Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)
Recent Submissions
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The lived experiences of street-based sex workers in Woodstock, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)English Abstract: This study presents ‘Participatory Action’ based research, combined with first person narration and lived experiences, that was conducted with street-based sex workers, based in Woodstock, Cape Town, ... -
Examining the flipped classroom approach to teaching in a creative development setting in higher education in South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a traditional classroom setting teachers tend to teach their class with little interaction with their students. The ‘flipped’ classroom approach has received attention for its potential as a new ... -
The effects of social media on the revitalisation of feminism and coloured women's identity politics
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite the movement towards cultivating a democracy since 1994, South Africa is a country which still faces many challenges as a result of political and racial remnants of the Apartheid regime. With ... -
An investigation of affect responses drawn from South African tertiary level visual communication students by means of illustrating the corporeal feminine through comic book art.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sequential narratives, generally referred to as comics, which directly address the nature of the female body and its flows, have both been censured and praised. These comics have resulted in affecting ... -
On mystical form
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is not a conventional thesis. It brings together ideas that do not self-evidently belong together. The common denominator throughout is myself: my conceptual and art-making process. The ideas I ... -
The abject, frail fourth age body: art jewellery as a tool to re-interpret aged female bodies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates art jewellery as social communicator and questions the way in which the Fourth Age female individual is perceived. The argument of this thesis will be presented in conjunction ... -
To wonder: a cartography of information technology as a hidden curriculum and its effect on learning environments for art education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During my artistic studies within the South African educational system, I gradually learnt how to voice the problems that ideologies and methodologies cause when used in the teaching of standardised ... -
Hillsong’s Colour Sisterhood and Feminism within the Context of South Africa: A Critical Analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a critical analysis of Hillsong’s Colour Sisterhood movement and Colour Conference event in Cape Town during 2017. Following Shireen Hassim’s argument for the recognition of non-political ... -
Between colour lines : interrogating the category ‘coloured’ in depictions of District Six in the work of five South African artists
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Group Areas Act of 1950 radically affected coloured artists of the time, since it resulted in forced removals and the demolition of traditionally ‘coloured’ suburbs, and forced coloured people into ... -
The story of Charlotte Maxeke : an analysis of how visual arts can be utilised to reflect on race, gender, identity and citizenship in the South African higher educational context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The history of South Africa represents oppressive systems of racial discrimination and subjugation, systems that were used in the construction of social institutions. Grounded in the institutionalisation ... -
The story of how it was made : an investigation of artistic practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This book is centred on the very act of artistic creation, in other words making. I aim to demonstrate that art making is a meaningful, generative and transformative activity. Specifically, I will argue ... -
Punt, lyn en vlak : tekenpraktyk as demokratiese wyse van maak.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I ask the question: How to move from a point of state to an expanded and changed field with new possibilities? In this study the standpoint is held that both design and art is transforming ... -
Exploring safe spaces for students to engage with critical and caring thinking regarding portrayals of ‘self’ and ‘other’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an educator at a private higher education institution, I have observed that there is very little critical dialogue on politically sensitive issues in the classes I teach. A sense of rainbowism, which ... -
Criss-cross : on weaving as a time-based process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates weaving as a method concerned with the process of making rather than a process centred around the outcome (as is customary). My work is situated in a fast-paced and technologically-driven ... -
Redrawing ecology : dark ecological thought in art-design practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis follows my practice based research process as a visual communication designer concerned with visualising deep ecological thought. Throughout this thesis, I apply Timothy Morton’s dark ecology ... -
Perceptions of globalisation : how high school learners perceive and express their understanding of globalisation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an art educator, my role is to assist learners to assign a deeper meaning to art. Learners need to be guided to connect with art on a greater than superficial level based on the obvious aesthetic. ... -
Minding matter : reflecting and fixating on landscape painting
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aimed to consolidate the changes in my perception of the concept of landscape brought about while creating a body of landscape paintings. In the context of practice-based research (reflection-in-action ... -
'The horror without object' : a philosophical enquiry into photography, archives, and absence in Project Coast
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Following the 1997 arrest of Wouter Basson, South Africans watched in horror how the TRC began to unravel one of apartheid South Africa’s most sordid secrets: Project Coast, South Africa’s chemical and ... -
Cementing belief : tracing the history of Modernist Afrikaans church architecture, 1955-1975
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I examine the phenomenon of Modernist Afrikaans Protestant church architecture in the South African built environment during the mid- to late 20th century. I trace the relation of the ... -
Confronting the museum's colonial past : towards new strategies of institutional critique
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers how colonial narratives imbedded in the museum institution, may be unsettled and reframed by artist interventions. My interest in this subject is to question whether these interventions ...
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