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  List of Academic Staff MembersWe recognise that the quality and depth of our teaching as a School is dependent, to a large degree, on the quality of our research as academics. All members of our staff have extensive research profiles that do justice to these quality requirements. The scope of research areas covered includes the production of art for national and international exhibitions; curatorship of exhibitions and museums; videographic and multi-media installations; the publication of books; international conference organisation; public commissions and consultation on government and public visual, historical and architectural projects. Our staff members have received numerous national and international awards. We have three research centres associated with the School. These are the South African Centre for Photography, LLAREC and the Institute for Film and New Media.

There are generally two staff members expert in each of the above-named research areas. However, the wide breadth of professional and research experience amongst the staff allows for flexibility in teaching, in that specific staff skills can be utilised throughout the Programme. Staff members also contribute to the theory programme in areas relating to their own research.



  Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander completed her BAFA and her MAFA at the University of the Witwatersrand. She teaches sculpture, and works mainly with figurative sculpture installation and tableaux, and photomontage. Her research interests include migration, security, and contemporary art production in Africa and the Diaspora as well as its reception, distribution and marketing within an international context.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7143
email: jane.alexander@uct.ac.za



  Jean Brundrit

Jean Brundrit completed her BA(FA) and an Adv Dip in Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She completed a MAFA at the University of Stellenbosch in 2000. Before joining the Michaelis School of Fine Art in June 2008 she taught in the Visual Art Department at Stellenbosch University. Brundrit specializes in photography with her teaching interests extending from historic printing processes to digital image synthesis. Her research focus is identity and lesbian sexuality in South Africa.

tel: +27 (0)21 480-7108
email: jean.brundrit@uct.ac.za



  Kurt Campbell

Kurt Campbell is a lecturer in Fine Art (Design). He completed his undergraduate degree and postgraduate Education studies at the University of Cape Town. He obtained his Masters degree from Stellenbosch University where he taught for four years before joining the Michaelis School of Fine Art. His academic interests include Design History, Design theory and Postcolonial theory. He works in both digital and traditional media.

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email: Kurt.Campbell@uct.ac.za



  Stephen Inggs

Associate Professor Stephen Inggs is the Director of the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He holds a Master of Arts (Fine Art) degree from the University of Natal and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from the University of Brighton, England. Inggs holds regular solo exhibitions of his creative work nationally and internationally. These exhibitions reflect his interest in the identity and representation of places and overlooked objects as emblems of transience, exploring their history, cultural residue and meaning. His work has been included in numerous international group exhibitions and art fairs such as AIPAD, Art Chicago, Photo LA, A.r.e.a. Art Region End of Africa in Reykjavik, Iceland and the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland where he was a prizewinner.

Inggs has also curated and produced numerous print portfolios, published an artists’ book on the art and technique of lithography and co-convened the 3rd Impact International Printmaking Conference. He is co-founder of the Katrine Harries Print Cabinet with Pippa Skotnes at the UCT which has been instrumental in promoting printmaking as well as conserving and exhibiting prints in the collection. Inggs work is held in numerous collections including Iziko South African National Gallery, Durban Art Gallery, University of Cape Town, Rand Merchant Bank, MTN, Sanlam, Northwestern University, the Library of Congress and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, USA.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7109
email: stephen.inggs@uct.ac.za


  Svea Josephy

Svea Josephy is a Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography). She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1993) and completed a Masters of Arts in Fine Arts at the University of Stellenbosch, in 2001. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Business Studies at the University of Wales (2002). Her research interests include Sub Saharan African photography, South African photography, colonial photography, documentary photography, contemporary South African art and photo-based practise, feminist photography, popular culture and contemporary theory. Svea Josephy teaches Photography, Foundation and Discourse of Art.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7146
email: svea.josephy@uct.ac.za



  Andrew Lamprecht

Andrew Lamprecht has lectured Theory & Practice of Art at Michaelis since 1998. Appointed as a full-time staff member in February 2001 he currently convenes the Discourse of Art major as well as Theory & Practice of Art III & IV. He is also responsible for the Curatorship course offered to students enrolled in the Post-Graduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies. He has taught short courses at the Cape Technikon and in the Department of Historical Studies at UCT. Before his permanent appointment to Michaelis he was convenor of the Thinking About Business II foundation course for the Commerce Faculty. His current research focuses on representations of Jews in South African culture as well as the theoretical issues related to textuality and visuality.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7140
email: andrew.lamprecht@uct.ac.za



  Fritha Langerman

Fritha Langerman is a senior lecturer teaching in the printmedia and drawing sections of the school as well as in the first year foundation course. She trained at the University of Cape Town MFA (Printmaking). Research interests include bookarts; the museum object; scientific representation of the body and the display and ordering of information; monuments and memorialisation in South African history.

Specific research interests are concerned with the vocabulary that art, particularly printmaking, has given biomedical science in the visualisation of its discipline and the implications that this may have for the manner in which both contemporary printmaking and biomedical imaging are symbolically understood. Current projects involve working towards a major curated exhibition and publication that examines the politics of representation and imaging of inherited and acquired disease. Her most recent series of solo exhibitions, Of Symmetries and Oxymorons and The Knowledge Chambers, articulated an interest in visual knowledge systems and the disruption, interference and mis-translation that occurs between different information systems and technologies.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7115
email: fritha.langerman@uct.ac.za



  Virginia MacKenny

Virginia MacKenny is a Senior Lecturer in Painting. She completed her BAFA at the University of Natal in 1980 and MA in Gender Studies in 2001. She has received a number of awards including the Volkskas Atelier Award (1991) and the Ampersand Fellowship in New York (2004). She is an independent critic and curator. In 2006 she co-curated with Gabi Ncgobo Second to None an exhibition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March on Pretoria to protest the pass laws, for Iziko South African National Gallery. A previous KZN editor for www.artthrob.co.za, she was an invited writer for Sophie Perryer’s 10 Years 100 Artists – Art in a Democratic South Africa (2004). She supports contemporary visual arts discourse in SA by writing catalogue essays and for Art South Africa. In 2006 she presented papers at conferences in Mumbai and Paris on aspects of South African contemporary art production. She was a national selector for Spier Contemporary 2007 and in 2008 she had a solo exhibition of paintings, Foam Along the Waterline, at UCT’s Irma Stern Museum and in 2009 Crossing at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg.

MacKenny is interested in contemporary South African art with a special emphasis on painting, video art and Performance art (with particular reference to gender and ecofeminism). She is currently working on a book project on Southern African artists who are concerned with the environment and climate change issues.


tel: +27 (0)21 480-7119
email: virginia.mackenny@uct.ac.za



  Colin Richards

Colin Richards began his academic career as lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1985 after completing a BA (FA) with distinction at the University of South Africa (Pretoria). He subsequently completed postgraduate studies at the University of London and was awarded his PhD at Wits University in 1995. He was appointed Professor in the Wits School of Arts in 2002 and moved to Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2010. Professor Richards' research interests are contemporary art theory and practice with special reference to Africa and he has published widely in this area. He is also an exhibiting artist and curator, and is with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as an art therapist.

tel: +27 (0)21 480-7107
email: colin.richards@uct.ac.za



  Rael Salley

Raél Jero Salley, Ph.D. is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Painting and Discourse). Salley is an artist, cultural theorist and art historian. He holds degrees from The Rhode Island School of Design (BFA), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), and The University of Chicago (Ph.D.). His research interests include modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a focus on practices of Black Diaspora.

tel: +27 (0)21 480-7102
email: rael.salley@uct.ac.za



  Pippa Skotnes

Pippa Skotnes is an artist, curator, author, director of the Centre for Curating the Archive and project leader (with Carolyn Hamilton of the APC) of the Archive and Curatorship initiative. She has a Master of Fine Art and a Doctor of Literature degree. Her major interests include bookarts, curatorship, representation and the San (in particular rock art and the Bleek and Lloyd archive) and the visual as a site of meaning. Major projects have included various publications around the Bleek and Lloyd archive (housed at UCT’s Manuscripts and Archives library, Iziko and the National Library) including Sound from the thinking strings (1991, which won the UCT Book Award); In the wake of the white wagons (1993, which was the Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner exhibition); Miscast: negotiating the presence of Bushmen (1996, which accompanied a major exhibition at the SA National Gallery); The digital Bleek and Lloyd , a complete, searchable digital archive published with the book Claim to the country (2007); Unconquerable Spirit: George Stow’s history paintings of the San (2008, accompanied by an exhibition at Iziko South African Museum). More recently she published Rock art made in translation (2010, to accompany an exhibition at the Iziko SAM) and Landscape to literature (2011), a catalogue to the exhibition of the same name at the Michaelis Galleries which marked the centenary conference of the publication of Bleek and Lloyd's Specimens of Bushman folklore. She is currently working on the life and work of nineteenth century magistrate, Louis Anthing and is intrigued by holes in the ground.

The Centre for Curating the Archive is engaged with several digitising and research projects and also houses a photographic archive and the University of Cape Town’s Katrine Harries Print Cabinet, jointly curated with Stephen Inggs, which produced a portfolio in homage to Cecil Skotnes entitled Homage (2009). In 2008 she curated an exhibition on Cecil Skotnes’s private archive (with Thomas Cartwright, titled: Cecil Skotnes: a private view) which was exhibited at the SA National Gallery and the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg.

Other projects have included Lamb of God, an exhibition of three bone books and other work (2004) exhibited in Europe and the USA (2009, accompanied by the artist's book Book of iterations) and, in 2006, a permanent 127 cabinet installation for the Origins Museum at the University of the Witwatersrand with Malcolm Payne, as well as several visual history publications. She is currently convenor of Post Graduate Studies at the School.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7112
email: pippa.skotnes@uct.ac.za
website: Archive and Curatorship



  Johann van der Schijff

Johann van der Schijff is a senior lecturer in new media. He holds a Master of Fine Art (new media) (1997) Frank Mohr Instituut, Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands; a Master of Fine Art (sculpture) (1994), University of Cape Town; and a Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Pretoria (1990). His sculptural/new media works have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Johann's research interests are in the areas of computer-aided design and manufacturing techniques and the design of interactive systems. Growing up in South Africa and living in a violent country and continent, questions of power relations in society underlie much of his work, forcing the viewer into a position of choice in their engagement with his artworks.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7116
email: johann.vanderschijff@uct.ac.za
website: johannvds.com


  Gavin Younge

Gavin Younge is a professor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and works internationally as a sculptor, author, film-maker and curator. His most recent exhibitions include participation in the Champs de la Sculpture exhibition in Paris, and two solo exhibitions in France: Gilets du Sauvetage in Nimes and Collection Prive in Paris. Formerly Director of, the Michaelis School of Fine Art, he has served as an artistic advisor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His first film, Abaphuciwe/The Dispossessed, achieved a cinematic release in the UK and the USA and was banned in South Africa. His video installation entitled Forces Favourites is now part of the Sanlam Permanent Collection and is featured on the New York-based Legacy Project. For more information visit www.gavinyounge.com

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7118
email: gavin.younge@uct.ac.za



  Carine Zaayman

Carine Zaayman is a lecturer in new media at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. She has a particular interest in Film theory, psychoanalysis and notions of subjectivity in art. After graduating in Fine Art from the University of Pretoria, she completed her MA in History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her digital art has been exhibited widely, and she has contributed to a number of journals and catalogues.

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tel: +27 (0)21 480-7161
email: carine.zaayman@uct.ac.za



Malcolm Payne
  Malcolm Payne

Malcolm Payne joined the staff of the Michaelis School of Art in 1989. He lectured in Painting and Videography. He took early retirement in 2009 and left the school as an Emeritus Professor of the University. He completed undergraduate studies for the National Teachers Diploma in Fine Art at the Pretoria College for Advanced Technical Education, now the Tshwane University of Technology. He completed postgraduate studies at the St. Martins School of Art in London (Certificate of Advanced Studies) and MFA with distinction at the University of Cape Town. He works in painting, printmaking, sculpture and video.



Bruce Arnott
  Bruce Arnott

Bruce Arnott was a Professor in the Department of Fine Art, where he taught sculpture. He is a Life Fellow of the University of Cape Town. He holds BA Fine Art and MA Fine Art degrees from the University of Cape Town. Formerly, he was Assistant Director at the South African National Gallery, and responsible for sculpture and prints & drawings. He is a past Director of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and former convener of Postgraduate Studies. Bruce Arnott is also a professional sculptor who works mainly in bronze. He is represented in public collections in South Africa, and has been awarded commissions in major centers in the country. He has exhibited widely; and has published books and many articles in his field.



 

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