Department of Art and Music: Recent submissions

  • Bitterbessie Dagbreek 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Aardklop; Gallery@Glen Carlou, 2025)
    The Bitterbessie Dagbreek series of six works plus an artist book were commissioned by academic curator Professor Gwenneth Miller for the national Aardklop festival of 2025. I was then invited to exhibit the works at the ...
  • Composite 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (White River Gallery, Mpumalanga; Attic Atelier, George, Western Cape; Galerie Latuvu, Bages, France; The Viewing Room Gallery in Pretoria, 2025)
    The Composite project (2025) comprises fourteen new artworks presented across three group exhibitions and a solo exhibition held from 20 September to 20 October 2025 at The Viewing Room Gallery in Pretoria. The group ...
  • The articulation of trauma in pet loss through ceramic art: an ontological investigation 
    Visser, Beatrice (2024-09)
    This study investigates the ways in which ceramic art expresses the trauma of pet loss. An ontological investigation, it focuses on the strong attachment bonds I have shared with my pets. The project aims to advance fresh ...
  • How to structure an essay 
    Diko, Andisiwe (2024)
    The Open Educational Resource (OER) was created to support undergraduate students in Art History who struggle with academic writing. It is designed to teach them the basics of academic writing and what is expected when ...
  • Costumes and dress codes as tools for cultural construction and social commentary in performative art 
    Ngcobo, Nkosikhona Bongamahlubi (2024-10-30)
    This study highlights the importance of costumes and dress codes first as means of cultural construction, and secondly as tools for social commentary art. Its main aim was to discern whether culturally conceived perceptions ...
  • Empowering up-and-coming Ghanaian artists through mentorship in the creative industries for economic development and cultural heritage preservation 
    Holman, Kweku Mensah (2024-10-31)
    This study sought to develop a model of empowering up-and-coming artists by enhancing their participation in Ghanaian creative industries, assisted through the mentorship programme led by cultural pioneering visual arts ...
  • A visual interpretation and expression of the cultural meaning of Basotho blankets 
    Mosekare, Calvin Teboho (2023-11)
    The study was practice-led, offering an interpretation of the cultural significance of the Basotho blanket through the medium of ceramics. It drew inspiration from Thabo Makhetha’s innovative incorporation of Basotho blankets ...
  • Commiseration 
    Mosako, Daniel Rankadi (Unisa Art Gallery, 2024-09-14)
    Art has always served as a mirror reflecting the depths of the human experience, and that reflection frequently highlights the complex and multidimensional aspects of a global situation on mental health. My path as an ...
  • Music Pedagogy: Discussion forum questions 
    Behr, Annemie (2024)
    This OER is based on a workshop designed for educators teaching music as part of the CAPS Life Skills/Creative Arts syllabus. The questions can be used as a guide for open class discussions or as prompts for online discussion ...
  • Representation of indigenous cultures for tourism consumption in South Africa through cultural villages : focus on Lesedi Cultural Village 
    Letseka, Tsephe (2023)
  • Blurry edges and expanded boundaries in intermedial art practice : the posthuman, anamorphic impact of digital technology 
    Hindson, Elizabeth Isabella (2024-01)
    Digital technology and its associated cultures have profoundly impacted art practice, leading to the emergence of posthuman identity and artistic forms that blur the boundaries of art ontologies. Examining key posthuman ...
  • Women’s Day Celebration: Celebrating Black South African Female Jazz Composers 
    Mkizwana, Viwe Siyabonga Mthembu, Mzamo Mcwabe, Ntsikelelo Sepuru, Phuti Motsepe, Nthabiseng Mcwabe, Ntsikelelo (2023)
    Women’s Day (9 August) a reminder of the tenacity, resilience, and power of South African women. This performance is part of the University of Pretoria’s weekly Lunch Hour Concerts, where leading musicians (local and ...
  • uMuthimkhulu We Mpilo 
    Mosako, Daniel Rankadi Mosako, Daniel Rankadi Mosako, Daniel Rankadi (UNISA FLORIDA CAMPUS, 2023-11-30)
    The Phylogenetic Tree of Life sculpture titled uMthimkhulu We Mpilo is a dynamic public art that explores the evolution of life and the interconnectedness of life organisms. This artwork is a visual representation of the ...
  • Malende dance Symphony 
    Netshivhambe, Evans Ntshengedzeni (National Theatre of Ghana-Performance Premiere, 2023-10-27)
    The Malende dance composition, in particular, serves as a symphonic realisation of this cultural borrowing. Delving into the rich heritage of Malende rhythmic strata, the composer selects a specific pattern that stands as ...
  • Functionality and social modernism in the work of untrained South African artists 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2012-11-02)
    Many artists from rural areas in the global south are driven by the functionality of the art object and of naturalism in communicating the urgency of redressing sociopolitical conditions. This article does not advocate a ...
  • Of clocks ticking: heterotopic space, time and motion in William Kentridge’s The refusal of time (2012) 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2016-09-23)
    In William Kentridge’s The refusal of time (2012), comment on time as both a scientific and a human entity is produced. A complex mix of the visual and nominal vocabularies of early ‘rudimentary’ technological invention, ...
  • Rubber ducks and Ships of Fools 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2017-05-12)
    The trope of boat figures centrally in Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's travelling public artwork, Rubber duck (2007–2016); in the media images of migrant refugees arriving at European destinations by boat since 2015; and ...
  • Titus Matiyane, kartograaf en transnasionale flâneur 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Litnet, 2017-02)
    Die stedelike panoramas van die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Titus Matiyane (geb. 1964) − ’n eietydse buitestanderkunstenaar − is ’n waardevolle bron vir die bestudering van die begrippe geokartering en flânerie in eietydse ...
  • Western Art Music in History and Society 
    Behr, Annemie (2023)
    This presentation introduces a series of modules on Western Art Music in History and Society offered at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Aimed at Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts students, the modules provide ...
  • Visual analysis of popular disaster culture : an insight into the urban Anthropocene 
    Schoeman, Anje (2023-01-31)
    The approach of this research was conducted via an Anthropogenic Anthropological voice focusing on the life, death, life cycles of nature and culture within the Urban Anthropocene and the impact this have on non-human kin. ...

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