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11 June 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Photo Courtesy of artists and the Johannes Stegmann Gallery.
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Liminality is an exhibition of first-, second- and third-year student’s work in the
Department of Fine Arts at the University of the Free State (UFS). The works are from 2019 and 2020. Created during the hard lockdown of 2020, the artworks provide a glimpse of what students had to deal with and overcome during these times.
In a proposal for the exhibition, Angela de Jesus, Curator of the UFS Art Galleries, wrote: “The subtitle of the exhibition is ‘threshold, transition, transformation’ and it refers to the creative processes that students engaged with
in these adverse circumstances resulting in a wide array of artworks in both traditional and adapted mediums.”
The exhibition speaks to our shared experiences of insecurity, fragility, and discord, and to the resourcefulness and immutability of creative expression.
The virtual exhibition runs until 2 July 2021.
The exhibition is also currently available for viewing at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Sasol Library, UFS Bloemfontein Campus. Monday - Friday 09:00 - 16:00.
MEGAN JOHNS, Battleground, Tobacco, charcoal dust, plaster of paris and resin, 93.5 x 50 x 7.5 cm
JACOBETH SELINGA, Linda, Installation: Found bed, wool and thread, 257 x 196 x 91 cm
POLOKO MOHANOE, Prayer for rain, Gouache on Fabriano, 66 x 72.8 cm
SEBOTSE SELAMULELA, In my image (Coronavirus head), Clay, 35 x 40 x 60 cm
WILLIAM SHAER, Creator, Deconstructed chair, koat wood and Imbura wood, 100 x 75 x 45 cm
Johannes Stegmann Gallery
Interior of the Johannes Stegmann Gallery
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) met at the UFS
2006-05-25
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) met today at the University of the Free State (UFS) for its quarterly meeting. Twenty two vice-chancellors from universities across South Africa met in the Main Building of the UFS. The meeting, which normally takes place in Johannesburg, was moved to Bloemfontein to give the vice-chancellors the opportunities to attend the first Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture that will be presented on the UFS campus tonight.
At the meeting were from the left: Dr Theuns Eloff (Vice-Chancellor North-West University and Deputy Chairperson of HESA), Dr Rolf Stumpf (Vice-Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Prof Njabulo Ndebele (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town), Prof Barney Pityana (Vice-Chancellor of UNISA and Chairperson of HESA) and Prof Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs