UNDER CONSTRUCTION
linda hesse du preez
Curriculum Vitae
Linda du Preez (née Hesse)
CONTACT DETAILS
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 15/07/1968
Children: Erik (11) and Hannah (10).
Nationality: South African.
Driving Licence: yes.
Languages: Fully proficient in English, Afrikaans and German.
Personality profile: Specialist; Investigator.
Keirsey personality: INFJ (Introversion; Intuition; Feeling; Judging).
Personality type: Protector.
Temperament: Appolonian.
Manager profile: Human Utilisation Profile.
General: Creative. Educator. Brainstormer. Organiser. Teamworker.
Motivated. Energetic. Dedicated. Loyal. Fair. Flexible. Engaged.
SKILLS SUMMARY (selected)
Sculpture and 3D thinking and practice – Ceramics, Metals, Wood, Wax, Casting, multimedia, installation, paper and more.
Conceptual Development for the creative.
Professional Practice for the creative.
Drawing – all aspects.
Illustration.
Art Theory –various, with a particular current interest in Practice-led Research.
Supervisor to BTech and MTech students.
Curatorship.
Art Critique and evaluation.
Academic writing.
Final Cut Pro Video Editing.
Fully proficient in most PC-related programmes.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1991 - 1992 Props Maker for the Performing Arts Council in Pretoria (PACT)
1993 - 2002 Deutsche Schule Pretoria
Position: Art Teacher (also taught other subjects)
1998 Stipend to work as an art teacher and study (Julius Maximilians Universität) in Germany, Würzburg.
2004 - 2005 Part-time lecturer in drawing techniques and presentation at the ‘Mione du Toit Skool vir Interieurontwerp’ (Potchefstroom Akademie) in Potchefstroom.
Tutor in drawing and sculpture at the University of the Witwatersrand.
2004 Production Manager for Whitewater Training’s water safety responsibilities during the making of the film Man to Man (director: Regis Wargnier).
2004 Part- time lecturer in drawing for Graphic Design (1st, 2nd and 3rd years), Department of Visual Arts and Design (VAD), Vaal University of Technology (VUT).
2005 Part- time lecturer in drawing for Graphic Design (1st, 2nd and 3rd years), VAD, VUT.
2004 - 2005 Bursar student at The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits); I taught and worked in the Fine Art School for 6 hours a week. I also assisted Associate Professor Jeremy Wafer with his sculptures.
2006 - 2010 Co-chair of the Curating Committee of the Bodutu Art Gallery, VAD@VUT
2006 - Now Full-time lecturer in Fine Arts (Sculpture, Ceramics, Drawing and Theory) in the Department of Visual Arts and Design (VAD), VUT. I am actively involved in many aspects of the Department, with specific focus on Sculpture, Ceramics, Drawing, Theory and Curriculum Development. I have been acting Programme Co-ordinator for extended periods.
2016 - 2018 Moderator for 3rd year Fine Art theory and practice, all subjects, at Walter Sisulu University in East London.
QUALIFICATIONS
1975 - 1981 Deutsche Schule Pretoria.
1982 - 1986 Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria.
1990 BA (FA) honours in sculpture and visual communication (cum laude); University of Pretoria.
1996 Art History honours; University of Pretoria.
1993 H.E.D, specialising in fine arts and art history; University of Pretoria.
2006 MA(FA); University of the Witwatersrand (supervisor: Prof. Alan Crump).
I am currently developing a proposal for a PhD degree in Practice-led Research in the Visual Arts.
SUPERVISION (selected)
2010 – now: Supervision and mentoring of 23 BTech (Fine Art) students in both theory and practice.
2016 – co-supervisor to Mr S Ngcai, who graduated successfully with an MTech in Fine Art (sculpture).
Currently co-supervising MTech students Mr Neston Kotze, Ms Lerato Moleko, Mr Thabang Moswa.
WORKSHOPS (selected)
1991 Figure drawing and ceramic sculpture under Prof. Bruno Orfei in Perugia, Italy and
Stone carving under the artist Dörte Berner, Namibia.
Certificate: Woodwork-Machinist.
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Final Cut Pro workshop at the Wits School of Arts / Digital Arts.
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Writing for Publication workshop with Prof Chris Kapp.
2009 InDesign workshop.
2009 Women in Research workshop presented by Prof Venitha Pillay.
2011 - 13 SANTRUST Doctoral Programme candidate.
2013 Seminar participant: how to develop an art career strategy. Art Source South Africa.
2014-15 Global Legacy Trust Supervisor’s Workshop Participant.
2015 MTech VAD (Visual Arts and Design) Seminar: Co-organiser and moderator.
GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS (selected)
2002 Vendor Woman. Large Bronze for the Metro Mall in Newtown, Johannesburg.
People Planet and Prosperity Exhibition at the Absa Gallery, coinciding with the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
2003 Arts Association Pretoria, Erotica exhibition.
Exhibition at Merely Mortal gallery in Johannesburg.
2004 Group exhibition at Merely Mortal gallery in Johannesburg.
Eye Shadow Show exhibition of works by Masters Students from Wits.
2005 Solo Masters Exhibition Simulacra at the Substation Gallery, Wits University Campus.
2006 Solo exhibition at the MAP gallery, Graskop Hotel, Graskop.
blackwhitecoloured exhibition with Avitha Sooful at Gallery 88, Sasolburg.
2007 Simulacra installation at the Abalone Gallery, Hermanus.
Participant in the Rendezvous Sculpture exhibition, Johannesburg.
2008 OUT-SITE site-specific exhibition, Vaal University of Technology – artist and curator.
Visuality /Commentary University of Pretoria Centenary Exhibition.
Rendezvous Sculpture exhibition, Potchefstroom.
2011 Participant in the MAP retrospective at the UJ Art Gallery, curated by Harrie Siertsema and Abrie Fourie.
VUT staff exhibition, Bodutu Art Gallery (BAG), VUT.
2012 Participant: This Place, Bodutu Art Gallery (BAG), VUT.
2013 Participant: Tom Waits for no man exhibition, KKNK 2013.
2013 Participant: Reflective Conversations, NWU Gallery.
2016 Participant: Tellus Sculptura exhibition curated by Gordon Froud at the Pretoria Arts Association.
2016 Participant: 1+1 VUT VAD Fine Art staff exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, Vanderbijlpark.
COMPETITIONS and AWARDS
1989 New Signatures Third Prize for Sculpture.
Rolfes Impressions Bronze Award.
1990 New Signatures First Prize for Sculpture.
Ines-Aab Tamsen Bursary.
2003 Top 71 Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Awards.
2003 Finalist: Sasol Wax in Art competition.
2005 Ekurhuleni Fine Art Competition: two works in the Top 15.
2008 VUT RATE Award: Highest Award for teaching excellence.
2012 VUT RATE Award: Highest Award for teaching excellence.
2013 VUT Faculty Research Award 3rd place (Research Achievement).
2015 VUT RATE Award: Highest Award for teaching excellence.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2007 Organised Lecture: William Kayamba from the Ugandan Christian University: “Ceramics in Uganda”
2009 Facilitated a Community Skills Development course in Ceramics with Sonwabiso Ngcai.
Facilitated four senior Ceramics students’ participation in the Ceramics South Africa Clay Festival ’09 in Johannesburg (Sonwabiso Ngcai, Thuli Mtshali, Sophakama Soviti and Ntswaki Mokoena).
Since 2010 Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni.
2016 Designing, decorating and painting the Parys Municipal Hospital Trauma Centre waiting room with a group of Fine Art students.
EXHIBITIONS CURATED/CO-CURATED (selected)
2004 Curator: My Left Hand exhibition by quadriplegic artist Surprise Khoza, Wits Writing Centre.
2008 Curator and Participant: OUTSITE site-specific exhibition at the VUT.
VUT Open Day exhibition (students, staff and alumni).
Fine Art Showcase.
2009 Focus on Process – Artists and Crafters from Sharpeville. Residencies in the BAG.
2009 The Visual Arts Heritage of the Vaal Metropolitan Region exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, VUT.
2009 Impromptu Visual Arts and Design staff exhibition.
2010 Emerging exhibition with Deep Rooted from Sharpeville (Tiro Malebye, Filkile Ntsaba, Archibold) and Sam Macholo, printmaker.
2011 HANG ON DINISO! Gamakhulu Diniso paying Tribute to Journalists; as part of the VUT Heritage Festival.
2013 Co-curator with Gordon Froud of the North - South exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, VUT.
2016 Curator of the 1+1 VUT VAD Fine Art staff exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, Vanderbijlpark.
2017 Curator of the Best of 2016 Student Works exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, Vanderbijlpark.
PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS and other academic work
2008 An investigation into Jeremy Wafer’s appropriation of ‘amansumpa’ nodules in his relief sculptures. Presented at the VUT Faculty Research Seminar.
2009 Visual Arts Heritage of the Vaal Metropolitan Region: Attempting to Reconstruct a Neglected Archive; co-author with Prince Mbusi Dube and Anneke Laurie; published by Bodutu Art Gallery, Vaal University of Technology, 2009; ISBN 0620447664, 9780620447669.
2011 INsideOUT Explicating states of the internal emotive body into evocative forms using mimesis. A practice-based research study in the visual arts. Presented at the VUT Faculty Research Seminar.
Guest Speaker at the Dying Light (Graphic Design) exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery.
Opening speaker at the Scrapes and Scapes exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery.
2012 Presentation This Place: This Place Colloquium, Bodutu Art Gallery (BAG), VUT.
Opening Speaker at the Zak Benjamin Retrospective exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery
2013 Du Preez, L. The Dancer's Moment. Art South Africa Volume 12; Number 2; December P.122- 123. ISSN/ISBN 16846133.
Referee: Presentation of Visual Research for UJ Fine Art student.
2014 Du Preez, L. “Hollow”: Reflections on practice, the artefact and the body. SAJAH, ISSN 0258-3542, volume 29, number 4, 2014: 1-14.
2015 Reviewed abstracts and papers for DEFSA (Design and Education Forum South Africa).
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians), which includes memberships to ACASA (Arts Council of the African Studies Association) and CIHA (International s’Histoire de l’Art).
Member of Ceramics South Africa.
VAD Supervisor’s Forum since 2014
DEFSA (Design Educator’s Forum of South Africa) reviewer 2016 and 2017.
LINDA DU PREEZ PERFORMANCE TIMELINE (VUT)
2004
Part- time lecturer in drawing for Graphic Design (1st, 2nd and 3rd years), Department of Visual Arts and Design (VAD), Vaal University of Technology (VUT).
2005
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Ekurhuleni Fine Art Competition: two works in the Top 15.
Solo Masters Exhibition Simulacra at the Substation Gallery, Wits University Campus.
Final Cut Pro workshop at the Wits School of Arts / Digital Arts.
Teaching duties (part time lecturer):
Drawing Lecturer in Graphic Design and Fine Art 1st year drawing
2006
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Solo exhibition at the MAP gallery, Graskop Hotel, Graskop.
blackwhitecoloured exhibition with Avitha Sooful at Gallery 88, Sasolburg.
Workshops attended:
Writing for Publication workshop with Prof Chris Kapp.
Teaching duties (full time lecturer):
BTech student Sculpture: Marli Joubert (practice and long essay, with distinction)
Fine Art Sculpture 2, 3 and BTech;
Fine Art and Graphic Design Drawing.
2007
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Simulacra sculpture installation at the Abalone Gallery, Hermanus.
Participant in the Rendezvous Sculpture exhibition, Johannesburg.
Community Service:
Organised Lecture: William Kayamba from the Ugandan Christian University: “Ceramics in Uganda”
Teaching duties:
Ceramics 2, 3, 4;
Sculpture 2, 3, 4.
Facilitated the finalisation of Annette Schultz BTech in Ceramic Design.
2008
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Visuality/Commentary University of Pretoria Centenary Exhibition.
Rendezvous Sculpture exhibition, Potchefstroom.
OUTSITE site-specific exhibition at the VUT.
An investigation into Jeremy Wafer’s appropriation of ‘amansumpa’ nodules in his relief sculptures. Presented at the VUT Faculty Research Seminar.
Curator and organiser: OUTSITE site-specific exhibition at the VUT. A site-specific art exhibition on the VUT campus (artists participating amongst others are Guy du Toit, Gordon Froud, Avitha Sooful, Anneke Laurie, Linda du Preez).
Curator: VUT Open Day exhibition (students, staff and alumni).
Curator: Fine Art Showcase.
Workshops attended:
Interactive workshop by Heath Nash organised by the British Council.
Community service:
Paperclay workshop with students with Elza van Dijk
Thabang Society, assistance and advice: clinic and orphanages in Tumahole, Parys.
Student matters:
Sculpture student Gift Molamodi won a special award in the Eskom EELDC Gauteng
Teaching duties:
Ceramics 2, 3,
Sculpture 2, 3.
BTech Ceramics practice and long essay (Thifhelimbilu Suzette Matshidze);
Awards:
RATE highest award for teaching excellence
2009
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Visual Arts Heritage of the Vaal Metropolitan Region: Attempting to Reconstruct a Neglected Archive; co-author with Prince Mbusi Dube and Anneke Laurie; published by Bodutu Art Gallery, Vaal University of Technology, 2009; ISBN 0620447664, 9780620447669.
Curator and participant: Impromptu Visual Arts and Design staff exhibition.
Curator: Focus on Process – Artists and Crafters from Sharpeville. Residencies in the BAG.
Curator: The Visual Arts Heritage of the Vaal Metropolitan Region exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, VUT.
Research presentation with Anneke Laurie: OUTSITE site-specific exhibition at the VUT exhibition.
Workshops attended:
InDesign workshop.
Women in Research workshop presented by Prof Venitha Pillay.
Community Service:
Facilitated a Community Skills Development course in Ceramics with Sonwabiso Ngcai.
Facilitated four senior Ceramics students’ participation in the Ceramics South Africa Clay Festival ’09 in Johannesburg (Sonwabiso Ngcai, Thuli Mtshali, Sophakama Soviti and Ntswaki Mokoena).
Setting up the Bodutu Art Gallery.
Assisting the SPCA (Parys) with their application for lottery funding.
General:
Applying for and receiving a National Arts Council NAC funding grant for the exhibition Visual Arts Heritage of the Vaal Metropolitan Region
Teaching Duties:
Foundation Course;
Ceramics 2, 3;
Sculpture 2, 3
BTech Drawing practice (Linda Rademan)
BTech sculpture practice and long essay (Candice van Buul, Sonwabiso Ngcai)
2010
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Curator: Emerging exhibition with Deep Rooted from Sharpeville (Tiro Malebye, Filkile Ntsaba, Archibold) and Sam Macholo, printmaker.
Commission:
Multiple sculpture piece titled Vertebrae for Dr Pieter Aucamp, Orthopaedic surgeon, for his consultation waiting room at the Emfuleni Mediclinic Hospital in Vanderbijlpark.
Workshops attended:
Attendance of the Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town.
Women in Research workshop presented by Prof Venitha Pillay.
Community Service:
PPC Young Sculptor’s Award workshop
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni.
Teaching Duties:
Ceramics 2, 3
Sculpture 2, 3
BTech Drawing long essay (Linda Rademan)
BTech ceramics: Realeboha Mohai
MTech supervisor: Sonwabiso Ngcai
2011
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
INsideOUT Explicating states of the internal emotive body into evocative forms using mimesis. A practice-based research study in the visual arts. Presented at the VUT Faculty Research Seminar.
Curator: HANG ON DINISO! Gamakhulu Diniso paying Tribute to Journalists; as part of the VUT Heritage Festival.
Participant in the MAP retrospective at the UJ Art Gallery, curated by Harrie Siertsema and Abrie Fourie.
Participant: VUT staff exhibition, Bodutu Art Gallery (BAG), VUT.
Workshops attended:
SANTRUST Doctoral Programme candidate.
General:
Guest Speaker at the Dying Light (Graphic Design) exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery.
Opening speaker at the Scrapes and Scapes exhibition (Bodutu Art Gallery).
Community Service:
PPC Young Sculptor’s Award workshop.
Facilitating a Ceramics Workshop at Groenpunt Prison.
I took Ceramics students on Friday July 22, 2011 to Southern African Ceramic Workshop and lectures hosted by the Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design- University of Johannesburg. An overview of principal Modern potteries in Southern Africa, including a consideration of the problematics associated with the integration of indigenous traditions into Modern Western media by Wendy Gers.
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni.
Student matters:
Sculpture student Sonwabiso Ngcai is a finalist in the Sasol New Signatures Competition.
He had an entry in the top Gauteng regional entries in the Absa L’Atelier Art Competition.
Teaching Duties:
Facilitator for 3rd year Fine Art
BTech theory: Realeboha Mohai
MTech: Sonwabiso Ngcai, Tsholofelo Moche
Sculpture 2 and 3
Ceramics 2 and 3
Drawing 3
Foundation Course Project: Colourful Characterisation; theory: Significant Signs and Symbols
2012
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Participant: This Place, Bodutu Art Gallery (BAG), VUT.
Presentation This Place: This Place Colloquium, Bodutu Art Gallery (BAG), VUT.
Workshops attended:
SANTRUST Doctoral Programme candidate.
Attendance of the Toffie Pop Festival on Popular Culture (Presentations, Workshops, Lectures).
Active involvement with the Fine Art Programme Changes and Curriculum Development.
Simon Oldfield workshop on Curriculum Development
Community Service:
Opening Speaker at the Zak Benjamin Retrospective exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery.
Co-curator with Gordon Froud of the North - South exhibition at The Fringe of the Johannesburg Art Fair.
Student excursion to Galleries, The Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg Art Gallery, etc.
PPC Young Sculptor’s Award workshop
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni.
Teaching Duties:
Facilitator for 3rd year Fine Art
Link 3 Foundation Course 2011 Visual Literacy/Creative Thinking
Acting Senior Lecturer
Curriculum Development
Fine Art Theory 1: Visual Literacy
Sculpture 2, 3
BTech students: Oupa Vusi Mokwena, Siphokazi Zondi, Thabang Moswa, Matshidiso Ramonotsi
MTech: Sonwabiso Ngcai
General:
Acting Senior lecturer whilst the senior lecturer Avitha Sooful is on leave.
2013
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Du Preez, L. The Dancer's Moment. Art South Africa Volume 12; Number 2; December
P.122- 123. ISSN/ISBN 16846133.
Co-curator with Gordon Froud of the North - South exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, VUT.
Participant: Tom Waits for no man exhibition, KKNK 2013.
Participant: Reflective Conversations, NWU Gallery.
Referee for the presentation of visual research: University of Johannesburg Graphic Design.
Workshops attended:
Marco Cianfanelli and Standard Bank: Social engagement workshop with emerging artists: workshop and demonstrations with the sculpture students.
SANTRUST Doctoral Programme candidate.
Professional Practice for the Visual Artist Workshop with Art Source South Africa.
Community Service:
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni.
Teaching Duties:
Facilitator for 3rd year Fine Art
Fine Art Sculpture 2, 3.
BTech practice and theory: Cornida Shabangu, Lebohang Motaung, Neston Kotze, Nonhlanhla Mahkhubu, Oupa Vusi Mokwena, Thabang Moswa
Fine Art Theory 2 Module 1
Awards:
Faculty Research Awards: 3rd Place.
2014
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Du Preez, L. “Hollow”: Reflections on practice, the artefact and the body. SAJAH, ISSN 0258-3542, volume 29, number 4, 2014: 1-14.
Workshops attended:
Global Legacy Trust Supervisor’s Workshop Participant.
Community Service:
Sculpture Student excursion to the studio of Angus Taylor and Solo exhibition at the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
VAD Supervisor’s Forum
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni.
Teaching Duties:
The Creative Campus Initiative: Collaborative Fine Art Induction Programme.
Fine Art Theory 3 Module 1 plus setting up of the study guide
BTech: Lucia Radebe
MTech: Neston Kotze, Sonwabiso Ngcai
Sculpture 2, 3
2015
Workshops attended:
Global Legacy Trust Supervisor’s Workshop Participant (cont.).
Li Bin Symposium attendance at UJ
MTech Colloquium: organising committee and moderator
Community Service:
Community Service Project: Making the Trauma Centre at the Parys Hospital child- and victim-friendly (murals and soft furnishing)
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni (over 500 likes reached).
Teaching Duties:
Compiling the Fine Art BTech Research Methodology 4 study guide
Mentor to BTech students: Makoma Mohale, Matshidiso Ramonotsi, Alisa Manatsakanian,
MTech facilitator for Fine Art
Fine Art Theory 3 Module 1
Sculpture 3 and 4
Ceramics 3 and 4
MTech co-supervisor: Neston Kotze, Sonwabiso Ngcai, Thabang Moswa.
Sonwabiso Ngcai’s final submission for his MTech is 29 October 2015.
Other:
Reviewer of academic submissions (abstracts and papers) for the DEFSA (Design and Education Forum South Africa) conference.
Member: SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians).
Member: VAD supervisor’s forum
2016
Acting senior lecturer and course co-ordinator: November - December
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
Curator of the 1+1 VUT VAD Fine Art staff exhibition at the Bodutu Art Gallery, Vanderbijlpark.
Participant: “Tellus Sculptura” at the Pretoria Arts Association.
Community Service:
Making the Trauma Centre at the Parys Hospital child- and victim-friendly (murals and soft furnishing): Project completed.
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni (over 500 likes reached).
Teaching Duties:
BTech:
BTech facilitator for Fine Art
Mentor to BTech students: Lerato Moleko, Montleemang Boitumelo, Lettah Mantswe, Nombuso Maseko, Tlangi Holeni.
Fine Art Theory 3 Module 1
Sculpture 3 and 4
Ceramics 3 and 4
MTech graduate: Sonwabiso Ngcai
MTech co-supervisor: Neston Kotze, Thabang Moswa
Other:
Reviewer of academic submissions (abstracts and papers) for the DEFSA (Design and Education Forum South Africa) conference.
Member: SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians).
Member: VAD supervisor’s forum
External moderator: Walter Sisulu University Fine Art 3rd year Fine Art Programme.
2017
Acting Senior Lecturer and course co-ordinator: January – March
Exhibitions, Presentations and/or Publications:
January/February: Curator of the “Best of 2016 Student exhibition” at the Bodutu Art Gallery, Vanderbijlpark.
Community Service:
Managing the K-Block VUT Facebook page which networks and communicates art-related information, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, events, competitions, opportunities and positions to students and alumni (over 500 likes reached).
Teaching Duties:
Mentor to BTech students: Mosa Moche, Segolame Kabo, Zama Sukati
BTech facilitator for Fine Art
Fine Art Theory 3 Module 1
Sculpture 3 and 4
Ceramics 3 and 4
MTech co-supervisor: Neston Kotze, Thabang Moswa, Lerato Moleko
Other:
Reviewer of academic submissions (abstracts and papers) for the DEFSA (Design and Education Forum South Africa) conference.
Member: SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians).
Member: VAD supervisor’s forum
External moderator: Walter Sisulu University Fine Art 3rd year Fine Art Programme.