Thuthuka
Jewellery Awards Exhibition:
2
March – 31 March.
FADA
Jewellery Sale and Auction 2016.
8
April – 12 April.
I-WEAR
Inspirational Sun and Optical Masks.
18
– 23 April
FADA Alumni
Exhibition 2016.
10
May – 8 June
VIAD
Curated Exhibition. The Front Room, in the African Diaspora & 10
Little N*****Boys.
28
July – 19 August.
JJC Schools
Award Exhibition 2016.
15
September – 30 September (provisional dates)
VIAD
curated Exhibition. Priya Ramrakha (provisional Title)
6
October – 19 October
Visual Art
B Tech Exhibition.
1
– 18 November (provisional dates).
Dean’s
Award Exhibition 2016.
24
November – 10 February 2017 (provisional dates).
Thuthuka Jewellery Awards Exhibition 2016.
2 -31 March
The thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme offers an independent, extra-curricular mentorship programme and
competition to jewellery design students from community schools and
universities across the country. The focus is on creativity and innovation in
design and skills development. Every year since 2008, students have been given
a design brief and mentored one-on-one over three months from conception,
through design to production. The process culminates in a competition, a gala
evening and award ceremony, and a public exhibition of the best work at the
FADA Gallery.
8
April – 12 April. (Dates to be confirmed)
Future
Famous: Retail Jewellery auction and exhibition (working title)
‘Future
Famous’ is a retail
auction and exhibition hosted by the UJ Jewellery Design and Manufacture
Department. The exhibition showcases selected student pieces, collected over
the past 10 years. The works for sale include a wide range of innovative award
winning platinum and silver high end and contemporary jewellery pieces. The
main aim of this initiative is to market the excellent design talent harnessed
in the jewellery department, as well as to raise funds to support its continual
expansion.
18
– 23 April (dates to be confirmed)
I-WEAR
Inspirational Sun and Optical Masks.
Industrial Design in collaboration with FADA
Gallery presents a viewer interactive eyewear exhibition inspired by the
avant-garde sun and optical masks of the Berlin based company Kuboraum
10 May – 8 June (dates to be confirmed)
FADA Alumni Exhibition 2016.
FADA
nominated Phillip van der Merwe and Greg
Gamble (TONIC) for the prestigious 2016
FADA Alumni Exhibition. They are invited to exhibit iconic examples of
their design work, showcasing a cross-section of creative expression that
exemplifies their conceptual approach, style and fine craftsmanship in interior
architecture.
TONIC - http://tonicdesign.co.za
The
exhibition is seen as a prestigious bi-annual, curated exhibition, which
honours the contribution and success of FADA (TWR and UJ) alumni in their
respective professions. It is also envisaged that the exhibition will help
position contemporary art and design practice as a threshold of excellence and
innovation, in order that our current cohort of students would strive towards
such standards and in so doing, expand their boundaries of knowledge.
Honoured
Alumni Since 2008.
28 July – 19 August.
The Front Room
in
the African Diaspora.
VIAD is proud to announce the hosting of an exhibition
and research-driven project by Dr Michael McMillan at FADA Gallery. The
presentation is premised on his critically acclaimed The West Indian Front
Room (2005) showcased at the Geffrye Museum, London Borough of Hackney,
England.
Stemming from socio-economic and political significances
of Front Rooms amongst West Indian communities in England, the exhibition
presented in FADA Gallery emerges from collaborations
with Johannesburg-based communities, arts practitioners and organisations,
through extensive ethnographic research reflecting the material culture of
their own living/front rooms. The project elaborates on an understanding of how
cultural practices of the African diaspora are enacted in the material environs
of the front room, through often entangled intersections of similar and dissimilar
contexts, Diasporic narratives and expressions of belonging. How, in the
postcolonial and postapartheid era, can shifts in the material culture of the
living/front room reflect wider changes in South African society?
10 Little N***** Boys
Alongside
the presentation of VIAD Research Associate Dr Michael MacMillan’s research
driven The Front Room exhibition, Dr Christine Checinska – also an
affiliate of VIAD, will showcase an installation titled, 10 Little N***** Boys.
Setting fashion and dress into the
wider context of material culture, Dr Checinska’s installation takes as its
departure point an original work first presented in the James Hockey Gallery,
Farnham, England. Echoing the concerns of the West Indian Front Room, by
Dr McMillan, the installation examines the place of dress as a way of tracing
the journey from colonisation to post-coloniality, asking how does the
presentation of selfmark a shift in one’s position in society?
15
September – 30 September.
JJC
Schools Award Exhibition 2016.
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| Elá Aguiar, Narcissus. Installation. Reddam House Bedfordview. First prize winner 2015. |
FADA
Gallery in association with the Johannesburg Junior Council (JJC)
presents the 2016 JJC Schools’ Art and Design Awards Exhibition. Schools in the
Gauteng province are requested to submit work produced by grade 11 and 12
learners. A diverse range of art and design work is annually selected for the
awards exhibition that includes artists’ books, paper sculpture installations
and digital media.
6
October – 19 October
Priya Ramrakha (Provisional Title)
Curated
by Dr. Erin Haney & Shravan Vidvarthi, in collaboration with the Visual
Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD)
The photographic exhibition explores
the archives of pioneering Kenyan photojournalist Priya Ramrakha (1935 – 1968)
as a seminal and under acknowledged documentation of African Independence and
post-Independence movements in the fifties and sixties. From Kenya's grassroots
struggles with Tom Mboya and Kenyatta, to the consequences of the Biafra, Priya Ramrakha captures, without
sentimentality, a complex intertwining of African, Indian, South African and
African American image histories and stories.
1 –
18 November
Visual
Arts B Tech Exhibitions.
FADA
Visual Art B Tech students showcase their work in the FADA Gallery. This year
the department will consolidate the creative output of all the final year
students in one integrated exhibition.
24
November – 10 February 2017 (provisional dates)
Dean’s Award Exhibition 2016.
This
prestigious awards exhibition is an annual event and features the best body of work
produced by FADA graduates during the academic year. Instituted for the first
time in 2015, seven students will be selected based on their creative,
innovative and masterfully crafted art, design and architecture based projects.
Image above - Last year's winner, Daniel Carstens.
