| Student Name | Qualifier | Graduated | Study Leader | Title of Thesis |
| 1 | Hobbs, 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 |
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| 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 | Social masquerade: a theoretical and practical analogy as applied to selected case studies of battered women in Johannesburg |
| 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 | Ukuthwasa style: meaning, significance and change in beadwork and apparel in the White River area of eastern Mpumalanga |
| 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 | Modularity, repetition and material choices as strategies in the work of selected South African sculptors |
| 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 | The role of screen-print projects in enhancing awareness of active citizenship: a case study at Artist Proof Studio |
| 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 | Photovoice, mural art and mapping as mobilizing tools for social change: a case study of a Phumani Paper enterprise |
| 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 | The rhythms of minutes: Henri Lefebvre’s rhythm analyses and an investigation of spatial practices in a selected public site in urban Johannesburg |
| 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 | Locating the auratic: an investigation of visual translations between photographic sources and selected portrait paintings |
| 33 | Richardson, Adena | Academic Practical | 2015 * | Paton
Berman | Mapping linkages between image and text: an investigation of Willem Boshoff’s Bread and Pebble Roadmap in relation to emergent Afrikaner identities |
| 34 | Schutte, Sophia | Academic Practical | 2015 * | 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, Loreal | Academic Practical | 2016 | von Veh
Netshia | Symbols of death and violence in contemporary South African art with reference to seventeenth century Dutch Vanitas art |
| 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 | Beauty and beastliness: a comparison of the representations of women in selected works by Walt Disney Pictures. Angela Carter and Diane Victor |
| 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 | Tracing presence through absence : personal artefacts as indices of memory in the works of Bridget Baker |
| 43 | Rademan, Linda | Academic Practical | 2018 * CM | Von Veh
Nanackchand | Threads of ambivalence: redressing selected aspects of Afrikaner female identities through art making |
| 44 | | 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 | Relational choreography as a means of negotiating white masculinities within, and through, the work of selected white male South African artists |
| 50 | Hilary, 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
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| 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 |
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Older research from the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU)
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| 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 |
