Events and Tours

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Music until 9.30pm

For students, family members, and select industry guests to celebrate the opening of the Exposure 2024 Graduate Exhibition.

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For select industry guests and music community members to network with students and see new work from the College’s Commercial Music graduates, prior to a student showcase of live music as part of Opening Night. For enquiries contact Blake Johnston, b.johnston@massey.ac.nz

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For select industry guests and design community members to network with students and see new work from the College's design graduates.

An evening for Māori and Pacific students curious about a creative future at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts. Come meet the Māori and Pacific staff and students on campus and check some of their works on display throughout exhibition. Bookings are essential, contact Belinda Weepu, b.weepu@massey.ac.nz.

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This evening is a chance for select industry guests to view screenings of graduate work and network with students. For enquiries contact Karen Loop, k.loop@massey.ac.nz.

Astrid Visser will share our process and some teaching practices to drive divergent thinking with materials. 

We'll look at student samples, material specification sheets, bio-material recipes, and discuss how these practices could be applied in your classrooms. This will be paired with a tour of graduating student projects across Industrial, Spatial, Fashion, and Textile Design where materiality or sustainability is at the centre of their projects.

Join Visual Communication Design lecturer Donald Preston and Fine Arts Lecturer Emma Febvre-Richards for an afternoon of mono printing.

We'll be talking about mono printing as a creative starting point for a range of art disciplines and as a method of getting Photography and Design students off computers, and generating and developing new ideas through tactile exploration.

In Tokelau tā tatau, Jack Kirifi explores the history and art of Tokelau tā tatau (Tokelau tattooing) through historical and contemporary art.

I loto o te Tokelau tā tatau, na hākilikil ai e Jack Kirifi ni ata tuhi ma tala fakaholopito agai ki na tatau fakatokelau (Tokelau tattooing), e maua mai i ni ata tūhia i na aho kua leva ma e fakaāuau.

The practice of Tokelau tā tatau ceased in the mid-19th century with only a few historical accounts recorded by visitors to Tokelau before it was abolished. Although these early accounts and images provide valuable insight to Tokelau tā tatau, little has been documented of the practice from a Tokelau perspective. 

Through his work Jack hopes to provide a path for the Tokelau community to re-connect with the stories and knowledge of Tokelau tā tatau.

Pātaka Art + Museum

17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre

Sacha Lees is a contemporary fine artist based in Pōneke. Her work provokes an uncomfortable and intimate conversation around gendered hierarchies. Lees folds in classical techniques to depict an internal battle, creating a feminist bildungsroman. Her war stories and ecological concerns convey an awakening of her voice and body. The work Cassandra captures a self in flux towards critical feminist identity; or better still, "feminists need to look inside themselves to see what tyrants reside there" (Dawson). Lees' residual corporeal anxiety, executed with 17th-century Baroque painting practices, means that forms are restrained or exert themselves against consumer culture. Cassandra is a surreal push me/pull you mechanism sucking you down into Lees' maelstromic yearning for escape.

Paula Collier - My practice as an artist is at the intersection between sculpture, installation and photography. Here, I explore the interdependence of light and dark through the use of ephemeral materials while responding artistically to the spaces they occupy. I explore themes of transience, latency and potential, specifically how the perception of light and space relates to notions of visibility, darkness and the unknown.

Old Working Men's Club

1/107 Cuba Street

Wellington

Angerlia Oliver, Catherine Betham, Erica Adam and Tayla Hartemink

Urban Dream Brokerage

113 Taranaki Street