David Paton CV 2021 Full name David Murray Paton Curriculum Vitae: DAVID PATON Title Professor Citizenship South African ZA ID Number 6004015056084 BORN: Date of birth 1 April 1960 Age 60 Germiston, South Africa, 1960 Domicile Westdene, Johannesburg, 2092 Mobile +27 82 8884859 EDUCATION: Office +27 11 5591118 email [email protected] Matriculated email [email protected] Jeppe High School for Boys, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1977 web http://www.theartistsbook.org.za Social media Linked in Graduated Research media Academia.edu ResearchGate B.A. Fine Art - majoring in Printmaking with distinction in History of Art, University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, 1984 Google Scholar H.Dip.Ed (Postgraduate) - with distinction, University of the Witwatersrand. 1985 M.A. Fine Art - University of the Witwatersrand. 2001 Cert H.Ed. Man – Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand. 2008 PhD in Existing Published or Creative Work - University of Sunderland, UK. 2019 PRESENT POSITION: ORCID Associate Professor – Department of Visual Art (DoVA), University of Johannesburg, South Africa Drivers Licence Yes Health Good ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Next-of-kin Faheemah Paton-Mayet. Spouse. Teaching at all levels of the BAVA Undergraduate Program in Drawing and Studio Practice Family Jeremy Paton. Son. Canterbury, UK Teaching and consultation in Studio Practice to BA (Hons) VA students Liam Paton. Son. Canterbury, UK Employer University of Johannesburg Supervisor of Postgraduate MAVA students Department of Visual Art +27 11 5591117 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES: Position Associate Professor nd Year co-ordinator of 2 year in the BAVA Program Tenured: 24 years Member of the Management Committee of the Department Member of the Faculty Board of FADA. Member of the Faculty Teaching & Learning Committee (FTLC) of FADA Departmental timetable and associated curriculum coordination (BAVA Program) Departmental website coordination and management: DoVA RESEARCH AREA: South African Artists’ Books Exhibition curation in the field of artists’ books and their digital interface Academic writing on the field of artists’ books Research website manager: Artists’ books in South Africa 1 David Paton CV 2021 POST GRADUATE SUPERVISION: YEAR STUDENT NAME DETAILS OF SUPERVISION Dissertation title: Palimpsest as a visual language for engaging with memories of trauma Corné Venter 2020 - In progress Dissertation title: Ecological grief: speculations on sculptural material responses to specific environmental concerns Marisa Maré In progress Dissertation title: A Psychic Landscape: Reimagining personal identities within local landscapes. 2019 - Alexa Pienaar In progress Dissertation title: Making Sense: Navigating Tacit and Explicit Knowledge in the Creative Process. 2018 - 2019 Nina Torr M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2020. Dissertation title: Fictional worlds and characters in Fook Island: an exemplar for art practice. 2015 - 2018 Allan Laing M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2019. Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal for meritorious research at Postgraduate level. Dissertation title: The Synaesthetic Artist: Manifestations of synaesthesia in selected artworks. Ilka van Schalkwyk 2016 - 2017 M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded 2018 Co-supervisor. Dissertation title: Artist as Cartographer: a visual and semiotic approach. Barry van der Westhuizen M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded 2018. Co- supervisor. Dissertation title: An Uncertain practice: Visual ambiguity as an index of uncertainty in selected painters’ work. 2014 - 2016 Chelsea Rowley M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2017. Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal for meritorious research at Postgraduate level. Dissertation title: Locating the auratic: An investigation of visual translations between photographic sources and paintings. 2013 - 2014 Jenny Pomeroy M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2015. Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal for meritorious research at Postgraduate level. Co-supervisor: Dissertation title: Mapping linkages between image and text: An investigation of Willem Boshoff’s Bread and Pebble Roadmap. 2012 – 2015 Adena Richardson M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2016. Dissertation title: An exploration of the re-presentation of intangible and ephemeral art. 2011 – 2013 Maaike Bakker M.Tech Fine Art awarded with distinction 2014. Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal for meritorious research at Postgraduate level. Dissertation title: Performing masculinities in the iconographies of selected white South African male artists. 2010 – 2012 Derek Zietsman M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2013. Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal for meritorious research at Postgraduate level. Co-supervisor. Dissertation title: From colonial to post-colonial: Shifts in cultural meanings in 16th -18th century Dutch lace and Shweshwe fabric. 2009 – 2010 Shonisani Maphangwa M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded 2011. Dissertation title: Modularity, repetition and material choices as strategies in the work of selected South African sculptors. 2006 – 2008 Gordon Froud M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded 2009. Co-supervisor. Dissertation title: Hybrid identities in Johannesburg: Grafting garment, city and self. 2005 – 2008 Suzanne du Preez M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded 2009. Co-supervisor. Dissertation title: Transformation within personal and public realms through contemporary artmaking processes. 2004 – 2005 Maria Burger M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2006. Dissertation title: Slippages in meaning: The influence of context in scripto/visual communication. 2003 – 2005 Karin Basel M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2006. Dissertation title: Materials and new designs in sustainable community development: A case study of Phumani Papers’ Eshowe Papermaking Project. 2002 – 2004 Joao Maria Matumena Ladeira M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded 2005. Co-supervisor. Dissertation title: The conceptual and practical realisation of a corporate art commission. 1997 – 2002 Susan Woolf M.Tech Fine Art Degree awarded with distinction 2003. 2 David Paton CV 2021 Supervisor of BTech Fine Art student solo exhibition. 2000 Marisa Smit Degree awarded with distinction. Supervisor of BTech Fine Art student solo exhibition. 1999 Stephan Erasmus Degree awarded with distinction. EXTERNAL MODERATION AND ASSESSMENT: YEAR INSTITUTION RESPONSIBILITIES 2019 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg External Moderator for History of Art Hons. Dissertations in the Wits School of the Arts (WSoA). 2018 University of Pretoria, Pretoria External assessor, MAFA student exhibition and theoretical explication. 2017 - 2019 University of Pretoria, Pretoria External assessor, 4th-year students, Department of Visual Arts. 2017 - 2018 University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria External assessor, MAFA student exhibition and theoretical explication. 2014 University of Cape Town, Cape Town External assessor, MFA student exhibition and theoretical explication. Rhodes University, Grahamstown External assessor, MFA student exhibition and thesis. 2013 Central Johannesburg College, Johannesburg. External moderator for final year students, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch. External assessor. MPhil student exhibition and thesis. 2012 University of Cape Town, Cape Town External assessor, MFA student exhibition and theoretical explication. 2009 Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban. External assessor, MTech student exhibition and dissertation. 2008 - 2010 University of Pretoria, Pretoria External assessor, 4th-year students, Department of Visual Arts. 2007 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. External assessor, MAFA Student exhibition and dissertation. 2003 - 2005 IEB (Independent Examinations Board), Johannesburg Moderator in Art (Art History and Practical) for the National Matriculation Examinations. 2001 - 2006 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg External moderator for the Visual Literacy Foundation Programme in the Wits School of the Arts (WSoA). 2001 - 2005 IEB (Independent Examinations Board), Johannesburg External Examiner in Art (Practical) for the National Matriculation Examinations. 2001 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg External Moderator for History of Art II in the Wits School of the Arts (WSoA). 1998 - 2003 FUNDA Community College, Soweto External moderator for the final year students as well as other levels in the Fine Art Department. RESEARCH: 1995 – Present The Artist’s Book in South Africa My decision to research the book as an artwork was made when I viewed Selected Poems 1961 – 1991. This book was a collaborative effort between the poet Patrick Cullinan; the artist Judith Mason, who produced the illuminations and illustrations; Mark Attwood, who hand printed the book; Bruce Attwood, who made the wooden cover boards and Johan Maree who bound the book. After having been introduced to Jack Ginsberg and his extraordinary collection of artists’ books I was invited by Steven Sack, then of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, to curate the only exhibition of Artists’ Books ever held in South Africa. A significant portion of Jack’s collection formed the basis of the exhibition to which I added a number of local works which I was uncovering and researching at the time. Artists’ Books in the Ginsberg Collection became one of the largest exhibitions of its kind in the world when it opened in 1996. My research is contained on the website www.theartistsbook.org.za that won the NIHSS award in the category, Digital Humanities