About

As an artist, I firmly believe in art’s ability to provoke
social change.

Exhibitions  (exhibiting under the artist name/persona, swany)

  • Members Exhibitions (2008-2010) at KZNSA Gallery
  • Gaze (2012) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • More Than Words (2013) at the Collective
  • Proof of Life (2013) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Visualizing the Creative Process – mappings of the academic journey of an art student (2014) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • d’Urban d’Art Exchange Group Exhibition (2014) (2nd prize jury selection) at artSPACEdurban Gallery
  • looking FOR ward: our lives in 2034 Group Exhibition (2014) at the Durban Art Gallery
  • souty (2014) part of G1K1 Group Exhibition at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Anima (2015) joint exhibition Anima-Animus with Bernice Stott at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Threaded Drawings Group Exhibition (2015) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • d’Urban d’Art Exchange Group Exhibition (2015) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Prick! Subverting the Stitch(2015) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Response: UNISA Staff Exhibition 2015 (2015) at UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria
  • Pulp Fiction Group Exhibition (2015) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Portraits and Selfies Group Exhibition (2015) at the White River Gallery, White River, Mpumalanga
  • First Glimpse (2015) at the Breathing Space Gallery, Durban
  • 40RTY (2016) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Blou Steen/Blue Stone (2018) at UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria

Curating

  • G1K1 Group Exhibition (2014) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Pulp Fiction (2015) at artSPACE durban Gallery
  • Beauty & Its Beasts: Has the female stereotype changed? (2017) at the Durban Art Gallery

Interviews

  • SABC TV: Morning Live (31 May 2015)
  • SABC Radio SA FM: Friday Edition Khanyi Magubane (05 June 2015)

Lectures

  • Opening speaker for UNISA 3rd Year Students Exhibition 2014 (November) at

artSPACE durban Gallery

  • Guest speaker at Visual Arts KZN Regional Conference for the Independent

          Education Board (14 February 2015) St. Anne’s High School: Turning the gaze

          inward: Deconstructing Performance Art

  • Guest speaker at Vega School of Brand Leadership (2015-2016): The Body (un)

          Comfortable.

Exhibitions

Artists need to exhibit, even if only to escape their studios and to venture outside their comfort zones.

Performances

Within the institution of art, self-aware artists may present visual representations of resistance, performance being the most powerful medium for this purpose.

Academics

Research & praxis

  • University of South Africa (2015-2018) – Masters in Visual Arts (with Distinction)
  • Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute/UNISA (2017-2018) – Afrikan  Feminist and Gender Studies Diploma (with Distinction)
  • University of South Africa  (2010-2014) – Visual Arts Degree, Honours level (BVA)

Other skills acquisitions

  • DMI College of Education (GRAFICA): Mumbai, India – Advanced Screenprinting Diploma (2017)
  • Adobe Keyline South Africa – Illustrator Diploma (2016)
  • Adobe Keyline South Africa – Photoshop Diploma (2014)
  • Dance Direction International South Africa – Hip Hop Dance levels 1 & 2 AIDT (2007)
  • PC Training College South Africa – A+ & MCSE Microsoft Diploma (2000)
  • Pretoria Technikon South Africa – Mapping, forecasting and planning Diploma (1998)

Experience

  • Mentor lecturer & facilitator – Department of Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology, University of South Africa (2014-2019)
  • Fashion designer & manager – Rightback Embroidery cc (2003-2019)
  • Interior designer – Practical Magic (2000-2003)

Masters Dissertation Link

Repositioning the problematic gender formation of a
generation of white South African men through performance art:
http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/25347/dissertation_swanepoel_ap.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Contact

info@swanyart.com

(+27) 072 184 8142