February 1-15.
2017 Dean’s Award Exhibition.
Extended for first-time registering students - until 15 February.
Extended for first-time registering students - until 15 February.
15 March – 30 March
South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards
Exhibition &
2017/18 Thuthuka Jewellery Awards Exhibition
13 April – 31 May.
Black Chronicles IV, an exhibition curated by Renée Mussai (Senior Curator and Head of
Archive & Research at Autograph ABP)
12 July – 17 August (provisional dates)
2018 FADA Alumni Exhibition honouring Dr
Carol Hofmeyer, founder and director of the Keiskamma art project Trust
18 September – 28 September (provisional
dates)
2018 JJC Schools Art and Design Awards
1 October – 2 November
Peter Magubane, A Photographic Review.
5 - 23
November (provisional dates)
Visual Arts B Tech exhibitions.
29 November - 6 December (provisional dates)
2018 Dean’s Award Exhibition.
2017 Dean’s Award Exhibition
The work on this
exhibition is of finalists nominated for the 2017 Dean’s Award Exhibition. Each
department selected a student, mainly Honours and a few undergraduate candidates,
who demonstrated innovation and creativity in their body of work on display. The
exhibition showcases work from the following disciplines; Interior Design,
Architecture, Industrial Design, Visual Arts, Multi Media, Jewellery Design and
Manufacture and Design Communication (Graphic Design). This year’s winner is Pia
Findlay, a BA Honours (Industrial Design) graduate.
15 March – 30 March
FADA Gallery hosts the following jewellery
awards exhibitions;
South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition
&
South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition
&
South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition.
CREATIVE Feel in partnership with FADA Gallery will host the inaugural South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition. The awards exhibition aims to bring together established jewellers, including young and aspiring artists, in the creation of one-of-a-kind expressive or installation pieces. There are no limitations as artists are called upon to visualize and realise their ideas. The winner and runner-up of the competition will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on 15 March 2018 after which the South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition will open at the FADA Gallery on the Bunting Road Campus of the University of Johannesburg.
2017/8 Thuthuka Jewellery Award’s Exhibition.
The Thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme is proud to present an exhibition of jewellery designed by students from the community schools and universities across the country. This annual exhibition celebrates an extraordinary mentorship programme that focusses on design and manufacturing skills development. The competition enables each student's design ability; to explore their creativity using silver and other precious metals.
The Thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme is proud to present an exhibition of jewellery designed by students from the community schools and universities across the country. This annual exhibition celebrates an extraordinary mentorship programme that focusses on design and manufacturing skills development. The competition enables each student's design ability; to explore their creativity using silver and other precious metals.
The Thuthuka Jewellery
Awards theme for 2017/18 was interesting and personal.
The theme “Origins”, referred
the students to explore their own cultural roots, traditions and experiences.
This has resulted in unique
designs and manufacturing techniques. The design diversity and beauty of the
jewellery and tableware created will make for an interesting and stimulating
exhibition this year.
13 April – 31 May
Black Chronicles IV
Black Chronicles IV, an
exhibition curated by Renée Mussai (Senior Curator and Head of Archive &
Research at Autograph ABP) at the FADA Gallery. This VIAD facilitated exhibition centres on the visual presence of black
figures in Victorian Britain through the prism of studio photography, the
exhibition explores politics of subjectivity, representation and agency, and
continues Autograph ABP’s critical mission of annotating the cultural histories
of photography by addressing its ‘missing chapters’, in tandem with VIAD’s
focus on historical redress within photographic archives and the role of
positionalities in their production and reception. Black Chronicles IV will
also feature the sound-image installation The African Choir 1891 Re-Imagined
(songs composed by Phillip Miller & Thuthuka Sibisi) and a special display
of The Paris Albums 1900, with more than 200 photographic reproductions from
W.E.B. Du Bois’s groundbreaking exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Using the exhibition and
photographic portraiture as a departure point, a VIAD organised conference will
build upon a critical rethinking of curatorial practice, as traditionally bound
to a colonial logic of collection, arrangement, ‘safe-keeping’ and display.
University Winter Recess –
13 June - 8 July. Gallery closed for
renovations.
12 July – 17 August (provisional dates)
2018 FADA Alumni Exhibition
This year’s Alumni Exhibition honours Dr
Carol Hofmeyr, the founder of the
Keiskamma Art Project Trust. The Trust is a community
organisation, centred in Hamburg, a rural area in the Eastern Cape, which works
to foster hope and offer support for the most vulnerable. The Trust strives to
address the challenges of widespread poverty and disease through holistic and
creative programmes and partnerships.
The Keiskama Trust began as the Keiskama Art Project, created by doctor and artist, Carol Hofmeyr, in response to the extreme poverty and high percentage of HIV/AIDS affected families in the area. The Keiskamma Art Project later became the Keiskamma Trust inclusive of an Art, Health and Education Programme. In 2006 Helen Vosloo, one of the country’s foremost classical musicians, founded the Keiskamma Music Academy as the fourth Trust programme.
The Keiskama Trust began as the Keiskama Art Project, created by doctor and artist, Carol Hofmeyr, in response to the extreme poverty and high percentage of HIV/AIDS affected families in the area. The Keiskamma Art Project later became the Keiskamma Trust inclusive of an Art, Health and Education Programme. In 2006 Helen Vosloo, one of the country’s foremost classical musicians, founded the Keiskamma Music Academy as the fourth Trust programme.
18 September – 29 September (provisional
dates)
2018m JJC Schools Art and Design Awards
The awards
exhibition, now in its 10th year, is hosted annually by the FADA
Gallery. Working in association with Johannesburg Junior Council, the aim of
the exhibition is to promote This year’s competition will be launched at FADA
in April – further details to be posted in due course. Prizes are sponsored by Herbert
Evans.
1 October – 2 November (provisional dates)
Peter Magubane
A Photographic Review. Presented by
the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture,
University of Johannesburg
Bringing together a unique selection of images by iconic South African
photographer Dr Peter Magubane, this prestigious exhibition will afford viewers
an opportunity to imaginatively revisit the everyday experiences and aspirant
struggles of black South Africans living (and dying) under apartheid. Developed
in conversation with Dr Magubane, and marking the centenary celebration of
former President Nelson Mandela’s birth, the exhibition programme will include
workshops, conversations, walkabouts and screenings, encouraging students and
the public to engage critically with the images, as well as the intersecting
histories they represent. The exhibition will run from the X October to X
November 2018 at the FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg, Bunting Road
Campus.
3-20 November (provisional dates)
Visual Arts B Tech exhibitions.
Two consecutive exhibitions featuring the
work of final year Visual Art Students.
4 -15 December
2018 Dean’s Award Exhibition. (provisional
dates)
The work on this
exhibition is of finalists nominated for the 2018 Dean’s Award Exhibition. Each
department will select a student, mainly B Tech and Honours candidates, who
demonstrated innovation and creativity. The exhibition comprises bodies of
work from the following disciplines; Interior Design, Architecture, Industrial
Design, Visual Arts, Multi Media, Jewellery Design and Manufacture and Design
Communication (Graphic Design).
