ABSTRACT:
This project has two main aims. The first and primary aim is to produce a body of paintings,
which take the urban landscape of Johannesburg as subject matter. These works aim
to articulate through the processes of painting the visible and invisible city, aspects of the
social/urban environment that can be seen or recognised, and those that are obscured or
hidden. Through an examination of african urban theory and various tropes of understanding
the city, the notiot of the invisible city is revealed. The research then progresses on to
an exploration of way the city has been pictured by various painters and photographer
