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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...