Exposure Graduate Exhibition

That's a wrap for Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Exposure Exhibition He Kanohi Kitea, for 2023.

The two-week-long exhibition was a huge success, and one of our highlights was our specialist industry events. More than 220 guests from the creative community in Te Whanganui-a-Tara joined us for these events, showcasing our commitment to fostering connections and employment opportunities with our local creative industries in design, fine arts, screen arts, and commercial music.

Thanks to Jack Young, a third-year photography student, for capturing the events.

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Explore work from Master of Fine Arts!

You can see all the projects created by our Master of Fine Arts Students on the Exposure 2023 website (https://exposure2023.massey.ac.nz/).

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Master of Fine Arts: Bena Jackson, Here we all are

'Here we all are' traces a kind of collective engagement or a mass of small dents into the surfaces of our urban environments—community actions where agency, ingenuity, potential, and tension intersect. I am interested in how people living in a city—not councils or businesses—work to align environments more closely with their needs and beliefs.

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Toi Rauwhārangi

Master of Fine Arts: Lily Dowd, Embodied Shadow

Embodied Shadow engages with cameraless and archaic modes of photographic making. It documents experiences of collaboration as my bodily surface folds against light-sensitive emulsion on expired photographic film and paper. Imprinting my touch suggests time’s ephemerality in remembering through the medium of photography. Exposed as lumen prints, left without chemical fixtures, these personal recollections gradually fade. As this fugitive diary is revealed in the light, the impermanent archive will cascade to be only an afterimage.

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Master of Fine Arts: Ben Lowe, Here

Here' is a photographic MFA research project that seeks to make time and light tangible. Created at night-time, the photographs depict Te Rimurapa on the south coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and highlight significant connections between the cosmos and land. The vertical format black-and-white photographs reflect a nocturnal perception that reveals a parallel world of night that deepens our perspective and sense of time, place and self.

📍Courtenay Place Light boxes, Te Aro, Open 24 hours

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Explore work from Master of Design!

You can see all the projects created by our Master of Design Students on the Exposure 2023 website (https://exposure2023.massey.ac.nz/).

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Master of Design: Genevieve Rae, Ecosystem: material and maker

Through a multispecies philosophy lens, Genevieve investigates how designers might better integrate their work within Aotearoa ecosystems to create symbiotic relationships. The project explores juxtaposing materials design methods; mycelium based materials, and a practice of weaving in a wild ecosystem. Genevieve offers tools and processes for designers to begin and to continue to make with care and consideration for the inhabitants who share this place with us.

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Master of Design: Jean Donaldson, Invisible Coast

Invisible Coast acts as a case study for how we might increase our connection to Aotearoa’s coastal marine environment through a collaboration between design and science. The tool is built using design methodologies alongside a scientific framework called The Five Pathways to Nature Connectedness. By activating the five pathways of senses, beauty, emotion, cultural meaning and compassion through Invisible Coast the audience develops an increased feeling of connection to our natural world.

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Master of Design: Yuifan Li, Bone Blood Skin - An experimental fashion process connecting culture, craft and identity

Cultural and personal identity is an everchanging negotiation of values and learned social patterns. In this practice-led research my focus is to explore how culture and thinking impact, and expand my identity as a Chinese fashion designer. This reflective fashion design process explores traditional Chinese crafts to create experimental pieces, evaluating how traditional culture and identity can evolve creative thinking and responses. This exploratory design process is led by metaphorical translations of bone, blood and skin as a framework. A reflective method can help inform a greater understanding of self-identity and cultural impact. Identifying a changing identity highlight that everything has two sides, even the culture through fashion design.

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Explore work from Post Graduate of Māori Visual Arts!

We were lucky to have Toioho Ki Āpiti student, Aroha Matchitt-Millar displaying their art at Exposure Exhibition. You can see Aroha's work on the Exposure 2023 website (https://exposure2023.massey.ac.nz/).

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Toioho ki Apiti - Bachelor of Maori Visual Arts

Postgraduate Diploma Māori Visual Arts: Aroha Matchitt-Millar, Hōmai ō Taringa kia Ngaua e au (Give me your ears so I may chew on them)

A taonga inherently contains all the knowledge of its creation and, within Te Ao Māori, is acknowledged as having its own life force. Acknowledging Hine-nui-te-pō and Hineahuone as creation atua, these jewellery works explore what happens when taonga are created from something at the end of its life cycle. Does this taonga now contain not only the knowledge of its creation but also the knowledge of its death?

Massey University
Toi Rauwhārangi
Toioho ki Apiti - Bachelor of Maori Visual Arts