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Artist's Curriculum Vitae Exhibition

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Deirdre Pretorius is an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg in the https://issuu.com/d_pretorius?issuu_product=header&issuu_subproduct=publisher-
Graphic Design Department. She currently lectures Design Studies on undergraduate level home-v2&issuu_context=link&issuu_cta=profile
and supervises postgraduate students in the Honours Design, MA Design and PhD (Art https://johannesburg.academia.edu/DeirdrePretorius
and Design) programmes. As a design historian her research focus is on contemporary https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deirdre_Pretorius
and historical graphic design and visual culture in South(ern) Africa. She has published in
academic journals, presented at conferences and contributed book chapters on topics acknowledgements
which include South African Communist Party graphics, Second World War posters, Thank you to Daniel Erasmus for building the entomology cases, Lana Strydom for
political party logos and overviews of visual communication history. She has practiced as advice on minting NFTs, Andreas Kahlau from Silvertone for printing and Eugene Hön
a freelance graphic designer, and curated and participated in numerous exhibitions. Her of the FADA Gallery for curating the exhibition.
creative practice currently revolves around creating artists’ books.
She is an advisory board member Journal of Design History and a member AICA (International
Association of Art Critics) and SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians).
exhibitions
Her most recent exhibited works include three artists’ books and a variable edition of
14 etchings exhibited at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, and participation in the
exhibition “Decolonising the Book” at the NWU Gallery in collaboration with Visual
Narratives and Creative Outputs (ViNCO), all under the auspices of the Artists’ Book Club,
of which she is a founder member, during September and October of 2022.

Entomology cases.
Depth 52mm / height 273mm / width 395mm.
Mixed media.
2022.

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