Browsing Masters by Department "Michaelis School of Fine Art"

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14 ways to remember Nzira gumi nena dzekuyeuka : exploring and preserving memories

Author: Matindike, Tashinga Date: 2009 My project is one of memorialisation, expressed as a creative process. A core theme throughout my work concerns the notions of absence and presence, as the project is founded on a personal loss and inspired by a desire to sustain the memories ... Read more
A deeper kind of nothing

Author: Abraham, Catherine Date: 2019 'Nothing’1 is frequently associated with insignificance. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 'to reduce to nothing is to consider or treat as worthless or unimportant’. This project aims to reveal that this form of nothing is, ... Read more
Aba té Home: Journey to Robben Island

Author: Fortuin, Sam Seth Date: 2022 Aba té Home – Journey to Robben Island, is a memoir, reflecting how my creative practise and research leads to a recollection from my childhood. I recalled how the elements of fire, whiskey and the soil came together to create a form of ... Read more
Absent Presence: an exploration of memory and family through printmaking

Author: Hambsch, Oliver Date: 2022 Visual and linguistic metaphors help to conceptualise memory by reducing its physiological and philosophical complexities to a degree that allows its processes to be easily understood. Two commonly used metaphors are ‘memory as an imprint' ... Read more
"The advancement of art" : policy and practice at the South African National Gallery, 1940-1962

Author: Lilla, Qanita Date: 2004 This thesis is an enquiry into the policies and practices that shaped the South African National Gallery in the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing on newspaper reports, the South African National Gallery's exhibition catalogues, pamphlets and annual ... Read more
African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments

Author: Inggs, Alice Date: 2014 Six sections, six ways of reading African cities and, by extension, Africa. Anchored in the Cape Town metropolis - an important node in both North?South and South?South global trade networks ? this project investigates the African urban as a ... Read more
Ancestral journeys : a personal reinterpretation of identity through the visual display of paper theatre cabinets and books

Author: Sales, Lyndi Date: 2000 Bibliography: leaves 63-68. Read more
Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881)

Author: Winberg, Marlene Date: 2011 The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of interviews and stories, drawings, paintings and photographs of and xam and !kun individuals, collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd between 1870 and 1881 in Cape Town. My dissertation focuses ... Read more
Apart

Author: Smith, Elizabeth Date: 2021 The exhibition is comprised of a collection of objects that I have gathered over the course of this project. The objects have been tinkered with, cobbled, and transformed in order to generate new outlooks on function, materiality and studio- ... Read more
Apple girl : ingesting and transforming Apple girl from fairy tale into sculpture and performance

Author: Joubert, Jill Date: 2013 The submission for my Master of Fine Art degree, which is devoted to the interpretation and transformation of the Italian fairy tale, Apple Girl, into performed sculpture, consists of this document as well as a photographic story-book which ... Read more
An archaeology of self

Author: Cilliers, Ryna Date: 2010 The title of this dissertation is An Archaeology of Self. The first two chapters explore the historical and theoretical basis that has informed my creative work. It is predominantly concerned with artists who engage with the everyday in their ... Read more
Art, gender ideology and Afrikaner nationalism : a history of the Voortrekker Monument tapestries

Author: Van der Watt, Liese Date: 1996 This dissertation considers the role both verbal and visual culture played in the growth and articulation of Afrikaner nationalism. For this reason it focuses not only on the central topic under discussion, namely the Voortrekker tapestries, ... Read more
At sea : documentation and commentary on the body of practical work submitted for the degree of Masters of Fine Art

Author: Spindler, Katherine Date: 2011 This body of work is comprised of individual pieces that differ in media and scale, forming a series of linked and related encounters. All the works find their origin in an eighteen-month period of living on a hospital ship in West Africa, ... Read more
Avant lounge exotica

Author: Viljoen, Sunette Date: 2012 Avant Lounge Exotica is a project that explores the poetics of interior living spaces, specifically in relation to print media and magazine imagery. Throughout this project I have engaged with ideas around intimacy and interiority, and the ... Read more
Between echoes an experiment in creative collaboration

Author: Purvis, Bryony Date: 2011 I had been living in South Africa for almost a year by the end of 2010, when I instigated a series of creative collaborations with seven individuals, symbolically understood to represent the heterogeneous assortment of relationships that make ... Read more
Between forever and never : the photograph as a bridge between past and present; memory and it's fiction, 1981-2009

Author: Altschuler, Jenny Date: 2009 In Camera Lucida Roland Barthes (1980: 64-66), describes the process of looking through his mother's photographs after her death. He weighs up how much of her he recognises in the images he comes across. He evaluates the versions of her that ... Read more
Bo Mmaruri: Bosadi

Author: Makgekgenene, Legakwana Date: 2021 Post-colonial Botswana is analysed in this body of work as an anecdote. Its landscapes, history, culture, traditions, norms and identity are deconstructed and reconstituted in a heterotopia of my own making. Motivated by the decline in the ... Read more
Body of evidence

Author: Lomofsky, Lynne Date: 2002 This body of work is an experiential study which aims primarily to investigate the effect of the Western medical anatomisation of myself - the cancer patient - on and through my artmaking. The dissertation aims to contextualise my practice - ... Read more
BOGASATSWANA: redbuilding the boat while sailing

Author: Phetogo, Thebeyame Date: 2020 Bogasatswana: Rebuilding the Boat while Sailing, is an attempt to both transmit and disrupt a story-world whose make-up is based on my country of origin, Botswana. It is an exercise in worldbuilding through painting, wherein I establish ... Read more
Borderlands and Political Ecology: A photographic exploration of the environment, territories, boundaries and power near the imaginary line of the equator

Author: Meyer, Garth Date: 2020 For several years I have photographed primary hardwood forests along the imaginary line of the equator to communicate, persuade and warn of the continued ecological destruction that is occurring along this line. My plan was to capture arcadian ... Read more