Drilling in the centre of campus to put down pipes for new Ground Source Heat Pumps to heat buildings more sustainably is also providing a generous outdoor gallery.
Third-year Graphic Design students from the School of Product Design have posted their stunning artworks on fencing facing towards Matariki quad. The artworks originated from an assignment to create a 3D cube featuring a typeface and using any material. The quirky cubes were then photographed, the posters were printed and posted neatly in place, showing off the students’ creativity and skill.
Over at the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing staff building, which is being refurbished, the Asset Planning and Delivery team approached the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) to offer exhibition space on the newly erected hoarding. Sited next to a courtyard where students meet, relax and have lunch, the fencing features the aptly named On the Fence collaborative exhibition of posters of artworks by third-year painting students.
School of Fine Arts (SoFA) staff were delighted to facilitate the projects and are looking forward to future projects that continue to embed these opportunities within coursework, to give students an in-depth taste of developing work for exhibiting publicly.
“As part of the project we looked at the ways that artwork is installed around campus and read about a range of painting practices that involve work in public space,” SoFA Lecturer Raewyn Martyn says.
“This included looking at work by German artist Katharina Grosse; artists included in a recent survey show ‘Who’s afraid of public space’ at ACCA (Australian Centre of Contemporary Art) in Melbourne. We took a field trip to Greymouth to visit Sam Duckor-Jones’ ‘Gloria of Greymouth’ project that repurposes a deconsecrated church.”
Each artwork is drawn from the students’ coursework and the selection includes investigations such as immersive landscape, automatism, reforestation, spiritual desire, and the secret worlds of TimeZone plushies.