1. Art exhibition essays
• 1998. Exhibition essay entitled “Ruins”, for Alexandra Murphy’s solo exhibition Groß-stadt, in the Grain
Cellars, William Fehr Collection, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
• 1998. Exhibition essay entitled “Life is elsewhere”, for the group exhibition Life is Elsewhere,
sponsored by the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet and the Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
• 2000. Exhibition essay entitled “Subject: object”, for Mark Hipper’s solo exhibition Subject: Object,
Dakawa Gallery, June-July 2000.
• 2000. Essay entitled “A horrible beauty: destruction, irony, and counter-identity” for the website:
www.jpix.co.za, August 2000.
• 2002. Exhibition essay entitled “Sublimation and desublimation: the ambiguity of utopia and death in
Christine Dixie’s Hide”, for Christine Dixie’s exhibition, Hide, which travelled from Nieu-Bethesda to the
Millennium Gallery in Johannesburg, and the US Art Gallery in Stellenbosch. Hide was also on show at
the Albany Museum Gallery in Grahamstown, June-July 2002.
2. Art exhibition catalogues
• 2001. “Some notes on the life and death drives in Brent Meistre’s Rode”. Brent Meistre: Rode.
Grahamstown: Brent Meistre, 2001: 1-6.
• 2001. “The im-possibility of memory as painting in Dina Belluigi’s Mneme”. Dina Belluigi: Mneme.
Grahamstown: Dina Belluigi, 2001: i-iii.
• 2006. “Lived time: Andries Gouws’ solitary paintings”. Andries Gouws: Hiding behind small things.
Durban: Andries Gouws, 2006: 18-20.
• 2009. “‘As for animals being too dumb to speak for themselves’: Being and nothingness in Wilma
Cruise’s sculptures”. Urban animal. Gavin Young (ed). Cape Town: Art + Text, 2009: 12-14. [ISBN: 978-0620-44988-5]
• 2010. “Pictures, toys, transitional objects”. Minor matters. Dot Vermeulen (ed). Bloemfontein.
3. Art exhibition reviews
• 2001. “Fringe exhibitions at the Johan Carinus Art Centre”, Artthrob 47, July 2001.
• 2001. “Meistre’s classroom”.
• 2001. “Dina Belluigi and Brent Meistre at the Power Station”, Artthrob 47, July 2001.
• 2004. “Brent Meistre”, Art South Africa 3(1): 62. [Accredited journal]
• 2004. “William Kentridge”, Art South Africa 3(1): 65. [Accredited journal]
• 2004. “Personal affects”, Art South Africa 3(2): 54-55. [Accredited journal]
• 2005. “Keiskamma Art Project altarpiece & Paperworks”, Art South Africa 4(1): 67. [Accredited journal]
• 2005. “Gregor Röhrig & Brandhan Dickerson”, Art South Africa 4(1): 67-8. [Accredited journal]
• 2005. “Ties that bind”, Art South Africa 4(1): 68. [Accredited journal]
• 2006. “Andries Gouws”, Art South Africa 5(2): 78. [Accredited journal]
• 2008. “Leora Farber”, Art South Africa 6(3): 101. [Accredited journal]
• 2008. “Pieter Hugo”, Art South Africa 6(4): 94. [Accredited journal]
• 2008. “Nigel Mullins”, Art South Africa 7(2): 104. [Accredited journal]
• 2009. “Lien Botha”, Art South Africa 7(3): 94. [Accredited journal]
• 2009. “Andrew Verster”, Art South Africa 8(1): 87. [Accredited journal]
• 2010. “A light without representation: On the thing in Roger Ballen’s Boarding house”. Nka: Journal of
Contemporary African Art 27 (forthcoming). [International journal.]
• 2011. “Can’t see the art for the trees: 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective”, Enclave Review
(forthcoming). [International journal]
4. Book reviews
• 2003. “Abstract art in the late twentieth century, ed Frances Colpitt”, De Arte 68: 68-9. [Accredited
journal]
• 2005. “History after apartheid: Visual culture and public memory in a democratic South Africa by Annie
E. Coombes”, Art South Africa 3(4): 84. [Accredited journal]
• 2006. “William Kentridge: Black box/Chambre noire”, Art South Africa 5(1): 63. [Accredited journal]
• 2007. “A civilising plan: Uplifting the colonial philistine by Jillian Carman”, Art South Africa 6(1): 104.
[Accredited journal]
• 2007. “Nothing if not phantasmagorical: One million and forty-four years (and sixty-three days, ed
Kathryn Smith)”, Art South Africa 6(1): 105. [Accredited journal]
• 2008. “Africa remix”, Art South Africa 6(3): 103. [Accredited journal]
• 2008. “Message and meaning: The MTN art collection”, Art South Africa 7(1): 104. [Accredited journal]
• 2009. “The Wal-Mart Phenomenon: Resisting Neo-Liberal Power through Art, Design and Theory, ed
Benda Hofmeyr”, Philosophical Papers 39(1): 148-56. [Internationally accredited journal]
http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/461138_731204600_920293489.pdf
• 2010. “Marlene Dumas”. Art South Africa 9(1): 123. [Accredited journal]
5. Accredited journals
• 2003. “Reason and madness: Reading Walter Benjamin and Anselm Kiefer through Albrecht Dürer’s
Melencolia I”, Acta Academica 35(3): 77-115.
• 2004. “Felix in exile: William Kentridge’s self-reflexive allegories of art and history”, Acta Academica
36(2): 1-56.
• 2004. “The value of lists in a postmodern age”, Art South Africa 3(2): 13.
• 2005. “Clouds, veils, and time: Reading blindness or seeing inaccessibility in Gerhard Richter’s
paintings”. South African Journal of Art History 20(1): 267-89.
• 2006. “No footnotes!: Afrocentricism, imperialism, and the culture of complaint”, Art South Africa
4(4): 38.
• 2006. “Biting comedy: Anton Kannemeyer”, Art South Africa 5(2): 54.
• 2007. “Between warp and woof: Willem Boshoff”, Art South Africa 6(2): 42-5.
• 2007. “Melancholy constellations: Benjamin, Kiefer, Kentridge and the play of mourning”, Acta
Academica 39(2): 23-67.
• 2008. “What remains: Photographs, the corpse, and empty places”, South African Journal of Art
History 23(1): 275-300.
• 2008. “A fugitive in search of the void: Neil Goedhals”, Art South Africa 7(1): 80-84.
• 2009. “Thinking in the dark of William Kentridge’s Black box/Chambre noire: Reflections in
reflections”, Acta Academica 41(2): 1-49.
• 2009. “Forget Thembinkosi Goniwe”, Art South Africa 7(4): 23.
• 2009. “Art, history and apartheid”, Art South Africa 8(2): 74-76.
• 2010. “Collected works”. Art South Africa 8(4): 54-59.
• 2010. “What is out of sight and un-foreseeable: Pieter Hugo’s filtered images”. South African Journal
of Art History 25(2): 81-96.
• 2011. “Photography’s aura: Rereading Walter Benjamin and Michael Fried against the grain of visual
colonialisms” (forthcoming).
• 2011. “Taking the time: Willem Boshoff’s thinking and weaving in words, images, clouds and stones”
(forthcoming).
• 2011. “Exposure, ornament, fantasy: The geology of the petrified thing in Roger Ballen’s Boarding
house” (forthcoming).
6. Chapters in books
• 2007. “Postscript”, Leonhard Praeg, The geometry of violence. Africa, Girard, modernity. Stellenbosch:
Sun Press, 2007: 153-5.
7. Selected group art exhibitions
• 1990. Rhodes Art School student and staff exhibition, National Festival of the Arts, Rhodes Art School
Gallery, Grahamstown.
• 1990. Group exhibition with John Hodgkiss, Alexandra Murphy, and Michael Stewart, National Festival
of the Arts, Grahamstown.
• 1990. Rhodes Art School student and staff exhibition, King George, Port Elizabeth.
• 1991. Rhodes Art School student and staff exhibition, National Festival of the Arts, Rhodes Art School
Gallery, Grahamstown.
• 1991. Group exhibition with Rhodes Art School Masters students, National Festival of the Arts,
Grahamstown.
• 1991. Roelfs Young Artist Exhibition, Cape Town.
• 1996. Staff exhibition, Ruth Prowse College of Art and Design, Cape Town.
• 1997. Spaces, with Alexandra Murphy, Ruth Prowse College of Art and Design, Cape Town.
• 1997. Absa l`Atelier, The Arts Association of Belville, Cape Town.
• 1998. Life is Elsewhere, with Jane Henderson and Anthony Strack van Schyndel, sponsored by the
Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet and the Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town.
• 1998. Staff exhibition, Ruth Prowse College of Art and Design, Cape Town.
• 1998. New Signatures, The Arts Association of Belville, Cape Town.
• 1999. Amalgamation, National Library of South Africa, Cape Town.
• 1999. Absolut Secret 4, Absolut Wildlife, AVA, Metropolitan Gallery, Cape Town.
• 1999. Spectrum Images II — from the Western Cape — for the Millennium, The Art Channel Online
Gallery.
• 2000. Eastern Cape Artists, Albany Museum Gallery, Grahamstown.
• 2001. Re-constitution, National Festival of the Arts, Rhodes Art School Gallery, Grahamstown.
• 2003. Console, National Festival of the Arts, Johan Carinus Art Centre, Grahamstown.
• 2008. Eietyds Vrystaats / Free State Contemporary, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein.
• 2008. 4 x 4 x 4. These Four Walls Art Gallery, Observatory, Cape Town.
• 2009. Eietyds Vrystaats / Free State Contemporary, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein.
• 2010. Eietyds Vrystaats / Free State Contemporary, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein.
• 2010. Minor matters, Eufees Gallery, Bloemfontein.
8. Books
He is currently completing a book-length study titled Thinking photographs: Art, history, time, and
reproducibility.