Study creative arts

Having previously spent some years in the UK teaching and playing music Chris returned to New Zealand to follow his creative passion for film and character-based storytelling.

Chris’s major project is a series of original videos ‘Lance What Have You Done?’, which he wrote, developed, directed, and acted in. This series subsequently won him the prestigious Screen Production and Development Association (SPADA) South Pacific Pictures Big Pitch Award in 2017.

Chris Chalmers
Bachelor of Creative Media Production

In 2017 Yoshi was selected to take part in the Graduate Show at New Zealand Fashion Week, where she showed her final collection ‘kiru’. This collection brought notions of the kimono into a contemporary context, and was seen by hundreds of international media and industry representatives. Yoshi is now employed in the design team at New Zealand sustainable fashion label KowTow.hundreds of international media and industry representatives.

Yoshi is now employed in the design team at New Zealand sustainable fashion label Kowtow.

Yoshino Muruyama
Bachelor of Design with Honours (Fashion Design)

As an actress wanting to study, Massey University’s distance programme was the obvious choice.

Antonia Prebble
Bachelor of Arts (English)

Chev found his strength in bringing together his art and his whakapapa. With a passion for cultural identity and social ethnography, his emerging creative career has involved advertising, journalism, mural and documentary projects.

In 2017 he won the Ngā Manu Pīrere award for emerging Māori artists at Te Waka Toi Awards.

Chevron Te Whetumatarau Hassett
Bachelor of Design (Hons) (Photography)

Sydney is passionate about exploring embellishment and texture for fashion apparel, finding inspiration in both the natural and scientific worlds and often combining them in her garments. She’s planning to study her Masters in Textile Design soon but is taking time out to develop a line of wearable jewellery that explores the sculptural magnetic forms she created for her final year collection.

Sydney Lash
Bachelor of Design with Honours (Textile Design)

After graduating Kate worked at Wellington’s Storyshed information design agency, helping develop complex information sets for significant Wellington and Auckland clients, before heading to Australia where she worked as the in-house designer for a property company. In 2018 she began her Master's in Communication Design at Melbourne’s RMIT. She aims to complete her Master's in Communication Design at Melbourne’s RMIT in 2018.

Kate Baxter
Bachelor of Design (Hons) (Visual Communication Design)

Isabella took a round about route to her career as an artist, having first started her studies in veterinary science, before moving onto design, and finally committing to fine art.

Since graduating Isabella has exhibited at Toi Poneke with her solo show ‘I do not want to be a fool’, and in a group show ‘The Tomorrow People’ at the Adam Art gallery, and at the Auckland Art Fair.

Isabella Loudon
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons)

“When I started I was really passionate about painting but the course offered other art forms like photography and media studies which meant that over the years my passion changed and I started creating videos.” After graduating Puawai went on to become one of the presenters on iconic youth TV show Pukana and has a growing online audience for her ‘Hey Puawai’ videos. She credits her success to the course that awakened her passion for performance art.

Puawai Taiapa-Aporo
Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts

In 2017 Elleana was awarded the Commercial Music Scholarship Award which gave her the opportunity to intern with J&A Productions, the event managers behind the annual Vodafone Music Awards. This enabled her to shadow the organisers backstage, adding invaluable experience to her portfolio. This was the perfect opportunity to launch her career in the field of live events and curation.

Elleana Dumper
Bachelor of Commercial Music