Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)
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Exploring the transition from art student to art educator through visual diaries
(2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My journey as an art student, volunteering facilitator and later as an arts educator has thus far been riddled with the fear of failure, a common experience for anyone hoping to have a positive social ... -
Processing self: negotiating the tensions of Muslim womanhood through art-making in South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates processing the sociocultural complexities of being a South African Muslim woman, both locally and globally. The labyrinth of being a Muslim woman lends itself to questioning my ... -
Contemporary jewellery as gnosis: interpreting alchemy through contemporary jewellery objects
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a practiced based enquiry that concerns itself with the interpretation of the ideas of alchemy through the creation of a range of contemporary jewellery pieces. This study consists of both ... -
Making otherwise: negotiating the spatial context of Stellenbosch University through situated making
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Student political activism on South African University campuses during the 2015/16 fallist period highlights not only issues pertaining to Western university curricula, institutional culture, and access ... -
A framework for designing South African mobile learning experiences through a participatory design process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With a global trend towards digital and mobile learning in basic education, which has been recently spurred on by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the South African government has committed to large-scale ... -
Ever-shifting matter: an investigation into the spatial, temporal, and sensorial process of my artmaking
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the written component of my practice-based research. This piece of writing takes the form of a journal in which I discuss my interest in the philosophy and practice of meditation, and the ... -
Iteration: repetition as a ceative process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My work and research stems from intuitive ways of working and a haptic understanding of materials and repetitive processes. The fragments that collect and assemble in my work are inspired by connections ... -
Investigating the online teaching experiences of educators during the Covid-19 lockdown
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-11)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for educational transformation as schools and universities had no choice but to implement online learning during government mandated lockdowns worldwide. The ... -
Illusive objects: An investigation into the embodiment of memory through contemporary jewellery
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation encompasses an investigation into the multifaceted and open-ended nature of memory. I interrogate my childhood memories, situated in the context of my grandparents’ home, through ... -
Agency through art: exploring self-efficacy in grade ten to twelve art learners at a private school in the Free State
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research explored results pertaining to adolescents’ agency over their artistic practice. After working with grade ten to twelve art learners in a private education setting, I noticed insecurity with ... -
Three high school educators’ views on the influence of play on learners, with a focus on the current shift to online learning – a case study in the Western Cape of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: I recognised the value of ‘play’ in my own art practice, while studying towards a Fine Art undergraduate degree. Approaching the making process with play allowed an exploratory process instead of a pressured ... -
Exploring how teaching and learning practices and Hindu and Buddhist rituals can contribute to social cohesion in a multicultural classroom.
(2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explored how ritual practices form part of everyday teaching and learning and how Hindu and Buddhist rituals can further contribute to social cohesion in a multicultural classroom. The investigation ... -
Die ondersoek van die Ceres geforseerde narratiewe met die doel om drie woordelose storieboeke te publiseer.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Storytelling connects the past to the present. Since the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, there has always been a strive towards restoring the injustices of the past. Generations before us ... -
Time to think: fostering critical and creative thinking through a practice-based investigation of the effects of time and space in the field of art education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: my own experience as an artist, I have found the relations between time, space, matter and self to be fascinating subjects. The effort of understanding the impact these notions have on our behaviours led ... -
Investigating transformation and decolonization at an institutional galley in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : During the final years of my undergraduate program, the student protests of #FeesMustFall had swept the country. The topic of decolonization came to the fore at many campuses in South Africa. From the ... -
Walking woman: how can walking, drawing and writing be used to reclaim public space; both physically and virtually?
(2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African women and queer individuals are continuously fighting for freedom of mobility through forms of activism and protest in order to combat high statistics of gender-based violence. In this ... -
The body of the photograph: fragments and relations of desire
(2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research project investigates what I refer to as the body of the photograph. I consider the practice, process and experience of artmaking as crucial components that all have bearing on the materiality ... -
White on the silver screen: the construction of white South African identity in international film
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the context of ‘identity’, much attention has been given to academic considerations of diversity, or the lack thereof, in the international film industry. While this is positive, there is much opportunity ... -
Becoming and Unbecoming: A critical cartography of a student journey through the Fallist period
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa's 'born-free' generation - those who were born during the country's transition to democracy - were reaching adulthood in the early 201 Os. In the years that followed, this new, post-Apartheid ... -
Creepy, cute and radically soft: unpacking the importance of contemporary feminist erotic art
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The value of art that lies beyond surface levels of aestheticism has been discussed in academic depth, yet a feminist erotic art tends to escape such analyses, possibly due to its fringe status both in ...
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