Design and Visual Arts Dissertations and Theses
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Justmytype: An exploration of documentary filmmaking for New Zealand typographic education
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can an online multi-part documentary series on perspectives and approaches to typography be used as an educational resource to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject? ABSTRACT The purpose ... -
Apentimento
(2021)INTRODUCTION: I started this masters project (like most painters I believe) because I needed a studio. I like to have a studio because I value time away from people and because I enjoy the challenge of painting. Painting ... -
'droplet' : [how can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?]
(2020-11-27)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?’ ABSTRACT: I am an artist exploring mixed media practices, including photography and ... -
Exploring whānau knowledge and hybridity through typographical design
(2020)This exegesis documents and accounts for the development of a body text typeface designed by me, a hybrid practitioner. Using a practice-based approach with a focus on auto-ethnography, my research explores my own experiences ... -
Agar Agar : a practice and theory of cultural hybridity in contemporary art
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: What can auto-ethnography and the concepts of Agar Agar and hybridity contribute to a contemporary art practice? ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to explore the ideas of Agar Agar and ... -
Looking through the eyes of others : an investigation into methodologies of 360 film making
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: Do the pre-existing methodologies in film and theatre lend themselves for the development of narrative content in first-person point of view Spherical Video? ABSTRACT: This Thesis represents my ... -
‘Not durable, but sustainable’: print technology and ephemerality in product design
(2018)[RESEARCH] QUESTION: How can the principles of temporary and the ephemeral be employed by design in the critical redesign of consumer technological artefacts? OBJECTIVES: - Develop a taxonomy of ephemerality in design, ... -
Keeping watch : fabricating a space of hesitation
(2018)In 2011 the MV Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Stacks of containers fell from the ship and household goods, industrial items and oil washed into the sea coating beaches and birds. ... -
The space connecting - meaningful exchange : exploring aspects of the making and apprehension of artwork through material investigation and participation
(2017)This research project investigates the mechanics and processes of an artists’ practice in conjunction with the convention that art acts as a vehicle of communication. How well an artist communicates their thoughts, ... -
Self discovery through figurative painting
(2017)Narrative painting through allegorical figuration For the initial stages of my master’s project I embarked on a series of works that were a tentative step towards understanding the notion of ‘narrative’ and how this ... -
Co-designing primary learning space in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2017-03)Research Question: How can co-design assist students at a bicultural primary school in central Auckland transition into a ”Modern” or ”Innovative” learning environment (MLE/ILE)? New Zealand’s Ministry of Education ... -
Virtualising the stories of Ngākau Māhaki mā te whare e arahi : let the whare be the guide
(2016)This research investigated how mātauranga Māori, recorded histories and events associated with Unitec’s Te Noho Kotahitanga marae can be shared within a digital space. To this end, I developed a model digital repository ... -
Mansfield and me : intertexuality and the autobiographical impulse in the graphic novel : an exegesis
(2016-05-26)This research explores the practice of intertextuality in graphic memoirs and biographies. As Graham Allen writes, “Meaning becomes something which exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and ... -
Chance, change, and making strange : the surprising aesthetics of electronic interaction
(2013)This work is an exploration of how randomly generated electronic interaction can be employed to push beyond the sense of instrumentality defined by most domestic electronic experiences. This exegesis recounts a body of ... -
He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua
(2015)TE POU KŌRERO – ABSTRACT This exegesis documents the journey of He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua, a moving image and sound project, expressing the significance of bicultural experiences in bilingual units within ... -
Everyday liminality
(2014)This painting project commenced through the activity of re-examining my previous practice, which prompted the desire to focus on the activity of painting through the plasticity of oil paint. The intention to focus on ... -
Flowers in a contemporary painting practice
(2013)This project originated from a cornucopia of personal experiences that informed a perspective shaped by a life growing up surrounded by flowers in the context of a large creative family and a domestic-craft background. ... -
The reframed portrait : redefining the roles of the artist and sitter within the genre of portraiture
(2013)This research project investigates the role of 'agency' within the conventional terms of reference when it pertains to the artist and the model in the genre of Portraiture. The project investigates the expectations within ... -
Re-staging Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique : theoretical and practical issues
(2012)This writing can be broadly characterised as presented in two parts: WAYFARING discusses the inspiration for a new work, and outlines some theoretical issues and cultural approaches. VOYAGING examines the ‘making’, which ... -
The knot not and the knot now
(2014)Chapter one discusses the role of craft in my art practice, and the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach. The next chapter centres around the idea that art can be a simple process of stripping away the detritus ...
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