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Michelle
Stewart
MICHELLE STEWART
ARTIST/ ANIMATOR
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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