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How is identity produced? Explores key concepts of fluidity, intersectionality, body image, fashion, gender and persona, in relation to photography, film, art, and fashion.

Students will undertake a studio art project that responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change. The course explores related art and ideas from Aotearoa and overseas.

Explores our place as a species within a broader ecological framework. Enables students to reflect on the limitations proposed by ways of thinking that separate self from world. Through studio practice and artistic research, develops an enhanced awareness of and sensitivity to living systems.

Considers virtual and tactile methods of production in contemporary art. Investigates the tension where the physical and virtual worlds are woven together. In mixed realities, the line between analogue and digital artmaking is blurred. This course provides an opportunity to experiment with technologies which might include 3D printing, real-time and interactive technologies, laser cutting, digital casting, and 3D scanning.

Focuses on the idea that a key driver of creative practice is the seeking out and imagining of alternative models for living, this course provides students with the opportunity to engage in world-making. Students generate and produce artworks that explore new worlds. Provides an understanding of how material affects and conceptual propositions work together to produce meaning in an artwork.

Presents selected forms of contemporary art practices and their related concepts. Considers these practices to enable a critical understanding of a broad range of contemporary art production and its relevance to students' own emerging practice. Provides a critical introduction to a range of artists' writing. Complements FINEARTS 308 and 309 by critically exploring the value of certain frameworks, including: philosophy, theory, art history, writing, tikanga Māori and the socio-cultural for a self-directed practice.

Builds upon the conceptual, material, technical and contextual work undertaken in Studio Practice 2. Students will explore and develop a range of methodologies that will enable them to understand the principle of a self-directed practice. Students are required to pursue open-ended exploration and critical analysis within their studio work, with an emphasis on experimentation and reflexivity. Consists of a range of supervised briefs embracing media specific, interdisciplinary, Māori, local and global approaches to creating art works. Students will also engage in focused contextual study in an area relevant to their interests.

Extends the self-directed aspect of FINEARTS 308 through work on one or two long-term personal projects. A key focus is the identification of, and response to, a contextual issue or mode of practice relevant to contemporary art. Students will begin to develop an understanding of their own practice within the context of a wider field of local and international contemporary art practices. Students will also engage in focused contextual study in an area relevant to their interests.

Builds upon the conceptual, material, technical and contextual work undertaken in Studio Practice 2. Students will explore and develop a range of methodologies that will enable them to understand the principle of a self-directed practice. Students are required to pursue open-ended exploration and critical analysis within their studio work, with an emphasis on experimentation and reflexivity. Consists of a range of supervised briefs embracing media specific, interdisciplinary, Māori, local and global approaches to creating art works.

Extends the self-directed aspect of FINEARTS 308 through work on one or two long-term personal projects. A key focus is the identification of, and response to, a contextual issue or mode of practice relevant to contemporary art. Students will begin to develop an understanding of their own practice within the context of a wider field of local and global contemporary art, and contemporary Māori Art practices.

What does it mean to consider creative practice as research? Examines the history and theory of contemporary art’s relationship to the academy, focused on the practical implications of framing art-making as a capstone project. Develops academic research skills culminating in a research proposal.

A major studio art project that demonstrates an advanced level of practical, independent, inventive, and conceptual enquiry. Students will engage in research and studio investigation using tools, technologies, and methods appropriate to their chosen field or fields of enquiry.

A response to the capstone project, this course focuses the research essay within relevant local, international, and historical fields of practice. Considers different ways of writing and discussing art, and how different types of art may be served by different forms of interpretation.

A development of Part III Studio courses in selected fields.

A development of Part III Studio courses in selected fields.

Assists students to develop their creative practice through the production of a coherent body of studio-based work. This will be supported by considered development of an artistic and/or design philosophy and its effective use in relation to studio practice. The course encourages a solid understanding of presentation strategies appropriate to the exhibition and/or professional presentation of creative work.

Building on Studio 4A this course will assist students to develop further their creative practice through the production of a coherent body of studio-based work. Students will further develop their understanding and articulation of concepts and discourses relevant to their studio work. The course promotes a reflexive understanding of creative practice and strategies for its professional presentation.

A studio-based investigation of a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop advanced conceptual capabilities in that medium and realise finished works to an advanced standard. These specialised outcomes will be informed by complementary acquisition of advanced technical skills and theoretical knowledge in co-requisite courses focused on the same medium.

A workshop-based exploration of a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop advanced technical skills in that medium as an area of targeted inquiry. These advanced skills will complement the attainment of specialised creative studio capabilities and advanced theoretical knowledge in co-requisite courses focused on the same medium.

A seminar-based interrogation of contemporary theories and contexts pertinent to a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop an advanced understanding of key critical and contextual analysis in that medium. This understanding will complement the attainment of specialised creative studio capabilities and acquired advanced technical skills focused on the same medium.

A studio-based investigation of a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop advanced conceptual capabilities in that medium and realise finished works to an advanced standard. These specialised outcomes will be informed by complementary acquisition of advanced technical skills and theoretical knowledge in related courses focused on the same medium.

A workshop-based exploration of a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop advanced technical skills in that medium as an area of targeted inquiry. These advanced skills will complement the attainment of specialised creative studio capabilities and advanced theoretical knowledge in co-requisite courses focused on the same medium.

A seminar-based interrogation of theories and contexts pertinent to a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop an advanced understanding of key critical and contextual analysis in that medium. This understanding will complement the attainment of specialised creative studio capabilities and acquired advanced technical skills focused on the same medium.

A guided exploration of key research methodologies relevant to contemporary art and art writing. Students draw upon these methodologies to inform and critically investigate their current and ongoing independent research in the discipline at an advanced level.

A guided exploration of key research methodologies relevant to contemporary art and art writing. Students draw upon these methodologies to inform and critically investigate their current and ongoing independent research in the discipline at an advanced level.