The 2009 – 2012 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Awards provided liberating funding to the imaginative projects of UCT staff in partnership with other academics and/or externally situated artists without limitations in discipline. These awards supported new projects that engaged with ideas of interdisciplinarity and innovation across academic units and communities. The year-long projects required collaboration in a theorised, critical process of discovery, preferably with creative artists in any discipline.
2012 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Awards winners:
- Leslie London, Chuma Himonga, Helen Macdonald & Susan Levine
- Mike Rossi
- Nick Shepherd & Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento
- Rebekka Sandmeier
2011 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Awards winners:
- Geoffrey Hyland
- Kristina Johnstone, Jamila Rodrigues& Steven van Wyk
- Rael Salley
- Virginia MacKennny
2010 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Awards winners:
- Andrew Lamprecht
- Gavin Younge
- Gerard Samuel
- Lance van Stittert
- Mark Fleishman
2009 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Awards winners:
- Fritha Langerman
- Jay Pather
- Kurt Campbell
- Mandla Mbothwe
- Svea Josephy, Noeleen Murray, Carson Smuts, Harry Garuba & Tessa Dowling