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Ms. Shonisani Netshia

Lecturer
Name: Shonisani Netshia
Location: 125, FADA Building Bunting Road Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27(0)11 559 1388

Email:听shonin@uj.ac.za

About Ms. Shonisani Netshia

About Shonisani Netshia

鈥嬧�媃ear Leader: 1st Year

Module Leader: Painting

Lectures in:

Painting I, II & III

Studio Practice III & IV

Postgraduate Studies鈥嬧��

Qualifications:听NDip (Fine Art) (UJ), Btech (Fine Art) (UJ), Mtech (Fine Art) (UJ),

Short bio: Shonisani Netshia lectures in painting at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. In most of her works she uses Isishweshwe fabric, and crocheted doilies as a visual references in the production of large to small scale paintings. In these, she explores how, through painterly alteration and transformation, shifts can occur in the meanings of patterns derived from these culturally-loaded sources. In her recent works she negotiates her role as a homemaker, nurturer, working mom, and wife by drawing from a selection of 鈥榗ulturally-loaded鈥� objects from her mother鈥檚 home. These objects symbolize and carry with them a sense of nostalgia from a specific era in her mother鈥檚 life, and hers. In 2018 she co-curated the Christo Coetzee exhibition titled: The safest Place is the Knife鈥檚 Edge with Wilhelm van Rensburg at the Standard Bank Gallery. She took part in a residency at Projekthof Karnitz听in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany in 2021 with a group of nine artists from Africa, Latin America and Europe who came together as part of the听documenta fifteen听residency. The culmination of the body of work produced titled Water Bodies 鈥� Narratives of the Anthropocene was exhibited in Berlin at MaHalla. She is currently a PhD candidate at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. Her PhD research explores the visual manifestation of black respectability within the home as a domestic environment, through the use of objects such as ornaments, tea sets, and crocheted doilies in particular.

Recent Publications:

  • 2018: SOTL in the South: Co-authored article with K. Berman. Title: Enlivening pedagogical methods in the classroom through visual arts. Vol 4. Issue 1. pp.4-20.
  • 2017: Image & Text: Special Edition: 鈥淭he same but not quite鈥�: Respectability, creative agencies and self-expression in black middle-class Soweto homes

听Recent Conference Papers:

  • 鈥淭he broom as a signifier of femininity and domesticity in South African homes, traditional African wedding ceremonies, and marriage: Unpacked through Usha Seejarim鈥檚 Transgressing Power鈥�. Hitting Home: Representations of the Domestic Milieu in Feminist Art conference. 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg 14-17 November 2022.
  • 鈥淢aterial Narratives through objects of Forgotten Utility鈥�. The Materiality of Everyday Life in Africa: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective (Part V). 6th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference (June 21-25. Virtual. Lagos/West-Central Africa Time).
  • Material Narratives in the works of Igshaan Adams and Anthony Bumhira. Material Narratives Representations of Public and Private Histories in Cloth. NRF Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the 欧美福利100000 of Conference.
  • 鈥淭he same but not quite鈥�: Respectability, creative agencies and self-expression in black middle-class Soweto homes. ASAUK, Birmingham.
  • Unpacking notions of African 鈥榓uthenticity鈥� in parodies of Shweshwe and Batik fabrics. SAVAH, Stellenbosch.
  • International Conference on SOTL in the South. Title: Enlivening pedagogical methods in the classroom through visual arts.
  • 31st Annual SAVAH conference: Rethinking Art History and Visual Culture in a contemporary context. Co-presented with Prof Kim Berman. Title: Animating citizenship in the classroom.
  • Intimate Archives// Autobiographical Acts. Personal surfacing鈥檚 as expressed through material culture programme. Title: From My Mother鈥檚 Closet. 4-5 August 2016.

Selected Recent Group Exhibitions & Curatorial Projects

  • Water Bodies 鈥� Narratives of the Anthropocene Group Show. MaHalla Berlin, 19-21 August 2022.
  • Co-Curator of The Safest Place is the Knife鈥檚 Edge: Christo Coetzee (1929-2000). Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
  • Ceramic plate exhibition curated by Gordon Froud. Arts Association Pretoria
  • I Objekt: curated by Gordon Froud, Art it is Gallery. Johannesburg
  • Performing Wo/Man group show, curated by Derek Zietsman, NWU Gallery, North West
  • Assistant curator of Special South African works at Beijing Biennale