Art research submissions
Both our Master of Fine Arts and Master of Visual Arts programmes enable students to increase the professionalism of their art practice and their capacity for independent work. Students can specialise in any of eight specific studio areas: Ceramics; Electronic arts; Jewellery and Metalsmithing; Print; Photography; Painting; Sculpture and Textiles. The major component of students' research submission is an exhibition of original art work.
We are New Zealand’s oldest public art school, founded in 1870. Master of Fine Art dissertations prior to 2019 can be accessed through the University of Otago's Robertson Library.
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) dissertations and Master of Visual Arts (MVA) essays
| Author | Boyle, Antonia |
| Title | Bloom |
| Award date | 2019-04-29 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Broughton, Coral |
| Title | Hidden in plain sight |
| Award date | 2020-08-21 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Brown, Lissie |
| Title | Unpicking the blanket: Escaping the bed we were made to lie in |
| Award date | 2023-02-24 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Cameron, Rebecca (Becky) |
| Title | Immersed: Case studies in art and ecology |
| Award date | 2022-02-25 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Cook, Linda |
| Title | Incandescent molecules: An analytical investigation into materiality in contemporary abstract painting |
| Award date | 2023-03-03 |
| Programme |
| Author | Donnelly, Caitlin |
| Title | Māmā |
| Award date | 2021-02-26 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Fleming, Debbie |
| Title | Heavy luggage: Climate change cultural identity and art activism |
| Award date | 2020-02-28 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Fox, Tom |
| Title | Altered neuro states |
| Award date | 2019-12-03 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Gordon, Emily |
| Title | Seen, unseen |
| Award date | 2020-09-01 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Griffiths, Megan |
| Title | Threads of survival |
| Award date | 2020-02-28 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Jones, Alice |
| Title | Fairy tales (The dark side) |
| Award date | 2021-07-01 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Kennedy, Tracy |
| Title | The sensory topography of cloth: Soft armour and worn stories |
| Award date | 2021-07-01 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Lowe, Neil |
| Title | Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze |
| Award date | 2023-11-07 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | McKay, Sarah |
| Title | Possession |
| Award date | 2021-04-20 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | McLachlan, Charlotte |
| Title | Animal inside |
| Award date | 2021-02-26 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Miller, Pippi |
| Title | The Halloween Party |
| Award date | 2023-02-24 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Mohring, Bronwyn |
| Title | The Ageing of Little Red |
| Award date | 2022-08-26 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Muggeridge, Andrea |
| Title | Muggeridgian Solids: A visual perspective of mathematics |
| Award date | 2019-04-12 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Pitman, Sarah |
| Title | Resonance in blue |
| Award date | 2023-02-24 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Rowe, Liz |
| Title | Every minute is precious |
| Award date | 2022-02-25 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Rzepecky, Charlie |
| Title | BEAST |
| Award date | 2021-05-07 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Smith, Joseph |
| Title | Punk and pop surrealism |
| Award date | 2021-04-22 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Swale, Simon |
| Title | The way we lived? |
| Award date | 2020-04-24 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Trbuhović, Matthew |
| Title | Arrested movement |
| Award date | 2021-04-22 |
| Programme | MFA |
| Author | Watts, Kate |
| Title | The girl who never threw anything away |
| Award date | 2019-08-30 |
| Programme | MVA |
| Author | Wilkinson, Michelle |
| Title | The sixth: A jeweller's participatory artistic exploration of extinction and biodiversity loss in New Zealand |
| Award date | 2019-04-29 |
| Programme | MFA |
