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Gwenneth Miller

Gwenneth Miller is a visual artist and is currently lecturering at the Department Art and Music at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She has been involved in collaborative multi-faceted group projects as artist, curator and academic.

Qualifications
DLitt et Phil University of South Africa (2015)
MA (Fine Arts) University of Pretoria (1997)
HOD (n) Northwest University (1985)
BA (Fine Arts) Northwest University (1984)

Brief Biography
Gwenneth Miller was appointed as an art lecturer at Unisa in 1997, the same year in which she completed her Masters in Fine Art at the University of Pretoria. During the early lecturing years, she initiated several local and African collaborative projects, such as the large-scale projections for the play, “Die Verraaier” performed at the Aula (University of Pretoria), and the multimedia project “the Journey to Freedom Narratives,” performed at ZK Matthews Hall, Unisa. This project travelled to several museums in the USA and empowered multiple rural communities, students, and alumni.

Working in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, installation, and digital processes, she focused on intermediality and practice-led research during her Doctoral research. Her art often explores the reciprocity between people and objects of mediation.

She has been the recipient of various awards: Gregoire Boonzaier Prize for Painting as a student (1983 & 1984), the FNB Gold Award for the collaborative project the Journey to Freedom narratives (2004), the Unisa Woman of the Year Nominee for leadership and mentorship roles in relation to Women-in-the-Workplace (2007), a Unisa Women-in-research Award (2012), the meritorious Robin Aldwinckle Bursary, and the award for Creative Output Excellence by Unisa (2021).

Miller participated in over 170 exhibitions and projects and her works are represented in private and public art collections such as ABSA Bank, Telkom, Centurion City Council, UNISA (University of South Africa), SAMHS (South African Military Health Services), SASOL, Northwest University, The Art Bank (South Africa), SANAVA (South African Association of Visual Artists) art collection, and Pretoria Art Museum.

2025 has been an eventful year with a residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France, and the award of a National Research Foundation rating (NRF: C2 ). This is a South African system that benchmarks researchers through international peer reviewers, acknowledging the quality of their work.

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