• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• Creativity, imagination and play in children’s picture books : the importance of creative problem-solving 

  Simpson, Stephanie (2023-09-15)

  This practice-based study sets out to identify creative triggers found in contemporary children’s picture books that encourage playful approaches in readers with a view to them applying their imaginations as they navigate ...
• A practice-based and practice-led study on the impact of art fairs on promoting grassroots visual artists in South Africa from 2015 to 2017 

  Mosako, Daniel Rankadi (2022-02)

  In the global art market, art fairs have become very popular art events. This thesis examines whether and how major art fairs in South Africa empower visual artists at the grassroots level. The study used practice-based ...
• Resisting iconoclasm: contemporary responses to landscape in South African art 

  Luyt, Carmi (2022-08)

  This dissertation sets out to find the ways in which contemporary performance artists problematise and resist the iconoclasms found in modernist landscape paintings. The landscape paintings of Maggie Laubser, J.H. Pierneef ...
• Towards an integrated performance management system for university libraries in Ghana 

  Amoah, Gloria Bosomtwi (2022-03)

  This study investigated the performance management system practices in Ghanaian university libraries to develop a framework for implementing an integrated performance management system for university libraries. The study ...
• Public art in relation to social systems : a case study of #rhodesmustfall 

  Darries, Mouroodah Sulayman (2022-09)

  The recent trend in removing statues of controversial figures from history prompts a need to consider a revisionist approach to studying publicly sited artworks, particularly when the social dynamic engages public art in ...
• Lifting the veil on ‘a good jam’: describing the coordination dynamics of an acoustic jazz trio 

  Spies, Werner Hans (2022-03)

  As a professional bass player and teacher I have experienced various instances of musicians interacting with one another in a group setting. These interactions varied from school ensembles, music students at a tertiary ...
• Judaic diasporic hybrid hauntings 

  Kopping, Jennifer (2022-01)

  In this research, both discursive and in practice, I give account of my Judaic family dispersal, which requires a particular interaction and interrelationship between the past and the present. This interrelationship forms ...
• Affordances for the guitar : chordal structures for performance in the worship music of Chris Tomlin 

  Roman, Paul David (2022-03)

  Just as a door handle invites a user to either push it or pull it, certain aspects of guitar chords invite the player to move from one chord more easily to one or another chord. This user-friendly aspect of certain guitar ...
• Mirror-mirror on the wall: a multi-semiotic and critical discourse analysis of Mr Price and H & M facebook advertisements 

  Naidu, Karunithie (2020-11-23)

  The intention of this investigation was to examine how images of feminine beauty were constructed in the Facebook advertising of retailers Mr Price and H&M. The study examined whether western and European ideals of feminine ...
• Music and Presbyterianism at the Lovedale Missionary Institute, 1841–1955 

  Pieters, Vivienne (2021-12)

  This history of music and Presbyterianism at the Lovedale Missionary Institute focuses on the work of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries, students and graduates of Lovedale in the period 1841 to 1955. The period under ...
• Moving with the times : a critical investigation into the socio-political and cultural relevance of the current collection policies and strategies of the MTN Art Collection 

  Nortje, Daniel Johannes Rudolf (2020-11)

  The core of this research study is concerned with the importance of a strategically aligned acquisitions policy for a corporate art collection in order for it to remain relevant to and increase its value for the company ...
• Narrative strategies in the creation of animated poetry-films 

  Grobler, Diek, 1964- (2021-02)

  This doctoral study investigates the practice of narrative strategies in the creation of animated poetry-film. The status of the animator as auteur of the poetry-film is established on the grounds of the multiple instances ...
• At low tide : an absence of water, and abundance of plastic 

  Obermeyer, Chloe (2021-02)

  This project deals with the concepts of care, contentedness and self-reflection in light of the ecological plights that face our planet and the way that my artistic practice reflects this. It achieves this by focusing on ...
• Visual strategies in video art : the simulation of traumatic memories 

  Odendaal, Marié Antoinette (2021-02)

  This was a practice-led study, in which I critically engaged with my own video artwork alongside the video works of three other artists. Selected works of Penny Siopis, Anders Weberg, Maja Zack and mine deal with the notions ...

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