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Fine Arts

The Department of Fine Arts is vibrantly interdisciplinary, combining technical training in artistic production with high levels of conceptual and creative thinking.

The Fine Arts department, located in the heart of Braamfontein in Johannesburg is part of a dynamic cultural and artistic centre within the WITS School of Arts. We combine a rigorous studio-based programme with the pursuit of academic excellence, giving students a range of options to explore and critically play with.

As we believe that Fine Arts education extends beyond the academy, we encourage our students to participate in this wider art arena. This coupled with the combination of conceptually and technically challenging studio practice and rigorous academic curricula, equips our graduates with the skills to excel in many different fields.

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WAM exhibition: 'working title' Fouad Asfour-Tuesday 30 July 2024

The installation working title invites visitors to experience writing processes from unexpected perspectives. It is the final instalment of Asfour’s practice-based 'creative arts' PhD research project “Un-drawing the Line through Spectrography.

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'Imperfect Futures' Residency

Zen Marie, and the collective 'Imperfect Futures' have been awarded a research residency at the Spree Park Residency in Berlin.

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Wits Fine Arts NEWWORK23 Class Prize winner Ntsako Nkuna on left and merit awards to Noa Hall in middle and Rethabile Padi

Graduate exhibition showcases fine artists

NEWWORK23 is an exhibition of work by young artists in fulfilment of a Wits BA Fine Arts degree.

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What are we doing in Fine Arts? The Fine Arts department is committed to shaping an open, collectively productive environment for artistic research, study and work, which recognises that developing a creative voice and language is a process- a constant search requiring learning and unlearning, testing, failing and succeeding.
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Wits Young Artist Award Winner

Rumbo Mercy took first place with her multimedia installation.

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2023 Wits Young Artist Award (WYAA) Winners

The Wits Young Artist Award (WYAA) is supported by The Point of Order and the Wits School of Arts as a platform for both acknowledging and giving exposure to new (earliest 2022) and critical work by senior students of the Wits Fine Art Department. The 2023 WYAA chief selector was Dr Same Mdluli, the director of the Standard Bank Art Gallery.

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