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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 RankadiMosako, Daniel RankadiMosako, 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although this paper focuses largely on the Anthropocene, it is not about the local or global
dangers of climate changes and escalation of pollution. It is about the diverse responses of
selected artists and humanists ...
The collection of art by South African universities was inherent to colonial practice and central to this was a Eurocentric, colonial logic of classification and justification. As a decolonial project, I argue for the ...
In this article I examine the production of
tronies or head studies of people of African
origin made by the Flemish artists Peter Paul
Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jan I Brueghel,
Jacob Jordaens and Gaspar de Crayer in ...
Bruce Cassidy’s Body Electric appeared briefly in the 1990s in Johannesburg to
perform a number of concerts there, including two concerts at the University of
the Witwatersrand. Led by the Canadian-born Cassidy and formed ...
The author discusses the musical staging of Italian double bass player and composer Roberto Bonati of his extended composition of "The Blanket of the Dark: A Study for Lady Macbeth" at the International Spring Music Festival ...
Until today, David I Ryckaert (Antwerp, 15602 - 1607, Antwerp) has been considered the
patriarch of three generations of painters living and working in Antwerp. Except for Manteuffel3,
most authors4 agree that he was the ...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the possibilities offered by Post-Africanism – a
new perspective coined by Denis Ekpo and proposed as an alternative to
postcolonialism. He defines Post-Africanism as an attempt ...
This article investigates the representation of "dulle Griet" by the seventeenth-century artists David II Teniers and David III Ryckaert in the context of Catholic Flanders. In a society preoccupied with hierarchical order ...
Van Haute, Bernadette(Brill Online Books and Journals, 2008)
Willem Bartsius (c.1612 – in or after 1639) is a seventeenth-century Dutch painter
whose artistic output has puzzled art historians. Only six signed works have survived
and on the basis of stylistic analogy, another ten ...