibition Soil[ed] in collaboration with Michealis school of Fine art and the UP division in Fine Arts.
Posted on June 07, 2016
According to the popular press it was more likely in 2015 for a person to die while taking a selfie than to be killed by a shark - this is globally.
Posted on April 21, 2016
The Visual Studies division at the Department of Visual Arts, UP, recently celebrated the success of the 2015 top-achievers in BA (Visual Studies).
Posted on April 21, 2016
Acclaimed scholar, Prof Gillian Rose, from the Open University, UK, recently visited the Department of Visual Arts at UP. The highlight of her visit was her Faculty Seminar entitled Seeing the digital city: interface, flow and friction.
Posted on April 13, 2016
The Fine Arts division in the Department of Visual Arts are having their annual staff exhibition.
Posted on April 12, 2016
On Saturday 9 April a workshop was held in the Department of Visual Arts for postgraduate students and staff in the Arts Cluster. More than 50 people attended.
Posted on March 17, 2016
The Faculty of Humanities is embarking on a project to put Digital Humanities on the research agenda by means of a digital platform entitled DIGITatUP.
Posted on February 01, 2016
The Department of Visual Art’s associated lecturer in Fine Arts Guy du Toit, is participating in a group exhibition, Making Africa – A continent of contemporary design at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain.
Posted on November 16, 2015
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria invites you to the BA (Fine Arts) graduate exhibition.
Posted on November 02, 2015
At the 2015 annual South African Communication Association conference, hosted by AFDA, Cape Town, Prof Amanda du Preez presented a paper on the intersection between selfies and Doppelgängers.
Posted on September 24, 2015
Prof Jeanne van Eeden from the Department of Visual Arts recently presented a paper at the 30th annual conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians in Pietermaritzburg. The topic of the conference was power and visual culture and she delivered a paper entitled Postcards of Pretoria:...
Posted on September 22, 2015
The Barclays L’Atelier had their 30th opening and award ceromony on the 15th of July this year where Nina Kruger was awarded as merit prize winner.
Posted on September 16, 2015
Amanda du Preez is Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, where she has been teaching Visual Culture Studies since 2001. Some of the topics she teaches include Postmodernism; Visual Hermeneutics; Gender and Feminism; Critical Visual Culture Studies and importantly Virtual and Digital...
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