End of Year Exhibition 2022: Celebrating the mahi of our future architects, designers and creatives
Professor Robyn Phipps, Dean of Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa—Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, invites the public, friends, whānau, prospective students, and alumni to the End of Year Exhibition 2022.
The exhibition, hosted at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Te Aro campus, is open from 9 am–5 pm, 4–21 November.
“This event is also for all the future employers and leaders in the creative and building industry who want to keep abreast of fresh creative thinking,” says Professor Phipps.
Attendees can enjoy drinks and nibbles at the Opening Night Celebration starting at 5.30 pm on 4 November, followed by the Faculty’s annual student awards ceremony.
The exhibition celebrates the mahi, skill, and talent of students, with the exhibited works ranging from first-year projects to postgraduate research. Their work is displayed within the light-filled atrium at the heart of the campus.
“By being a fully multidisciplinary Faculty, both across the built environment and the design realm, we create an incubator space for new initiatives and idea developments, and this exhibition displays the results of this creative space,” Professor Phipps adds.
Myriad unique works are on display from Te Kura Waihanga—Wellington School of Architecture and Te Kura Hoahoa—School of Design Innovation.
Nan O’Sullivan, Head of the School of Design Innovation, says: “It's so exciting. The exhibition celebrates the future of Design in Aotearoa through student works that showcase the diverse knowledges, narratives, systems, skills, and technologies that enable our students to thrive.”
Among the exhibited works is Nested by first-year architecture student Poppy MacMillan, which converges built forms and foliage forms found within the urban environment into sculpture.
In Fractured Luminescence, second year project management student Jared Willoughby uses photography to study both horizontal lines within Wellington’s urban infrastructure and light reflections from Shibuya, Japan, producing 3D models of the combined cityscape.
Jenny Gatehouse, a third-year student studying animation and visual effects, creates an enchanting world of princes and tragedy within the hand-drawn comic strip The Famous Flower of Serving Men. The comic is based on Laurence Price’s 17th-century ballad of the same name and modified to form a coherent tale.
“I created this comic with the purpose of sharing a little of my ancestral culture and, more personally, to give new life to a forgotten tale that I thought beautiful, both of which this exhibition helps to achieve,” Jenny says.
Prospective students are welcome—come along and learn more about the study pathways on offer within the faculty, and meet students and staff. Information about full-time and part-time programmes will be available.
“It is a prime opportunity to experience how craftsmanship develops within the specialised study areas and across the years of study, from first year studies right through to PhD,” says Tane Moleta, Senior Lecturer in the Wellington School of Architecture.
An online version of the exhibition accompanies the in-person event. It showcases students’ videos, design boards, photographs, and digital artwork from 2022 and previous years.
More information about the End of Year Exhibition can be found on the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation website.
