Archive of Postgraduate Students’ Research Output

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This page details our completed Doctoral and Masters Student projects.

You can access a Thesis or Dissertation by clicking on the title of the study. You can then download the Thesis or Dissertation from the Institutional Repository of the University of Johannesburg’s UJDigispace. Please note that some Theses and Dissertations might not be accessible.

* represents the degree awarded ‘with distinction’

TM represents the award of the Technikon Medal for excellence in postgraduate research

CM represents the award of the University Chancellor’s Medal for meritorious postgraduate research.

 

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Art History

 

Student NameQualifierGraduatedStudy LeaderTitle of Thesis
​1Hobbs, Philippa Anne​Art History​2019​Schmahmann

Ideology, imagery and female agency in tapestry at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, during the Swedish period 1961 – 1976

 

2​​Crawshay-Hall, Jayne Kelly​Art History​2020​Schmahmann

​​Reconceptualising curatorial strategies and roles: Autonomous curating in Johannesburg

 

​3​Do Rego, Roxanne​Art History​2020​Schmahmann

Parodies of Classical Mythologies by Women Artists in Post-Apartheid South Africa

 

​4​Monoa, Thabang​Art History​2021​Schmahmann

Blackness in Afrofuturist art in South Africa

 

​5​Deléne Human​Art History​2022​Schmahmann

Censorship and proscription of the Visual Arts in South Africa from the 1950s until the 1970s

 

​6​Hazel CuthbertsonArt History​2024Schmahmann​Ideas of Africanness in Alexis Preller’s The Discovery of the Sea Route Round Africa mural

Master of Arts in Visual Art (MAVA)

 

​1Angelique Bougaard​Exhibition & Dissertation​2023*​Bronner Paton

Amorphous Labyrinth: memories of ‘Kullid’ stories embedded in childhood games

 

​2Chrisél Attewell​Exhibition & Dissertation​2023*​Von Veh Paton

Territories and traces: connecting land and body in an exploration of postcolonial African artists’ responses to the traumatised landscape

 

​3​Odette Michelle Graskie​Exhibition & Dissertation​2023*​Paton Froud

Portraiture as intervention: drawing the dialogical relationships between Artist, Sitter and Artwork

 

​4​Marisa Mare​Exhibition & Dissertation​2024*​Von Veh Paton

​Ecological grief: speculations on sculptural material responses to specific environmental concerns

 

​5​Katherine Dewar​Exhibition & Dissertation​2024​Sacks

​Becoming a (M)Other: embroidering postpartum experience and trauma

 

Master of Technology: Fine Art (MTech: Fine Art)

 

Student Name​Research ModeGraduatedSupervisors​Title of Dissertation
1Hofmeyr, CarolAcademic Practical2000Berman
Marais
Fragments fetishes and relics
2Kruger, MariekaAcademic Practical2000MaraisA holy war: redemption versus damnation as spiritual metaphors in a selected body of work
3Woolf, SusanApplied Research2002 *Farber
Paton
The conceptual and practical realisation of a corporate art commission
4Marshal, BronwynApplied Research2003 * TMBermanAn Investigation into archival handmade papers for the South African art market
5Coppes, AmandaApplied Research2003 * TMBermanHand papermaking and the use of invasive plant species for sustainable cultural development
6Pahl, IlseAcademic Practical2004Marais
Wafer
Once upon a time … : an investigation of selected, domestic mass-produced objects and their display as source for an exhibition of drawings and sculptures
7Ladiera, JeannotApplied Research (PAR)2005Paton
Berman
Materials and new designs in sustainable community development: A case study of Phumani Papers’ Eshowe Papermaking Project
8Tshabalala, David MotsamaiApplied Research (PAR)2006Berman
Mukuka
The use of paper pulp as a medium for three-dimensional figurative sculpture: a study based on “Hear our voice” for Phumani Paper Alleviation Programme
9Pickster, ClaireAcademic Practical2006FarberTranshuman bodies in contemporary art: plastic possibilities, consumer choices
10Burger, Maria Anna ConsiglioAcademic Practical2006 *Farber
Paton

Transformation within personal and public realms through contemporary artmaking processes

 

11Bogaard, Ruby ChristineAcademic Practical2006 *Marais
von Veh

Ambivalent aspects of the Goddess in selected examples of contemporary South African women’s art

 

12Basel, Karin ElizabethAcademic Practical2006 *Paton
von Veh

Slippages in meaning: the influence of context in scripto/visual communication

 

13Warren, ZhaneAcademic Practical2007Berman
Farber

From paper to performance: embodied ritualised actions towards self-transformation

 

14Swanepoel, NicoleneAcademic Practical2007Marais
Shirley

Representations of cattle as cultural markers towards South African identities

 

15Antonopoulo, ShanninAcademic Practical2008 *Farber

Soap opera sets as signifiers of characterization

 

16Magowan, RobynAcademic Practical2008von Veh

Social masquerade: a theoretical and practical analogy as applied to selected case studies of battered women in Johannesburg

 

17Du Preez, SuzanneAcademic Practical2008Farber
Paton

Hybrid identities in Johannesburg: grafting garment, city and self

 

18Simmons, FionaTheoretical Research2008von Veh

Ukuthwasa style: meaning, significance and change in beadwork and apparel in the White River area of eastern Mpumalanga

 

19Cleaver, RosalindAcademic Practical2009 *von Veh
Marais

Colonial, tourist and alternative views of commodified South African wilderness

 

20Froud, Gordon ClarkAcademic Practical2009Paton

Modularity, repetition and material choices as strategies in the work of selected South African sculptors

 

21Hyson, Inge-LoreAcademic Practical2010Marais
van Eeden

Representation as cultural construct in two Johannesburg gardens and selected artworks

 

22Maphangwa, ShonisaniAcademic Practical2011Farber
Paton

From colonial to post-colonial: shifts in cultural meaning in Dutch lace and Shweshwe fabric

 

23Rennie, ChristyTheoretical Research2011Farber
van Rensburg

Privileging corporeal identity: an embodied approach to artmaking practice

 

24Hartwig, Claudia KatarinaApplied Research (PAR)2012 * CMBerman
Nanackchand

The role of screen-print projects in enhancing awareness of active citizenship: a case study at Artist Proof Studio

 

25Nanackchand, VedantApplied Research (PAR)2012Berman
Allara

Visual graphics for human rights: an art education approach

 

26Hlasane, Mphapho ChristianApplied Research (PAR)2012 *Berman
Nanackchand

Photovoice, mural art and mapping as mobilizing tools for social change: a case study of a Phumani Paper enterprise

 

27Zietsman, DerekAcademic Practical2013 * CMPaton
Farber
van Eeden

Performing masculinities in the iconographies of selected white South African male artists

 

28Jansen van Veuren, Lodewyk MocheAcademic Practical2013 * CMTaylor
Berman

The rhythms of minutes: Henri Lefebvre’s rhythm analyses and an investigation of spatial practices in a selected public site in urban Johannesburg

 

29Bakker, MaaikeAcademic Practical2014 * CMPaton

An exploration of the re-presentation of intangible and ephemeral art

 

30Mchunu, KhayaApplied Research (PAR)2014 *Berman
Allen
Smal

The development of a new sewing co-operative for Tshulu Trust in HaMakuya, Limpopo Province

 

31Lovelace, JulieAcademic Practical2014von Veh Froud

Expressions of liminality in examples of unsanctioned public art in Johannesburg

 

32Pomeroy, JennyAcademic Practical2015 * CMPaton

Locating the auratic: an investigation of visual translations between photographic sources and selected portrait paintings

 

33Richardson, AdenaAcademic Practical2015 *Paton
Berman

Mapping linkages between image and text: an investigation of Willem Boshoff’s Bread and Pebble Roadmap in relation to emergent Afrikaner identities

 

34Schutte, SophiaAcademic Practical2015 *Froud
Farber

Use of material and biomorphic form as a means to convey aspects of gendered and cultural identity constructs with emphasis on selected works by Nicholas Hlobo

 

35​Vos, LorealAcademic Practical2016von Veh
Netshia

Symbols of death and violence in contemporary South African art with reference to seventeenth century Dutch Vanitas art

 

36Lemmer, Jean PaulPractice-Led Research2016 *Berman
Froud

Making mechanical sculpture for performative interaction: a practice led research project

 

37Do Rego, Roxanne​Theoretical Research2016 *Schmahmann

Beauty and beastliness: a comparison of the representations of women in selected works by Walt Disney Pictures. Angela Carter and Diane Victor

 

38Monoa, ThabangAcademic Practical2016Froud
Farber

Hybridity and liminality in selected examples of contemporary South African creative glass practice

 

39Mielke, HeidiAcademic Practical2016Berman
Nanackchand

Artistic responses to violence against women and children in South Africa

 

40Rowley, ChelseaAcademic Practical2017 * CMvon Veh
Paton

An uncertain practice: visual ambiguity as an index of uncertainty in selected painters’ work

 

41Whiteman, CasperAcademic Practical2017 *

Nanackchand

Froud

Engaging the plastic tide: a critical visual response to marine plastic pollution

 

42Linossi, Lisa NicoleAcademic Practical2018 *Schmahmann
Nanackchand

Tracing presence through absence : personal artefacts as indices of memory in the works of Bridget Baker

 

43Rademan, LindaAcademic Practical2018 * CMVon Veh
Nanackchand

Threads of ambivalence: redressing selected aspects of Afrikaner female identities through art making

 

44

Van Schalkwyk, Ilka

Academic Practical2018Paton
Froud

The synaesthetic artist : manifestations of synaesthesia in selected artworks

 

45​Gigaba, MuziwandileAcademic Practical2018 *Berman
Schmahmann

Anthropomorphism and therianthropism in artworks of Nandipha Mntambo and Colbert Mashile

 

46Winter, ColleenAcademic Practical2018 *Froud
Findlay

Art-making as ritual : an exploration and development of a personal iconography

 

47​Van Der Westhuizen, Albertus (Barry)Academic Practical2018Berman
Paton

Artist as Cartographer : a visual and semiotic analysis of map-based artworks

 

48Hager, GaryApplied Research (PAR)2018Berman
Nanackchand

Printmaking as an empowering tool to teach life skills in a Johannesburg high school classroom

 

​49​Hazell, Matthew​Academic Practical​2018​Farber
Netshia

​Relational choreography as a means of negotiating white masculinities within, and through, the work of selected white male South African artists

 

​50Hilary, Keegan​Academic Practical​2019 *​Von Veh
Netshia

Deconstructing representations of profane womanhood in Snow White and Red Shoes and specific works by Paula Rego and Diane Victor

 

​51​Laing, Allen Walter​Academic Practical​2019 * CM

​Paton

Schmahmann

​Fictional worlds and characters in art-making : Fook Island as exemplar for art practice

 

​52​Van Schalkwyk, Jana​Academic Practical​2019 *​Berman
Lipschitz

Distortion to reflection : an auto-ethnographic and artistic exploration

 

​53​Kaczmarek, Roxana Rose​Academic Practical​2019 *​Berman
Nanackchand

​The role of selected emerging Johannesburg printmaking collectives in reframing the traditional model of printmaking through concept and scope of practice

 

​54​Generalis, Yannis John​Academic Practical​2020 * CM​Von Veh
Findlay

Hybrid vigour as a creative strategy in the works of Steven Cohen and Grace Jones

 

​55Thumbiran, Kiveshan​Academic Practical​2020​Schmahmann

Concepts of dystopia in contemporary South African Art

 

​56​Tembane, Vanessa​Academic Practical​2020 *Schmahmann
Nanackchand

Memory, cultural hybridity and migration in the works of Wanja Kimani

 

​57​Torr, Nina Louise Catharina​Academic Practical​2020 *​Paton
von Veh

Making sense : tacit and explicit knowledge in the creative process

 

​58​Nkonyane, Sanelisiwe Hermione​Academic Practical​2020​Raubenheimer
Berman

Interrogating the notion of ownership of the female body : embodiment and self-representation in my artistic practice and selected works by Nandipha Mntambo

 

​59​Beagle, Amalia Kate​Applied Research (PAR)​2020 *

​Berman

Dampier

Creative interventions: An integrated-arts pedagogical approach in the Workplace Preparation classroom of the Extended Access programme at UJ

 

​60​Bollweg, Jean Thierry​Academic Practical
with PAR element
​2020 *​Gray
Opper

The production of an accessible sequential graphic narrative through the use of narrative inquiry ; based on the life of anti-apartheid activist Florrie Daniels

 

​61​Oyebode, Samuel Idowu​Academic Practical​2020​Nettleton
Netshia

Yoruba Adire signs as a method of communication in contemporary art practice in diaspora Africa

 

​62​Ellwood, Matthew​Academic Practical​2020​Froud
Lipschitz

​Recognising Melancholy: Processing Mortality’s Articulation in Landscape Art

 

​63​Kate’Lyn Chetty​Academic Practical​2021​Raubenheimer
Schmahmann

​Contradictory notions of belonging in the representation of Sawoti found in photographic archives from 1950 and 1996

 

​64​Alexa Pienaar​Academic Practical​2021 * CM​Schmahmann
Paton

​A Psychic Landscape: Reimagining personal identities within local landscapes

 

​65​Dahlia Maubane​Academic Practical​2021 *​Berman Kembo

S​eeing and being seen: multiple viewpoints of women street hairstylists in the inner City of Johannesburg

 

​66​Kaylin Kate Richardson​Academic Practical​2021 *​Schmahmann
Findlay

Embroidery as a feminist tool for subversion and healing

 

​67​Corné Venter​Academic Practical​2021Paton

Palimpsest as a visual language for engaging with memories of trauma

 

​68​Athenkosi Kwinana​Academic Practical​2022​Nanackchand
Monoa
Berman

Reimagining Albus: a critical and visual response to Albinism in contemporary South African art

 

​69​Nico Ras​Academic Practical​2022​Berman
Froud

Exploring my fluid Afrikaner identity through fugitive printmaking processes: a practice-led approach

 

Masters Diploma in Technology: Fine Art (MDipTech: Fine Art)​ ​ ​ ​ ​
​1​Vels, Elizabeth​Exhibition & Dissertation​1994​Kerr

Logos as artefact: word become flesh

 

​2​Marais, Marialda​Exhibition & Dissertation​1995​KerrThe artist’s ice-axe: a study of the function of multivalence in a selected body of work

Older research from the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU)
​ ​ ​ ​ ​
​1​Miles, Elizabeth Josephine​PhD: Art History​1983​Engel, E.P.

‘n Ikonologiese ondersoek na die beeldmotiewe in die kuns van Maggie Laubser

 

​2​Von Maltitz, Elizabeth Amalia​MA: Art History​1985​Engel, E.P.

Development of form and meaning in the sculpture of Edoardo Villa

 

​3​Janse van Rensburg, Wilhelm Alfred​MA: Art History​1989​Engel, E.P.

​Die vroulike beginsel in die kuns van Irma Stern