Creative Practice
Recent Submissions
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Analysis and practice of organic forms in ceramic arts
(2023)Throughout history, organic forms can be found in various social contexts such as community rituals. Gradually, with the development and maturation of modern science, organic forms started to be employed in a more conceptually ... -
Seeing our like: Conceptualising a post-‘male gaze’ style of filmmaking
(2022)For over a century society has shown a huge appetite for Hollywood films. Hollywood films have been successful in reaching a wide and diverse audience. Despite the breadth of exposure, a dominant lens, that of the White ... -
Kaupapa Māori music video production: How can bringing kaupapa Māori to music video production in Aotearoa guide creative processes and outcomes?
(2022)An intention underpinning this project was to find a way to support the restoration of mātauranga Māori by bringing mātauranga Māori and my Māori self with me to my filmmaking practice. My chosen methodology for this ... -
Rust never sleeps: How can material exploration contribute to an understanding of time and place in contemporary sculpture and installation art?
(2023)My project explores my ongoing investigation employing an amalgamation of processes in relation to an emergent discussion regarding the vulnerability and fragility of things; the passing of time and site as expressed in a ... -
Uso 4 Life
(2022)Culture and identity among New Zealand’s Pacific diaspora are highly complex and multifaceted contemporary discussions. Through post-colonial theoretical standpoints and creative outputs, many Pacific artists have sought ... -
(I’m)permeable: How can a contemporary installation practice provide understandings of permeability through the embodiments of rituals?
(2022)Artists, thinkers, and everybody, vaguely works under the same conditions we agree upon as life. As does the matter that composes them and their worlds. (I’m)permeable—is a body of shorthand long-form written observations ... -
Brown-Baby
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the integration of different creative techniques and practices contribute to the development of Pasefika visual storytelling? ABSTRACT Brown-Baby is a visual compilation of multiple art mediums ... -
Experiments in the transient
(2022)The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is located off the east coast of New Zealand and is responsible for powerful earthquakes, land upheaval, and tsunami. This project is situated in the Māhia Peninsula, which is significant from ... -
Writing blackness for the New Zealand screen: How Africanising screenwriting practice contributes to black diasporic cinema in New Zealand
(2022)Writing Blackness for the New Zealand Screen is a practice-led experiment in decolonising screenwriting practice. Situated within Black Diasporic Cinema, Pinky (the screenplay) serves as both research and output, exploring ... -
Living furniture: Exploring sustainable solutions through furniture design
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the development and application of a design framework support the design and production of sustainable furniture in a New Zealand context? ABSTRACT This exegesis researches and compares the ... -
Breaking bread: Navigating contemporary screen narratives through a traditional Sāmoan storytelling lens
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can indigenous scriptwriting practitioners keep traditional Sāmoan stories alive within a contemporary screen art form? ABSTRACT My creative practice-led research weaves traditional Pasifika forms ... -
Understanding mortality through the lens of contemporary photography: How can explorations of the abject and the uncanny in contemporary photography provoke experiences of embodiment and mortality?
(2022)This essay explores how contemporary photography can provoke an embodied experience in an audience to help initiate the contemplation of mortality. Emerging research and a growing ‘death positive’ movement proposes that ... -
Communicating ethical messages in motion graphic design to Generation Z
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can motion graphic design communicate ethical messages to raise the awareness of plastic waste pollution among Generation Z in Vietnam? ABSTRACT: Motion Graphic practice has since the early ... -
Workbench
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the User-Centred Design practices inform the development of resources that enhance the creative confidence of professional teams? ABSTRACT: This research project is an exploration of how ... -
No hem: Handling deviance in inhabited worlds
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can figurative painting promote a sense of stillness in a contemporary context of institutional uncertainty and accelerated social change?” INTRODUCTION: Tugging tribulations are described in ... -
Animating the future of urban transportation in Auckland: How can the practice of animation help to promote environmentally sustainable choices in urban transportation in Auckland / New Zealand?
(2021)This exegesis mainly documents the whole process and ideas of my design of this animation. The background of this document is based on the fact that animation has always been a widely used propaganda technique, but now the ... -
Stoking the flames of the digital fireplace. How can the practice of vlogging contribute to an understanding of the presentation of self in contemporary oral history making?
(2020-08-04)Stoking the Flames of the Digital Fireplace is a creative practice based project with an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic focus in which I experiment with and analyse the medium of video-logging (vlogging) on the Youtube ... -
From text to audio-visual : how might academics establish a framework for critical analysis using audio-visual essays?
(2019)The audio-visual essay is a particular form of videographic research that has become popular among scholars and amateur critics in the field of film criticism. Where the written word has sufficed for much of the last century ... -
Primary : film adaptation in theory and practice
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How do all the aspects of the filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to the editing suite, impact the outcome and overall ‘success’ of the adaptation? ABSTRACT: The adaptation of works for film has ... -
The view from nowhere
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can 3D-modelled and 3D-printed dioramas, sculptures and interactive digital artwork be used to explore my thesis that the Enlightenment/Counter- Enlightenment dialectic forms the core structure of ...
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