SITE 2020

Congratulations to our successful print student graduates who participated in SITE20 with a diverse variety of print and installation outcomes. Despite the limitations of lockdown, the students worked really hard to put on a grand display of works.

Sam Mitchell (BVA Honours) presented an extended performance complete with merchandising in her unsuccessful SOAP political party campaign during an election year.

Maisie Robinson (BVA Honours) responded to the COVID lockdown with her Housebound series of screenprints and wallpaper.

Teresa Bernard (BVA) completed a screenprint series of colourful close-ups commenting on everyday paraphernalia associated with ‘touch’.

Dana Cavanagh (BVA) worked on a series of 3D constructed screenprints responding to architecture.

Hemi Hosking’s (BVA) text based screenprints comment on cultural stereotyping.

Investigating the local landscape was important to Jahn Morris-Hill (BVA) using deconstructed screenpint and plein air techniques.

Brittany Sleight (BVA) employed digital collage to convey her transparent dreamscapes.

Maisie and Dana have gone on to teachers college while Hemi and Jahn are now in the Postgraduate programme at the Dunedin School of Art.

We wish you all well for your future career paths and artistic endeavors.

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Congrats to Sam, Poppy and Demi on their end of year exhibition.

Poppy George, 2019, chux cloth assemblage and screenprint on panel

Poppy George, 2019, drypoint etchings

Sam Mitchell, 2019, paper construction

Sam Mitchell, 2019, paper construction

Demi Viljoen, 2019, stencil relief print on paper

Demi Viljoen, 2019, stencil relief print on fabric

SITE 2018

Congratulations to our graduating students who participated in Dunedin School of Art’s SITE 2018 Kirsty Lewry (BVA Honours), Kipp Richards (BVA), Maisie Robinson (BVA) and to Michaela Joy who completed her BVA this year. You all put a lot of work into your final results and we will miss your busy and colourful studio presence. All the best for your future endeavors!

Kipp, Kirsty and Maisie’s studio spaces

Kirsty’s work draws on the art of ikebana but instead of flowers she uses vegetables. Her techniques involve digital still life using both the real and printed cutout to question notions of hyperreality. Digital light boxes made using finely crafted cardboard, including one with a moving image (TV screen) background are used to display her works.

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Kipp’s practice engages with the historical Constructivist movement and his passion for photographing local modernist architecture. His photographs combine with geometric shapes, layers and colour that are screenprinted or stencilled to produce ‘street style’ works.

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Wallpaper and the disruption of scale was the concept that drove Maisie’s project. The two wallpapers she produced at both full size and scaled within a dolls house used everyday objects of a comb and a teacup (a nod to Meret Oppenheim’s fur teacup), creating a surrealist vibe. The multiple full size wallpaper strips cascaded down the wall and onto the floor.

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Keeping it hyperreal

Making their mark