Department of Art and Music: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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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