NOMINEE

 

NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT

AVITHA SOOFUL

Professional status

Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Dept of Visual Arts and Design, VUT.

Academic qualifications

1986 BA Fine Arts (Univ of Kwazulu Natal),  MA Fine Arts (Univ of Kwazulu Natal)

1994 Higher Diploma in Education (Univ of Kwazulu Natal)

1997 Adult Basic Education Training Certificate (Unisa)

2001 Further Diploma in Educational Management (New Johannesburg University)

2007 Registered for D Tech degree at VUT

Career

1999 Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator at VUT

Positions of responsibility: 2002-2009 Visual arts panellist on National Arts Council

2007-2009 Advisory Committee panellist of Visual Arts Department of Univ of Johannesburg

2007 Panellist – Judge (session 1 & 2) at Sasol wax art competition

2008 Advisory Committee panellist for Fine/Applied Arts at Tshwane Univ of Technology

2008 Chairman of Faculty Research Committee of VUT

2008 National Arts Council panellist representative at International Symposium, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg “Public art transforming society”.

Coordination

Curriculum development towards a new PQM: Dr Paul Prinsloo, Unisa (2009)

Generic first year programme: Ms Mary Duker, NMMU (2009)

Issues of Whiteness: Prof Melissa Steyn, UCT (2010)         

Exhibitions

2005 Miniature exhibition, VUT

2005 Solo exhibition at Gallery 88, Sasolburg; 

2005 Artist in the “Children’s Rights’” Portfolio, Artists for Humanity – Kwazulu Natal

2006 Two-person show (Linda du Preez/Avi Sooful) at Gallery 88, Sasolburg;

2006 Miniature exhibition, VUT

Collective exhibition at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2006 Two-person show (Anna Stone/Avi Sooful) at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2007 SANAVA Group show, Pretoria Art Museum

2008 “Soul of Africa’, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand, Johannesburg

2008 Group show “OUTSITE”, Bodutu Gallery, VUT

2009 Group show “IMPROMPTU”, Bodutu Gallery, VUT.             

Awards

1999 International Merit Award at the 2^nd International Print Exhibition, Croatia

2006 Three-months’ Artist Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.