Milly Macphail’s No Scrubs “fun and
flirty” fashion collection.
Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design graduands Jesse Sadlier and Harley Poultney.
Music students Nick Castles and John Lewis perform at Crab Farm Winery.
EIT’s ideaschool recently celebrated creative endeavour with a fortnight of events showcasing the year’s best work by students.
Hawke’s Bay’s emerging fashion talents wowed a capacity crowd as their designs took to the catwalk for a show staged in EIT’s Trades Complex.
Individuality flourished in the work of first and second year students and, as in past years, the evening’s spectacular finale was the collections created by students completing the two-year certificate.
“Their work wasn’t predictable,” says fashion programme coordinator Cheryl Downie. “We encourage students to find their own design aesthetic and develop that.”
A highlight of the Diploma in Screen Production year was the premiere of second-year students’ movies held at Napier’s MTG.
The programme requires students to create and direct an original short film as their major final-year project.
The first students to complete New Zealand’s first project-based learning arts and design degree displayed the cream of their work in ‘A Feast for the Senses’ graduate exhibition at the CAN Community Arts Centre in Napier.
The largest graduating class for EIT’s three-year Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design degree, the cohort of 34 students exhibited paintings, sculptures, limited edition prints and other works.
The swan song for this year’s Certificate in Contemporary Music Performance students was a show at Crab Farm Winery. The Bay View winery show was the final of eight public performances staged throughout the year by students grouped into bands to learn theory, practise, rehearse and perform eight genres of music.