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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	Title	Award date	Programme
Fox, Tom	Altered neuro states	2019-12-03	MFA
McLachlan, Charlotte	Animal inside	2021-02-26	MFA
Trbuhović, Matthew	Arrested movement	2021-04-22	MFA
Rzepecky, Charlie	BEAST	2021-05-07	MVA
Boyle, Antonia	Bloom	2019-04-29	MFA
Rowe, Liz	Every minute is precious	2022-02-25	MFA
Jones, Alice	Fairy tales (The dark side)	2021-07-01	MVA
Fleming, Debbie	Heavy luggage: Climate change cultural identity and art activism	2020-02-28	MVA
Broughton, Coral	Hidden in plain sight	2020-08-21	MVA
Cameron, Rebecca (Becky)	Immersed: Case studies in art and ecology	2022-02-25	MFA
Cook, Linda	Incandescent molecules: An analytical investigation into materiality in contemporary abstract painting	2023-03-03
Donnelly, Caitlin	Māmā	2021-02-26	MFA
Lowe, Neil	Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze	2023-11-07	MFA
Muggeridge, Andrea	Muggeridgian Solids: A visual perspective of mathematics	2019-04-12	MVA
McKay, Sarah	Possession	2021-04-20	MFA
Smith, Joseph	Punk and pop surrealism	2021-04-22	MFA
Pitman, Sarah	Resonance in blue	2023-02-24	MFA
Gordon, Emily	Seen, unseen	2020-09-01	MFA
Mohring, Bronwyn	The Ageing of Little Red	2022-08-26	MFA
Watts, Kate	The girl who never threw anything away	2019-08-30	MVA
Miller, Pippi	The Halloween Party	2023-02-24	MFA
Kennedy, Tracy	The sensory topography of cloth: Soft armour and worn stories	2021-07-01	MVA
Wilkinson, Michelle	The sixth: A jeweller's participatory artistic exploration of extinction and biodiversity loss in New Zealand	2019-04-29	MFA
Swale, Simon	The way we lived?	2020-04-24	MFA
Griffiths, Megan	Threads of survival	2020-02-28	MFA
Brown, Lissie	Unpicking the blanket: Escaping the bed we were made to lie in	2023-02-24	MFA