Archive of Postgraduate Students’ Research Output
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 or Art and Design | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student Name | Qualifier | Graduated | Study Leader | Title of Thesis | |
| 1 | Hobbs, Philippa Anne | Art History | 2019 | Schmahmann |
|
| 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 Cuthbertson | Art History | 2024 | Schmahmann | Ideas of Africanness in Alexis Preller’s The Discovery of the Sea Route Round Africa mural
|
| 7 | Karin Preller | Art and Design | 2024 | Farber Lipschitz | The personal photographic archive and anamnesis: working through the past from within the present |
Master of Arts in Visual Art (MAVA)
| |||||
| 1 | Angelique Bougaard | Exhibition & Dissertation | 2023* | Bronner Paton | Amorphous Labyrinth: memories of ‘Kullid’ stories embedded in childhood games
|
| 2 | Chrisél Attewell | Exhibition & Dissertation | 2023* | Von Veh Berman |
|
| 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 Mode | Graduated | Supervisors | Title of Dissertation |
| 1 | Hofmeyr, Carol | Academic Practical | 2000 | Berman Marais | Fragments fetishes and relics |
| 2 | Kruger, Marieka | Academic Practical | 2000 | Marais | A holy war: redemption versus damnation as spiritual metaphors in a selected body of work |
| 3 | Woolf, Susan | Applied Research | 2002 * | Farber Paton | The conceptual and practical realisation of a corporate art commission |
| 4 | Marshal, Bronwyn | Applied Research | 2003 * TM | Berman | An Investigation into archival handmade papers for the South African art market |
| 5 | Coppes, Amanda | Applied Research | 2003 * TM | Berman | Hand papermaking and the use of invasive plant species for sustainable cultural development |
| 6 | Pahl, Ilse | Academic Practical | 2004 | Marais 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 |
| 7 | Ladiera, Jeannot | Applied Research (PAR) | 2005 | Paton Berman | Materials and new designs in sustainable community development: A case study of Phumani Papers’ Eshowe Papermaking Project |
| 8 | Tshabalala, David Motsamai | Applied Research (PAR) | 2006 | Berman 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 |
| 9 | Pickster, Claire | Academic Practical | 2006 | Farber | Transhuman bodies in contemporary art: plastic possibilities, consumer choices |
| 10 | Burger, Maria Anna Consiglio | Academic Practical | 2006 * | Farber Paton | Transformation within personal and public realms through contemporary artmaking processes
|
| 11 | Bogaard, Ruby Christine | Academic Practical | 2006 * | Marais von Veh | Ambivalent aspects of the Goddess in selected examples of contemporary South African women’s art
|
| 12 | Basel, Karin Elizabeth | Academic Practical | 2006 * | Paton von Veh | Slippages in meaning: the influence of context in scripto/visual communication
|
| 13 | Warren, Zhane | Academic Practical | 2007 | Berman Farber | From paper to performance: embodied ritualised actions towards self-transformation
|
| 14 | Swanepoel, Nicolene | Academic Practical | 2007 | Marais Shirley | Representations of cattle as cultural markers towards South African identities
|
| 15 | Antonopoulo, Shannin | Academic Practical | 2008 * | Farber | Soap opera sets as signifiers of characterization
|
| 16 | Magowan, Robyn | Academic Practical | 2008 | von Veh |
|
| 17 | Du Preez, Suzanne | Academic Practical | 2008 | Farber Paton | Hybrid identities in Johannesburg: grafting garment, city and self
|
| 18 | Simmons, Fiona | Theoretical Research | 2008 | von Veh |
|
| 19 | Cleaver, Rosalind | Academic Practical | 2009 * | von Veh Marais | Colonial, tourist and alternative views of commodified South African wilderness
|
| 20 | Froud, Gordon Clark | Academic Practical | 2009 | Paton |
|
| 21 | Hyson, Inge-Lore | Academic Practical | 2010 | Marais van Eeden | Representation as cultural construct in two Johannesburg gardens and selected artworks
|
| 22 | Maphangwa, Shonisani | Academic Practical | 2011 | Farber Paton | From colonial to post-colonial: shifts in cultural meaning in Dutch lace and Shweshwe fabric
|
| 23 | Rennie, Christy | Theoretical Research | 2011 | Farber van Rensburg | Privileging corporeal identity: an embodied approach to artmaking practice
|
| 24 | Hartwig, Claudia Katarina | Applied Research (PAR) | 2012 * CM | Berman Nanackchand |
|
| 25 | Nanackchand, Vedant | Applied Research (PAR) | 2012 | Berman Allara | Visual graphics for human rights: an art education approach
|
| 26 | Hlasane, Mphapho Christian | Applied Research (PAR) | 2012 * | Berman Nanackchand |
|
| 27 | Zietsman, Derek | Academic Practical | 2013 * CM | Paton Farber van Eeden | Performing masculinities in the iconographies of selected white South African male artists
|
| 28 | Jansen van Veuren, Lodewyk Moche | Academic Practical | 2013 * CM | Taylor Berman |
|
| 29 | Bakker, Maaike | Academic Practical | 2014 * CM | Paton | An exploration of the re-presentation of intangible and ephemeral art
|
| 30 | Mchunu, Khaya | Applied Research (PAR) | 2014 * | Berman Allen Smal | The development of a new sewing co-operative for Tshulu Trust in HaMakuya, Limpopo Province
|
| 31 | Lovelace, Julie | Academic Practical | 2014 | von Veh Froud | Expressions of liminality in examples of unsanctioned public art in Johannesburg
|
| 32 | Pomeroy, Jenny | Academic Practical | 2015 * CM | Paton |
|
| 33 | Richardson, Adena | Academic Practical | 2015 * | Paton Berman |
|
| 34 | Schutte, Sophia | Academic Practical | 2015 * | Froud Farber |
|
| 35 | Vos, Loreal | Academic Practical | 2016 | von Veh Netshia |
|
| 36 | Lemmer, Jean Paul | Practice-Led Research | 2016 * | Berman Froud | Making mechanical sculpture for performative interaction: a practice led research project
|
| 37 | Do Rego, Roxanne | Theoretical Research | 2016 * | Schmahmann |
|
| 38 | Monoa, Thabang | Academic Practical | 2016 | Froud Farber | Hybridity and liminality in selected examples of contemporary South African creative glass practice
|
| 39 | Mielke, Heidi | Academic Practical | 2016 | Berman Nanackchand | Artistic responses to violence against women and children in South Africa
|
| 40 | Rowley, Chelsea | Academic Practical | 2017 * CM | von Veh Paton | An uncertain practice: visual ambiguity as an index of uncertainty in selected painters’ work
|
| 41 | Whiteman, Casper | Academic Practical | 2017 * | Nanackchand Froud | Engaging the plastic tide: a critical visual response to marine plastic pollution
|
| 42 | Linossi, Lisa Nicole | Academic Practical | 2018 * | Schmahmann Nanackchand |
|
| 43 | Rademan, Linda | Academic Practical | 2018 * CM | Von Veh Nanackchand |
|
| 44 | Van Schalkwyk, Ilka | Academic Practical | 2018 | Paton Froud | The synaesthetic artist : manifestations of synaesthesia in selected artworks
|
| 45 | Gigaba, Muziwandile | Academic Practical | 2018 * | Berman Schmahmann | Anthropomorphism and therianthropism in artworks of Nandipha Mntambo and Colbert Mashile
|
| 46 | Winter, Colleen | Academic Practical | 2018 * | Froud Findlay | Art-making as ritual : an exploration and development of a personal iconography
|
| 47 | Van Der Westhuizen, Albertus (Barry) | Academic Practical | 2018 | Berman Paton | Artist as Cartographer : a visual and semiotic analysis of map-based artworks
|
| 48 | Hager, Gary | Applied Research (PAR) | 2018 | Berman Nanackchand | Printmaking as an empowering tool to teach life skills in a Johannesburg high school classroom
|
| 49 | Hazell, Matthew | Academic Practical | 2018 | Farber Netshia |
|
| 50 | Hilary, Keegan | Academic Practical | 2019 * | Von Veh Netshia |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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
|
| 55 | Thumbiran, 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 |
|
| 59 | Beagle, Amalia Kate | Applied Research (PAR) | 2020 * | Berman Dampier |
|
| 60 | Bollweg, Jean Thierry | Academic Practical with PAR element | 2020 * | Gray Opper |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 66 | Kaylin Kate Richardson | Academic Practical | 2021 * | Schmahmann Findlay | Embroidery as a feminist tool for subversion and healing
|
| 67 | Corné Venter | Academic Practical | 2021 | Paton | 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 |
|
| | | | | | |
| 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 | Kerr | The 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
|