Browsing Design and Visual Arts Dissertations and Theses by Type of Research "Masters Thesis"
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Agar Agar : a practice and theory of cultural hybridity in contemporary art
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: What can auto-ethnography and the concepts of Agar Agar and hybridity contribute to a contemporary art practice? ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to explore the ideas of Agar Agar and ... -
Apentimento
(2021)INTRODUCTION: I started this masters project (like most painters I believe) because I needed a studio. I like to have a studio because I value time away from people and because I enjoy the challenge of painting. Painting ... -
Beyond documentary : an investigation into the benefits of collaborative multi media story telling techniques
(2010)How can the utilisation of multimedia technology combined with collaboration with subjects enhance the practice of documentary for photographers? This Masters of Design by Project is focused on photographic documentary ... -
Co-designing primary learning space in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2017-03)Research Question: How can co-design assist students at a bicultural primary school in central Auckland transition into a ”Modern” or ”Innovative” learning environment (MLE/ILE)? New Zealand’s Ministry of Education ... -
Courtship : a photographic investigation of romantic engagement
(2011)RESEARCH QUESTION: How is contemporary romantic courtship evolving with reference to the influence of fairy tale convention? The research title of my project is: Courtship: A photographic investigation of romantic ... -
Designing the Shaw 9 metre: How does the process of design inform the development of a 9 metre racing yacht?
(2011)This aim of this project was to explore how the process of yacht design informed the development of a 9 metre racing yacht with a canting keel. It explores the interrelationship of art and science in the process of developing ... -
'droplet' : [how can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?]
(2020-11-27)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?’ ABSTRACT: I am an artist exploring mixed media practices, including photography and ... -
Everyday liminality
(2014)This painting project commenced through the activity of re-examining my previous practice, which prompted the desire to focus on the activity of painting through the plasticity of oil paint. The intention to focus on ... -
Exploring whānau knowledge and hybridity through typographical design
(2020)This exegesis documents and accounts for the development of a body text typeface designed by me, a hybrid practitioner. Using a practice-based approach with a focus on auto-ethnography, my research explores my own experiences ... -
Floating bodies : reconciling image and object through drawing
(2014)This exegesis plots the course of the Floating Bodies project and its ambition to examine climate change iconography through a reconciliation of Image and Object. From an initial polarity, in both concept and outcome, ... -
Flowers in a contemporary painting practice
(2013)This project originated from a cornucopia of personal experiences that informed a perspective shaped by a life growing up surrounded by flowers in the context of a large creative family and a domestic-craft background. ... -
Fragmentation and the found in the production of contemporary jewellery
(2012)A Masters of Design by Research project that asks the question: “How can materials and histories be linked by a methodology of making that utilises fragmentation and the found?” Focussed primarily on the production ... -
He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua
(2015)TE POU KŌRERO – ABSTRACT This exegesis documents the journey of He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua, a moving image and sound project, expressing the significance of bicultural experiences in bilingual units within ... -
Horological furniture: An investigation into temporal form
(2011)Research Question: How can temporality be used to develop new strategies for the design of furniture? This exegesis documents the journey through my Masters of Design project Horological Furniture. An artefact’s ... -
Ideal worlds : an investigation into the role fantasy plays in constructing imagery for visual practitioners within the context of contemporary painting
(2010)This research aims to investigate how archetypal imagery, as seen in the literature of fantasy and mythology, can inform procedures for constructing contemporary painting within the figurative and abstract elements. -
An investigation of interiority : beyond the boundaries of subject and into the practIce of painting
(2013)This document charts a painter’s intention to evolve ambiguous and geographically indeterminate spaces that are potentially neither inside nor outside, public or private that are constructed from two dimensional images, ... -
Justmytype: An exploration of documentary filmmaking for New Zealand typographic education
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can an online multi-part documentary series on perspectives and approaches to typography be used as an educational resource to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject? ABSTRACT The purpose ... -
Keeping watch : fabricating a space of hesitation
(2018)In 2011 the MV Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Stacks of containers fell from the ship and household goods, industrial items and oil washed into the sea coating beaches and birds. ... -
The knot not and the knot now
(2014)Chapter one discusses the role of craft in my art practice, and the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach. The next chapter centres around the idea that art can be a simple process of stripping away the detritus ... -
[Liberation by desecration]
(2011)This research aims to investigate how pictorial conventions used in a previous generation of expressionist painting (1980’s post avant-garde) can be reconstituted and appropriated to develop a contemporary painting practice. ...