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Svea Josephy
Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography)
tel: +27 (0)21 480-7146
email: svea.josephy@uct.ac.za



  Educational Qualifications
  •  Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1993).
  •  Masters of Arts in Fine Arts, University of Stellenbosch, awarded with distinction (2001)
  •  Post Graduate Certificate in Business Studies, University of Wales (2002).


  Exhibitions
  •  2006. Second to None. Curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Virginia McKenny. IZIKO
  •  South African National Gallery. June-September 2006.
  •  2006. 20 Artists. Curated by Norman O’ Flynn and Suzette Bell Roberts. Bell Roberts Gallery. Jan-Feb, 2006.
  •  2005. Sweet Nothings. Curated by Sanell Aggenbach. Bell Roberts Gallery. Feb-Mar, 2005.
  •  2005. UnExposed. Curated by Stephen Inggs. Michaelis Galley.
  •  2004. Curiosity CLXXV. Curated by Pippa Skotnes, Gwen van Embden and Fritha Langerman. Hiddingh Hall, University of Cape Town, Nov 2004-Mar 2005.
  •  2004. Decade of Democracy. Curated by Emma Bedford. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Feb – Sep, 2004.
  •  2004. Forty Years: Artists and Designers from the University of Stellenbosch. Curated by Victor Honey. Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, May-Aug, 2004.
  •  2003-04. Staff and Student exhibition. Cape Town School of Photography, Cape Town, Dec-Jan 2004.
  •  2003. Roots. Curated by Pat Khosa. Durban Art Gallery, Durban, Sep- Oct 2003.
  •  2003. The Brett Kebble Art Awards. Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town, Oct 2003.
  •  2003. Picnic. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht. Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, Nov 2003.
  •  2002 Framing Documentary (Cape Town Month of Photography), A.V.A., Cape Town.
  •  2002The Position of South African Photography - Today, OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  •  2001 Framing Documentary, University of Stellenbosch.
  •  2000 Emotions and Relations, Sandton Gallery, Johannesburg and Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunsfees, Oudtshoorn.
  •  2000 Emergence, Brendan, Bell and Roberts, Cape Town
  •  2000 ABSA Awards, S.A.A.A, Bellville and Johannesburg.
  •  1999 Shuttle 99, N.S.A., Durban; Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg; The Granaries, Cape Town and The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
  •  1999 ABSA Awards, S.A.A.A, Bellville.
  •  1999 Cache (100XC Cape Town Month of Photography), The Castle, Cape Town.
  •  1999 One City, Many Cultures, The Natural History Museum, Cape Town.
  •  1998 Photosynthesis, South African National Gallery National exhibition, Grahamstown, Johannesburg, Cape Town.
  •  1998 Unplugged III, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg.
  •  1998 Volkskas Atelier Exhibition, S.A.A.A., Bellville and Pietersburg.
  •  1998 Stellenbosch Staff Group Show, A.V.A., Cape Town.
  •  1997 Bad Books, S.A.A.A., Bellville, Western Cape.
  •  1997 Women Artists of the Western Cape, Sasol Museum, Stellenbosch, Western Cape.
  •  1997 Volkskas Atelier Exhibition, S.A.A.A., Belville, Western Cape.
  •  1996 Contemporary South African Art, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
  •  1996 Volkskas Atelier Exhibition, S.A.A.A., Bellville
  •  1995 People’s Portraits, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.


  Collections

South African National Gallery.



  Publications, Conferences, Workshops
  •  2006. Josephy, S. 20 Artists / 06 [Artists Book] Edited by Norman O’ Flynn and Suzette Bell Roberts. Cape Town: Bell Roberts.
  •  2005. Josephy, S. ‘Departures and Arrivals’ in Art South Africa, Vol. 3 Issue 3 Autumn 2005. p 24-27.
  •  2005. Josephy, S. ‘Departures: New Directions in South African Documentary Photography’ in Grundlingh, G. (ed)The Cape Town Month of Photography 2005. Bell-Roberts: Cape Town. 6-13. ISBN-0-620-33778-8.
  •  2004. Josephy, S. ‘Jane Alexander’ in New Identities Hatjie Cantz (ed). Bochum: Museum Bochum 156-157. ISBN 3-7757-1489-8
  •  2003. Josephy, S. Framing Documentary’. In Artworks in Progress: Journal of the Staff of the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 2003. Vol. 7, pp28-34. ISSN 1729-7923
  •  2004. Josephy, S. Jean Brundrit (Artthrob Artbio). March 2004. Artthob No. 79. http://www.artthrob.co.za/04mar/artbio.html
  •  Josephy, Svea, Andrew Lamprecht, Lynne Lomofsky and Brendon Bell-Roberts. 2004. Chicken [Photograph/ Concept / Body Art]. Itch. Vol. 1, No. 1 [Autumn 2004] ISBN 0 620 31894 5
  •  2002. Josephy, S. 'Post Apartheid Photography’. In Geoff Grundlingh (ed) (2002) The Cape Town Month of Photography. Cape Town: The South African Centre for Photography, pp 5-17.
  •  Catalogue essay ‘Post-Apartheid South African Photography’ in Grundlingh, G (ed) (2002) The Cape Town Month of Photography 2002. The South African Centre for Photography: Cape Town.
  •  Participated in Shuttle 99 (X-Scape) workshops and exhibitions run as part of a cultural exchange programme instituted by the Nordic Council of Ministers (1999). Delivered paper at The Artists Voice conference in at the Internationale Gesallshaft der Bildenden Künste, Berlin, Germany (2001) as part of the United Nations International Year ‘Dialogue between Cultures’.
Conference Abstracts:
Josephy, S. 2004. ‘Eroding truth and Reality in Post Apartheid South African Photography’ at the ACASA 13th Triennial Symposium on African Art conference. This conference is entitled ‘African Art: Roots and Routes’ and took place in at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) from March 31-April 3, 2004.

Josephy, S. 2003. ‘Shifting Notions of Truth and Reality in Post Apartheid South African Photography’, ”Visual Studies in Contemporary South Africa: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the South African Association of Art Historians.

Josephy, S. 2001. ‘Deconstructing Documentary’. The Artists Voice Symposium: Internationale Gesellschaft Der Bilden, Künste Akadamie as part of the United Nations International Year of ‘Dialogue between Cultures’, Berlin, October 11-13, 2001.



  Research Interests

These 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.



  Teaching: Workshops and outreach

Svea Josephy has strong interests in photography and arts education and held the portfolio of Education Officer (Art Gallery and Community Culture) at Southampton City Art Gallery before joining UCT. She has taught Photography, Discourse of Art and History of Art at the University of Stellenbosch, the University of Cape Town and Peninsula Technicon. She has co-ordinated various camera and pinhole photography workshops for children, adolescents, adults and teachers for the South African Centre for Photography at the University of Cape Town. These include camera workshops for eye Africa, workshops for children at the MTN Science Centre’s Canon Camera Obscura, and workshops in conjunction with the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) as part of the Year of Science and Technology (YEAST). Svea has also been involved with workshops for school children as part of the South African Centre for Photography’s (f non-stop) outreach programme. She was also involved in outreach programmes by the University of Stellenbosch in collaboration with NGOs, such as the Women on Farms Project workshops and children’s pinhole photography workshops. She has served on the Steering Committee, Education Committee and Month of Photography Committee for the South African Centre for Photography at the University of Cape Town.

 

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