Binjun Grobbelaar

PhD student

Binjun Grobbelaar is a PhD Candidate with the NRF/DST SARChI Chair Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Binjun has worked as a freelance curator, translator, educator and mining inspector across different industries. In 2013, she co-founded the Southern Africa Chinese Visual Art Association which focuses on cross-cultural events between local Chinese artists and African artists. 

She received her MA in Heritage Studies at Wits University. Her research interests include geopolitics and visual art representation of Chineseness in South Africa, the role of visual art in the South African mining industry. 

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