Current Postgraduate Research Students

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MASTERS RESEARCH

Nico Ras

Nico Ras

Research Title: Exploring fluid Afrikaner identity through fugitive printmaking processes: A practice-led approach

Supervisors: Prof. Kim Berman & Gordon Froud


Dahlia Maubane

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

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

Jaylin Richardson

Research Title: Embroidery as feminist tool for subversion and healing

Supervisors: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann & Bronwen Findlay


Corné Venter

Corné Venter

Research Title: Palimpsest as a visual language for engaging with memories of trauma.

Supervisor: Prof. David Paton


Marisa Mare

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

Angelique Bougaard

Proposed Research Title: Amorphous Labyrith: Memories of ‘Kullid’ stories embedded in childhood games

Supervisors: Dr. Irene Bronner & Prof. David Paton


Chrisel Attwell

​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

​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

Sinead Fletcher

Proposed Research Title: The affective object in therapeutic touch: A tactile artmaking process

Supervisors: Dr. Ruth Sacks & Shonisani Netshia


Celeste Theron

Celeste Theron

Proposed Research Title: TBA

Supervisors: Dr. Ruth Sacks & Prof. Kim Berman


​shavaun Dippenaar

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

Thabang Monoa

Research Title: The exploration of Blackness in Afrofuturist aesthetics

Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann

Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)


Gordon Froud

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

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

​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

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

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

Firdoze Bulbulia

Research Title: #memoryisaweapon: The personal is political

Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann

Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)


Sinethemba Twalo

​Sinethemba Twalo

Research Title: Affect, objecthood and blackness in Dineo Seshee Bopape’s works

Supervisor: Prof. Brenda Schmahmann

Mode: PhD in Art History (PHD181)