Rate My Professor Louise Hall

Professor Louise Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where she serves as Academic Leader of the Centre for Visual Art. She holds a Practice-led PhD from the Centre for Visual Art at UKZN awarded in 2013, an MAFA cum laude from the same institution in 2007, an HDE PG (SEC) from the University of Cape Town in 1983, and a BAFA from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg in 1982. Her academic appointments at UKZN include Academic Leader of the Centre for Visual Art since 2016 and Creative Arts Cluster Leader in the School of Arts from 2017 to 2020. She is also the current Chair of the Tatham Art Gallery Board and previously served as a board member from 2017 to 2020.

Hall’s research interests centre on practice-led research, with a focus on drawing as a medium, process, and syntax, and the generative potential of drawing applied to contexts such as NGOs and entrepreneurship. She has an extensive record of exhibitions, including solo shows such as Migration at artSPACE durban in 2014 and Fine Lines at multiple venues in 2012, as well as numerous group exhibitions. Her contributions include co-authoring the 2001 book Drawing Our Lives and leading the DWEBA NGO from 1998 to 2001, which focused on visual language training for rural craftswomen. Hall supervises postgraduate students in fine art and has served as an examiner and reviewer for multiple institutions. Her faculty is Arts.