Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury

Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury The Ilam School of Fine Arts incorporates the Ilam Campus Gallery as well as a number of student led

TOMORROW - Friday 29 May we are ending Term Two by opening up our second and third year painting studios to the general ...
28/05/2026

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 wha...
27/05/2026

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 I...
25/05/2026

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 sc...
13/05/2026

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 Power2 May 2026 – 6 September 2026This exhibition brings together a group of major works from the Dunedin Public...
06/05/2026

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 ƌtepoti Pasifika Arts Collective (ƌPAC).

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 Kaikƍura ...
01/05/2026

teEau de Plume is a new exhibition by UC photography lecturer Conor Clarke exploring the sensory landscape the Kaikƍura TÄ«tÄ« (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 show...
29/04/2026

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 ƌtautahi 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

Cycles of Return, an exhibition by UC Fine Arts graduates, Sarah Rowlands and Wendy Clarke, opens this Saturday April 4t...
02/04/2026

Cycles of Return, an exhibition by UC Fine Arts graduates, Sarah Rowlands and Wendy Clarke, opens this Saturday April 4th at 4pm.

Wendy Clarke and Sarah Rowland’s practices explore photographic processes and presentations, to present the viewer with interpretations of the natural environment as seen through two distinct lenses.
Wendy Clarke is a Whakaraupo/Lyttelton Harbour resident; her work reflects her experience of living in a landscape that bears both the scars and beauty of human intervention. Through photographic sculptural works she investigates our interaction with nature, prompting reflection on sustainable practices and the possibility of a circular economy between human activity and environmental conservation.

Sarah Rowlands is an ƌtautahi based photographic artist who explores the entanglement of humanity and the post-colonial natural environment, through conventional and alternative photographic mediums. Notions of time passing, perception of landscape and detailed studies of botanical species, invite viewers to consider their place and role within the fragile future of the natural world.

Please join is this Saturday for the opening of Cycles of Return at Stoddart Cottage Gallery.

Cycles of Return, an exhibition by UC Fine Arts graduates, Sarah Rowlands and Wendy Clarke, opens this Saturday April 4t...
02/04/2026

Cycles of Return, an exhibition by UC Fine Arts graduates, Sarah Rowlands and Wendy Clarke, opens this Saturday April 4th at 4pm.

Wendy Clarke and Sarah Rowland’s practices explore photographic processes and presentations, to present the viewer with interpretations of the natural environment as seen through two distinct lenses.

Wendy Clarke is a Whakaraupo/Lyttelton Harbour resident; her work reflects her experience of living in a landscape that bears both the scars and beauty of human intervention. Through photographic sculptural works she investigates our interaction with nature, prompting reflection on sustainable practices and the possibility of a circular economy between human activity and environmental conservation.

Sarah Rowlands is an ƌtautahi based photographic artist who explores the entanglement of humanity and the post-colonial natural environment, through conventional and alternative photographic mediums. Notions of time passing, perception of landscape and detailed studies of botanical species, invite viewers to consider their place and role within the fragile future of the natural world.

Please join is this Saturday for the opening of Cycles of Return at Stoddart Cottage Gallery.

Stoddart Cottage Gallery

The 2026 Aotearoa Art Fair is happening in Auckland on 30 April - 3 May. As part of the events programming, UC Fine Arts...
31/03/2026

The 2026 Aotearoa Art Fair is happening in Auckland on 30 April - 3 May.

As part of the events programming, UC Fine Arts lecturer Steve Carr will be giving a curated view tour of the fair on Friday 1 May at 2:30pm.

Register via the Art Fair website.

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