Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury

UC Fine Arts student Jack Banks (Hons. Moving Image) will be performing in TinyFest's INTERxCHANGE programme this Saturday (20th June) with the Addington Brass Band.

Jack's work will be entry by koha through Humanitix or door sales. Head to the Bus Interchange at 10.30am this Saturday to board 'Band on the Bus'!

It was great to hear from four of our UC Fine Arts students at the Murray & Co emerging artist talk where they each have artworks on display. This is the 12th year that Murray & Co have run this initiative.

UC painting lecturer Raewyn Martyn led a conversation with the artists Ashleigh Min, George French, Phoebe Rouse, and Xinran Yu about what inspires them, the ideas behind the pieces on display and their future intentions as artists.

A huge thank you to Murray & Co for providing this opportunity ✨

Celebrating student success - congratulations to Neve Vangioni who has received the Jane Rounick Memorial Award!

The Jane Rounick Memorial Award recipient is selected by the Council of the University of Canterbury upon the recommendation of a selection committee including one representative of the Jane Rounick family.

Congratultations Neve!

Image: still from Neve's moving image work, SLOP MANIFESTO

University of Canterbury

TOMORROW - Friday 29 May we are ending Term Two by opening up our second and third year painting studios to the general public!

Friday 29 May
12pm - 1pm
Fine Arts Block 3

Come along to celebrate and see what our painting students have been working on this term 🎨

Come along to our Moving Image students' end-of-semester exhibition! Have a drink and a snack while you enjoy seeing what our students have been working on this semester.

Friday, 29 May
5:01pm - 7:01pm
Fine Arts Block 1

UC Fine Arts’ third-year painting students invite you to their exhibition First Impression | Turps Space Block 2

‘First Impression’ emerges from performance and action, exploring gesture through monotype. Beginning from a shared process, pairs enacted experimental approaches to plate, press, and paper. Situated between painterly and printmaking practices, the exhibition considers gesture as relational, immediate, and responsive. In its transient exchanges, ‘First Impression’ captures process in motion, where touch, pressure, and encounter become image.

Exhibition runs until 5pm Thursday 28th.

Our second and third-year Moving Image students were at The Physics room this week for a curators floor talk and film screening of Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition 'B42040A1A1A'. Thanks for having us Physics Room!

Staying Power
2 May 2026 – 6 September 2026

This exhibition brings together a group of major works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection by artists from Te Moana Nui a Kiwa (the Pacific). Each artwork employs performance as a central element, using the body, physicality of movement, endurance, and the action and outcome of labour to draw audiences into the artists’ ideas and experiences.

Staying Power includes works by UC School of Fine Arts lecturer John Vea, alongside Kalisolaite ‘Uhila and Angela Tiatia, as well as a project developed in collaboration with the Ōtepoti Pasifika Arts Collective (ŌPAC).

https://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/present/staying-power/

teEau de Plume is a new exhibition by UC photography lecturer Conor Clarke exploring the sensory landscape the Kaikōura Tītī (Hutton’s Shearwater) navigate by.

In this exhibition, Clarke’s photographs of seascapes (or “scentscapes”, as the artist calls them) envision scent-led wayfinding, reflecting on seabirds’ highly attuned olfactory and navigational abilities, as well as the process of foraging for knowledge and making art in response. The seascapes carry the scent of DMS, evoking these birds’ ability to wayfind, forage, and migrate across the ocean, which is often described as ‘vast’, ‘featureless’, or ‘void-like’ due to an absence of visual landmarks. Tube-nosed seabirds such as shearwaters, petrels, and albatrosses, however, are known to rely on odour cues, ‘scent maps’, and memory to navigate at sea and to locate individual burrows when homing in the dark.

Artist
Conor Clarke (Aotearoa NZ)

Curator
Andrew Kennedy

Location
Te Tuhi
21 William Roberts Road, Pakuranga
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2010

Presented in association with
Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival 2026

Head along to 'One Wall', an exhibition at CoCA supporting a cohort of seven emerging Waitaha Canterbury artists to showcase their work on CoCA’s annex wall.

11 April - 18 December

Between April and December, one artist + one wall + one work enables a four week rotation of local artists with diverse practices to share work with our Ōtautahi community.

Exhibiting artists in this cohort include: Nicholas Burry, Marie Porter, Evelyn Fink, Jamie Price, Lily-Rose Claypole, Sarah Rowlands and Anna Bruce.

This initiative is supported through the Christchurch City Council’s Creative Communities Scheme.

Image:
Nicholas Burry
Memory Form. Landfall in Canterbury
Oil on bituminous paper
1545mm x 1045mm
2022