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RESUME

CURRICULUM VITEA 

 

Michelle Stewart  

stewartm2@ukzn.ac.za  

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EDUCATION 

 

Diploma of Fine Art Natal Technikon (DUT), 1990 

BAFA, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 1992  

HDE, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 1993  

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg    MAFA, 1996   

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg   PHD, 2017   

 

AWARDS  

 

 Competitive Grant, 2006    

 Merit Award for teaching, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2009    

 Best Teaching Portfolio Award, School of Arts, University of KwaZulu- Natal, 2018    

 Best Animation Award, “Euro-Kino” International Film Festival, Prague, 2017    

 Best Creative Contribution Award, School of Arts, University of   KwaZulu-Natal, 2018    

 Leap Award, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2010    

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE    

 

The Center for Visual Arts, School of Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Lecturer– Visual Arts, 2006-2011    

The Discipline of Digital Arts, School of Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Lecturer – Digital Arts, 2012-present, Academic coordinator – Digital Arts, 2013-present    

        

PUBLICATIONS, SEMINARS AND PAPERS    

     

2017, Stewart M, An animated film with an accompanying analysis of its relationship to the theory and practice of art and animation     

2018, Stewart M. Experimental Animation, Hybridisation and New Media Art, ISEA2018  

2019, The “Big Man” as Fictional Archetype in the Work of Robert Hodgins and William, Kentridge, De arte, Vol 53 

2015, Stewart M. The Iconography of Power, SAVAH conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal     

2017, Stewart M. Traditional animation processes in the digital era, International Film Festival, Industry program, Durban     

2019, Stewart M. The use of metamorphosis in the experimental film: Big Man and the multimedia installation: Big Man, APES19, Texas     

2020, Stewart M. Creative practice and research: An artist-scholar perspective. ARA, (Artistic Research in Africa Conference), the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.   

2021, Stewart, M. The problematic of creative practice and research within tertiary education in South Africa. Arts Education policy Review, Michigan 

2022, Stewart, M. Ghostly Imprints: Revisiting the Death Mask in Digital Clay, ARA, (Artistic Research in Africa Conference), the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 

2022, Book Chapter: " 'Do You Know Me? (Painterly Animated Composites)': Expanded Animation, Metamporphosis and Reflections on Mortality at the Time of COVID19" for Animation and Public Engagement Before and at the Time of COVID19 Editor(s) name(s): Jorgelina Orfila and Francisco Ortega Grimaldo (Accepted for publication) 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, FILM FESTIVALS 

 

1996, Masters Exhibition, The Bartel Arts Trust Centre, Durban   

1999, “Resignation” Mixed Media Drawing, “The Right to Celebrate”: 58th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Durban Art Gallery     

2004, Digital projections for Grieg Coetzee’s award-winning play, “Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny,”    

Grahamstown Arts Festival, South Africa; Edinburgh Festival, UK       

2004, Digital Animation “Baboon,” ‘Natal Biennial Exhibition,’ at the Tatham Art Gallery, in  

Pietermaritzburg    

2006, “Fool King’s Crown” (animation) and 15 large scale digital drawings ‘Five Artists, Five Directions, at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban.     

2007, “Big Man” 1-8 (series of 8 artworks) (digital mixed media) Carnegie Art Gallery, New Castle.    

2008, Digital drawings, 15 Graduates Exhibition, Jack Heath Art Gallery     

2009/10, “The aftermath of an assassination” (digital painting), “Contemporary reflections” Exhibition at the Tatham Art Gallery, South Africa; “CVA Alumni Exhibition,” St Paul’s Boys’ School, London. 

2010, Funeral Procession (digital painting), “Jabulisa: The Art of KwaZulu-Natal,” Tatham Art Gallery,   

Pietermaritzburg.     

2015, State portraits (paint-on-glass stills), Conference Exhibition: Art and Power, Jack Heath Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.   

2015, Enter Big Man 1, Enter Big Man 2 (pen and ink paper cut outs, and digital overlays), Images in Print Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban      

2017-19, National and International Screenings and Nominations of Film, “Big Man”: Film Festival Kalmthout, Belgium; International Film Festival, Beveren, Belgium; Manifesto Film Festival, Amsterdam; Euro-Kino Festival, Prague; Durban International Film Festival, South Africa; APES19, The Animation and Social Engagement Symposium, Texas 

2018, Animated installation “Big Man 2,” 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA2018  

2022, Gestures through time (digital animation), Magic Visions: An Online Exhibition by, The Centre for Visual Art, University of KwaZulu-Natal 

2022, Rickshaw series (digital sculpture), Interchange Artist’s residency exhibition, Jack heath Art Gallery. 

 

FILMOGRAPGHY 

2006, Fool King’s Crown (hand drawn digital animation)

2016, Big Man (Hybrid traditional and digital animation) 

2018, Big Man 2 (animation/ video installation) 

2022, Gestures through time (digital animation) 

2022, Do you know me? (Oil pant-on-glass animation) 

 

RESEARCH GRANTS, DONATIONS AND MOU’S   

 

2018, Discovering Identity, Program: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mellon foundation – Supra-institutional project on the decolonial turn (unsettling paradigms) 

2020, Visiting Artist at American University in Cairo, Husslab Teaching Fund    

2019, Mellon 30th Anniversary Artists Residencies Fellowship Program, University of KwaZulu-Natal     

2020 and 2022, Donation, student support COVID16, 1050 GBP per year (R410 000) 

 

 ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND PANELS 

 

2016 – Present, Member of the Higher Degrees and Research Committee, School of Arts, UKZN    

2017 – Presen, Member of the Teaching and Learning Committee, UKZN    

2011-Present, Member of the School of Arts Board, School of Arts, College of Humanities, UKZN    

2017-Present, Member of the Faculty Board, The Animation School, Cape Town    

2021 – Panel Member for Creative Contributions Review, School of Arts WITS 

 

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