From the streets of Christchurch at the Parade to Autumn Graduation celebrations 🎓✨
Congratulations to our incredible Arts graduates, we can’t wait to see what you do next 💛
That feeling when everything pays off 🦋🎓✨
It was awesome to see graduates, whānau and the Ōtautahi community come together for our Graduation Street Parade today, filling the city with celebration, pride and plenty of noise.
We also celebrated our Faculties of Arts and Law graduates this afternoon, marking another milestone in an unforgettable day.
@uc_arts@uc_law #UCGrads
This week we tested how well Professor Mark Menzies (with the aid of double-bass student Quinn) knows his students by their playing alone...as an added challenge, the students also swapped instruments 🎻
We’re proud to see Dr John Vea from @uc_arts representing the University of Canterbury at @nextarttainan 2026 in Taiwan 🇹🇼 (12 March – 12 April).
The exhibition brings together emerging Taiwanese artists and international practitioners, creating space for new curatorial perspectives and cross-cultural dialogue.
John is presenting 96 degrees in the shade (2024), a durational moving-image installation that unfolds over the course of a working day, first developed for the Busan Biennale 2024. The work follows the repeated assembly and disassembly of a mobile shoe-shine kiosk across a working day, performed under shifting shade. Through this simple action, the piece reflects on impermanence, labour, and shelter, asking who has access to rest, protection, and visibility.
In the context of rising global temperatures, it also draws attention to the growing vulnerability of workers whose labour is exposed to the elements.
It’s exciting to see UC artists contributing to international conversations about art, labour, and climate through exhibitions like this.
#UniversityofCanterbury #UCArts #UCInternational #NextArtTainan
Congratulations to UC Fine Arts graduate, Miranda Parkes for being announced as the Zonta Ashburton Women's Art Awards (ZAWAA) Premier Award Winner 2026!
ZAWAA seeks to raise the status of visual artists who identify as women and to acknowledge the contributions women make to the greater art discourse. Congratulations to all of our Fine Arts students and graduates who were part of this years exhibition; Julia Holdernesss, Marie Lawrence, Jane Bowman, Kate McIntyre, Miranda Parkes, Jan Robertson, Rebecca Stewart, Shannon Williamson, and Sophie Wood
Image reposted from @ashburtonartgallery , Miranda with her winning work, 'dreamchaser', alongside judges Kim Pieters, Bridie Lonie, and Anna McLean.
Congratulations to UC Fine Arts students Rose Major, Madeline Hann, and C J Maglaqui who are included in Linwood Arts Eastside Gallery's highly regarded annual exhibition for artists who are new, or nearly new, to exhibiting 👏
The exhibition opened Tuesday night and continues until March 28th. This not-to-be-missed exhibition showcases impressive local talent across a wide range of media.
Location: 388 Worcester St, free parking and entry.
Opening Hours: Wed-Thu: 11am-5pm | Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm
@linwood.arts.eastside.gallery
Congrats to UC Fine Arts alum Claudia Long who is curating the first exhibition at CoCA for 2026!
'CHOMP: The Paste-ups of Earwig Magazine', features original paste-up artwork from Earwig (1969-1973), an underground magazine created by John Milne. Curated by Claudia Long.
📅 21 February – 29 March
"Prior to the introduction of the desktop computer, paste-ups were created by graphic designers to place typography and imagery into multi-layer compositions that would be combined in print to form a final page design. The evidence of the human hands behind the design of Earwig communicates care and effort that is uncommon in many design practices today. To physically plan and construct a paste-up design exercises a level of thought, craft and complexity that is at odds with the resources, space, and time available in our contemporary world." - Claudia Long.
In revisiting this past practice through the lens of a designer in the current age of computer automation and AI, this exhibition aims to highlight the slow manual craft of analogue design and how it could be used to subvert the digital mainstream of mass generation, producing work with real meaning and agency.
With thanks to the Heather Knowles Collection, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.
@uc_arts@clauds__long@ucnz@cocatoimoroki
Ancient Greece. LEGO. Maths. Engineering.
Sounds unlikely? 🏛️🧱
Discover Bricks of Olympus at UC’s Teece Museum — you’ll want to see this one.
#Lego #Legomasters #UCNZ
Lots of exciting things are happening behind the scenes to prepare for Bricks of Olympus. Take a sneak peak as parts of this exciting new creation by LEGO® Masters NZ stars Jake Roos and Emily Fryer come to life!
Join us from January 15 to experiance the full model in person!
#BricksOfOlympus
