SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

The School of Fine Arts at Massey University offers degree courses in Photography and Fine Art from undergraduate through to Masters and PhD level, and an undergraduate Diploma in Photography.

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The School currently has two significant research bases; The Litmus Research Initiative, an internationally focused programme devoted to scholarship in contemporary art, and a second Research Cluster who’s research represents the School’s unarguable position as New Zealand’s premier provider of degree level photography. There is a dynamic and innovative culture that pervades the school.

The staff that teach on the programmes are notable for their research activities and as exhibiting professional artists, academics and writers. The students who emerge from our courses are imbued with a sense of excitement and purpose. They have comprehensive skills in working across a range of media, and the critical and analytic tools with which to explore the global dialogues of contemporary practice. Their panache and élan are well

noted by the creative sector nationally and there is a genuine buzz around the creative community of Wellington anticipating the future careers of these new professionals. The staff of the School of Fine Arts would like to wish the graduates success and fulfilment in their respective futures. PROFESSOR JEREMY DIGGLE

Head of School, School of Fine Arts

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Our graduates this year will head into a world increasingly reliant on the photographically derived image. At Massey they have learnt to apply photography to a huge range of contexts - from documentary practice through to highly specific client driven applications. A comprehensive understanding of photographic history and the role of the medium in the social realm also informed student work. We are confident that our graduates will use their skills and knowledge to push the boundaries of the medium. In 2008 all of our students were exposed to a regular programme of visiting photographic artists and arts professionals. We have developed an exciting relationship with the Goethe Institut that has enabled us to host a series of leading German photographers and curatorial experts. This programme – Tiefenscharfe will continue to develop strong international links between the School of Fine Arts Photography Department and the German photographic scene over the next two years. In addition to supporting student learning this initiative also has significant benefits for research within the School. The Peter Turner Scholarship in Documentary Photography was also launched in 2008. The quality of the first applications confirms that we will see some exciting projects generated by the recipient in the Master of Fine Arts programme. We look forward to graduates taking this opportunity to enable them to return to postgraduate study in the future. WAYNE BARRAR DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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KATE BARTLETT

Clean air, or a Muggy Future? Global warmings call for cleaner energy. [email protected] 027 635 1969

ROCHELLE DENT

[email protected] 021 065 1370

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AMANDA ELLIOTT

[email protected] 027 331 0846

JULIA FERRIER

Constructed Portraiture. Personal space as a reflection of identity and in turn an extension of the body. [email protected] 021 847 662

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TARA HEERAN-HARRIS

Untitled from the series Witnesses is a response to the way in which crime, violence and death are glamorised in the media today. [email protected] 027 304 0553

MEL HENDERSON

Larger than life. [email protected] 027 547 6512

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RUTH HOCKIN

[email protected] 027 206 7779

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LEANA KEEN

Neverland – Putaruru series A journey of memory, magic and adventure. [email protected] 027 408 0033

EMMA KOTSAPAS

[email protected] 027 334 9799 (04) 383 6838

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ANNA LAWRENCE

As Ma-ori bloodlines have become diluted significant aspects of Ma-ori cultural practice have diminished resulting in Ma-ori descendants searching the void of their cultural conditions. [email protected] 027 664 9527

MURRAY LLOYD

Moutoa Gardens is an image from the series Scenes in Ma-oriland in which early 20th century New Zealand postcards are placed within a contemporary context. www.murraylloyd.com [email protected] (04) 976 6733 021 473 999

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SAMANTHA LOWNDES

[email protected] 027 440 4769

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LUCY JANE BEATTIE-HUGHES

Order out of chaos Imagery from a contemporary perspective, which explores familiar objects, space and memory to reevaluate and re-view my family archive. [email protected] 027 416 5089

SARAH MACDONALD

How can photographic methods be employed to explore people’s impulse to control and construct nature, within the domestic garden? www.sarahmac.co.nz [email protected] 027 406 3733

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LUCY MCLEAN

Afflicted Splendour Notions of the Romantic have merged with the Sublime, creating a sick beauty and aesthetic magnificence that implies impending danger and threat. [email protected] 027 421 2575

JESSICA MICHELS

The objects we align ourselves with become a shrine, a homage to the person we aspire to be. This work critiques the ‘building’ of identity through consumerism. Runner-up Zonta Design Award, Photography, 2008

[email protected] 027 464 4148

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MIZUHO NISHIOKA

Far North This research aims to locate a role for the archive within photography, specifically focusing on where photography intersects with the process of the archival and how might the archival mode of photographic practice assign value to a given set of images. [email protected]

ROCHELLE PEPPER

Blood & Water [email protected]

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TIM SEARLE

[email protected] 027 306 9947

JESSICA SHERLOCK

Eva Strangelove, burlesque dancer. [email protected] 027 424 4848

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AMY SISSON

Portraiture series looking at the absence and presence of the sitter in the photograph. - Winner Zonta Design Award, Photography, 2008 - Epson NZIPP Iris Awards 2008, Bronze Medal

[email protected] 027 316 5534

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ALICE SKINNER

In-between Places. [email protected] 027 698 8481

NINA VAN DER VOORN

[email protected] 027 345 0357

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ALISCIA YOUNG

Illuminations: Illuminating a replication of an ephemeral moment in time, as derived from nature. [email protected]

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It is with great pleasure that the staff of the School of Fine Arts extend their warmest congratulations to all our graduates of 2008. During their time with us, these students have benefited from an astute, inquiring and supportive culture – one that they have helped create, and also participated in. We know that this model will hold them in good stead as they go on to a variety of active roles in the cultural fabric of New Zealand and the world beyond. We are proud of the fact that graduates from our programmes work thoughtfully, independently and collaboratively, and are valued for their ability to effectively combine a wide range of media and processes. The School’s focus on interdisciplinary training is intended to enable our graduates to work across conventional boundaries - from new forms of image generation to interface technologies, from material and spatial exploration to planning and urban development, or indeed any new industry requiring flexible, creative and lateral thinkers. We look forward to following their progress as they move into new opportunities as artists, consultants, teachers, freelance practitioners, art writers, curators, technicians, project managers, in postgraduate study or the many other paths they may decide to follow. MADDIE LEACH UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

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DEBBIE ALLAN

Video still. [email protected] 021 170 3334

CATHERINE CAUDWELL

The Analytical Daughter “We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquardloom weaves flowers and leaves.” Ada Lovelace [email protected] 021 904 584

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GEMMA DUNCAN

Hanging Hill 2008 R. KENDRA EDGE

[email protected] www.gemma.duncan.com

If these pages were people they’d be undressed. Just undressed. Still marked by the weave of cloth, the ridge of seam, the clutch of strap. [email protected] 021 111 7141

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WAIMATAO FAMILTON

Video stills from performance piece and remnants of performance: Ma-ori brown eyes. A celebration and critique of cultural social standings. [email protected] 027 216 8039

HANNAH EDMUNDS

The role of the Cinematic and Video Art is becoming increasingly blurred. When aligned with the notion of the audience as participator it raises the question of Art as entertainment. [email protected] 021 063 9463

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LARA HEWALD

The 3D form is comprised of geometric shapes from architectural structures. It is a site-specific work referencing the space it occupies. [email protected] 027 212 6792

SARAH PETI SIAN HUDSON

An exploration of ideas around femininity and feminism, self-portraiture and memory, childhood and sexuality, fetish and the grotesque. [email protected]

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JOHNATHON TITHERIDGE

Time-Based I prefer things that move and stand still at the same time. [email protected] 027 408 1593

PHILIPPA MALLINSON

Ambiguous, quiet and restrained. An amplification of the unconscious quotidian, the quiet contemplative nature of the work gently jolting the viewer into a self awareness. [email protected] 027 469 9702

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MARG ROBINSON

This is a conflation of iconic painting and mundane materials. [email protected] 021 189 6930

KEILA MARTIN

“Motivated by the status of contemporary painting, I explore themes of death, plasticity, excess and obsolescence in otherwise traditional still lives”. [email protected] 021 123 8976

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SHANE MCGRATH

Regressive Action No.1 [email protected]

CHRISTINA OLDFIELD

David Mair Photomedia Spatial Residences Contextual Studio [email protected]

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NATALIA KARENKA PARRA-SIERRA

In Between Cities 2008 This print has several plates with vibrant colours and textures of different materials, presenting a vision of Wellington city, intersected with ideas of Bogotá, Colombia. [email protected] 027 444 6687

REBECCA RAIT

There is a continuous shaping of space that takes place as we re-order, re-organize and re-arrange those places we inhabit. [email protected] 021 620 753

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KRISTIN VAN DER POEL

A playful exploration of intervention into various domestic and public sites involving altered everyday objects and the manipulation of function. [email protected] 027 306 9750

SAMANTHA WALLIS

Ideal moth catching conditions… warmth, darkness, humidity, night scented plants, sugaring solution and Robinson light traps. [email protected] 027 330 0932

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ANA WHITLOW

2E0.6 (detail) [email protected]

JANE WILCOX

[email protected] 027 315 1437

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