Hall, Louise2020-07-082020-07-082020-07https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29244Arts Research Africa Conference Proceeding 2020Drawing from Hall’s own experience with the first Practice-led Research (PLR) PhD in Visual Art at UKZN, this paper argues for the potential of PLR to generate a very particular kind of knowledge based on the dyadic relationship between the artist and the intelligence of materials.en© 2020 Arts Research Africa. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright of texts: the authors, performers, and panellists Copyright of images: the authors, artists, performers, and panellistsArtistic researchArts researchDecolonisationArts pedagogyPresentation