Posted on September 15, 2015
This colloquium Image/text took its cue from WJT Mitchell’s concept imagetext which addresses the complex, intermedial, multimodal exchange between image/text and text/image.
Posted on September 08, 2015
Fine Art staff at the Department of Visual Arts exhibited recent work at Van Wouw House from the 27th of August until the 4th of September.
Posted on September 08, 2015
On 4 September 2015, Rory received the award for ‘Researcher of the year’ in the Arts Cluster of the Faculty of Humanities. At the very prestigious event, he gave a fascinating presentation on his research which focuses on the photographs taken at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South...
Posted on September 07, 2015
On Saturday 29 August, a group of third year students from the Department of Visual Arts visited Freedom Park, a heritage and legacy site situated on Salvokop in Pretoria. Mr Graham Young, a senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture at UP, and a landscape architect involved in the design...
Posted on August 31, 2015
Wednesday 5 August 2015 saw the momentous launching of an interdisciplinary and inter-medial project presented by the Faculty Research Theme, Visual Technologies: Critical Encounters. Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge by Annekie Joubert (Humboldt...
Posted on July 30, 2015
In May 2015 Prof Lize Kriel, current Acting Head of the Visual Arts Department, delivered a keynote address at the Colloquium on ‘Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa’. Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, in collaboration with Oxford...
Posted on July 29, 2015
Jeanne van Eeden, a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, has recently been appointed in two key research-related capacities.
Posted on March 27, 2015
The Visual Studies division at the Department of Visual Arts honoured their top performing students in 2014 at a small ceremony held on 23 March.
Posted on March 22, 2015
Dr Johan Thom a senior Fine Arts lecturer from the University of Pretoria is currently exhibiting at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg. Thom’s work is a mixture of irony, dark humour and light tragedy. His work comments on the self as arbiter of knowledge and source of agency.
Posted on March 05, 2015
Two Fine Arts students from the University of Pretoria are finalists of the 2015 PPC Imaginarium Award. Zelda Stroud, a Masters student, and Kimberly Morrow, a Fourth year student both entered the sculpture category and is therefore awarded to participate in the PPC Imaginarium exhibition.
Posted on March 01, 2015
Celeste Theron, a Fourth year Fine Art student from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Visual Arts, will be exhibiting work at the Design Indaba this year. Theron was selected on the basis of SHE, a water awareness project that focuses on the Apies River in Pretoria.
Posted on February 15, 2015
Prof Amanda du Preez, who teaches Visual Culture Studies in the Department of Visual Arts, delivered a lecture on blended learning during the Flexible Futures: Shaping E-Learning for Higher Education conference, which was held at the Royal Elephant Hotel on 26 January 2015. By sharing the...
Posted on September 29, 2014
The awards evening of the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards took place on the 20th of September at the Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre in the City of Ekurhuleni. University of Pretoria Fine Art students, Leandré le Roux who is currently a Masters student and Izak Buys were amongst the four merit...
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