Current Postgraduate Research Students
MASTERS RESEARCH
Nico Ras
Research Title: Exploring fluid Afrikaner identity through fugitive printmaking processes: A practice-led approach
Supervisors: Prof. Kim Berman & Gordon Froud
Dahlia Maubane
Research Title: Seeing and being seen: Multiple viewpoints of women street hairstylists in the inner-city of Johannesburg
Supervisors: Prof. Kim Berman & Boitumelo Kembo
Athenkosi Kwinana
Research Title: Reimagining Albus: A critical and visual response to Albinism in contemporary South African art.
Supervisors: Vedant Nanackchand, Thabang Monoa & Prof. Kim Berman
Jaylin Richardson
Research Title: Embroidery as feminist tool for subversion and healing
Supervisors: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann & Bronwen Findlay
Corné Venter
Research Title: Palimpsest as a visual language for engaging with memories of trauma.
Supervisor: Prof. David Paton
Marisa Mare
Research Title: Ecological grief: speculations on sculptural material responses to specific environmental concerns.
Supervisors: Prof. Karen von Veh & Prof. David Paton
Angelique Bougaard
Proposed Research Title: Amorphous Labyrith: Memories of ‘Kullid’ stories embedded in childhood games
Supervisors: Dr. Irene Bronner & Prof. David Paton
Chrisel Attwell
Proposed Research Title: Territories and Traces: Connecting land and body in an exploration of postcolonial African artist’s responses to the traumatised landscape.
Supervisors: Prof. Karen von Veh & Prof. Kim Berman
Odette Graskie
Proposed Research Title: Portraiture drawing as intervention: Tracing the dialogical relationships between artist, sitter and artwork.
Supervisors: Gordon Froud & Prof. David Paton
Sinead Fletcher
Proposed Research Title: The affective object in therapeutic touch: A tactile artmaking process
Supervisors: Dr. Ruth Sacks & Shonisani Netshia
Celeste Theron
Proposed Research Title: TBA
Supervisors: Dr. Ruth Sacks & Prof. Kim Berman
Shavaun Dippenaar
Proposed Research Title: Deafening Silence: Exploring anxiety in a rural South African landscape
Supervisors: Landi Raubenheimer & Bronwen Findla
Ph.D RESEARCH
Thabang Monoa
Research Title: The exploration of Blackness in Afrofuturist aesthetics
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)
Gordon Froud
Research Title: Harmonia: Sacred geometry, patterns of existence
Supervisor: Prof. Karen von Veh
Mode: Ph.D in Art and Design (P8AD1Q)
Delene Human
Research Title: Censorship and proscription of the visual arts during apartheid South Africa
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)
Amy-Louise Shelver
Research Title: Initiating township art programmes alongside museums/ memorials in South Africa
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)
Brendan Bell
Research Title: Navigating Change: The Tatham Art Gallery permanent collection and exhibition programmes between 1974 and 2018
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)
Hazel Cuthbertson
Research Title: Ideas of Africanness in Alexis Preller’s Discovery of the Sea Route around Africa mural
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)
Firdoze Bulbulia
Research Title: #memoryisaweapon: The personal is political
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)
Sinethemba Twalo
Research Title: Affect, objecthood and blackness in Dineo Seshee Bopape’s works
Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann
Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)