Tag: contemporary-art
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Te Manawa exhibition opening
After finishing my Masters degree in 2024, I was flat out working on my piece for an exhibition by Te Awahou Collective, called Te Puna o Te Atua, at Te Manawa. But let me backtrack a little. Towards the end of 2023, I met Albert McCarthy through Gary Whiting who is a lecturer at UCOL.…
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Master of Design
I’ve been postponing writing about my experience doing this degree through UCOL for some time now. Perhaps the fact that it was suddenly something of the past; no more deadlines, and no more worries about delivering something that could get me through, that caused a numbness, a lethargy that led to inertia. Not that making…
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Student exhibition
The past five to six weeks have been full on. As Andrea (a ceramist and one of our lecturers) would say ‘head down, bottom up’, I was working none-stop on my two pieces for the student exhibition. For this semester I was exploring and playing with scale/size, and in line with my subject matter (liminality)…
Wouna le Roux 