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Passionate well-nigh art? Our visual arts prepares y'all for the demands of a career in contemporary art, whether as an artist or in the many other roles inside the art sector.

Written report visual arts and enjoy a student-centred and studio-based plan where yous tin  follow your interests in fine art - including drawing, printmaking, digital art, sculpture, moving epitome, analogue and digital photography, installation, sound, painting, performance, fine art and engineering science, social and customs-based art practices.

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• Entry requirements
• Pathways & minors
• What you written report
• Career opportunities
• Related programmes

Minimum entry requirements

• University Entrance
• Portfolio of art piece of work

Portfolio guidelines: applying to study fine art and design

International student entry requirements

Preferential entry

You lot may be eligible for preferential entry if:

• Yous are a current Year thirteen student at a NZ secondary school, and
• You have accomplished NCEA Level 2 with Excellence endorsement overall and with an Excellence endorsement in one or more approved art, design or engineering science subjects, or
• You take achieved an A grade in iii subjects at AS level, and an A or B AS form in one or more approved art, blueprint or technology subjects in the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).

This ways you won't need to submit a portfolio of art or design work. If you believe you are eligible for preferential entry, apply online and submit your application without a portfolio.

English requirements

• IELTS (Academic) 6.0 overall with all bands 5.5 or higher; or equivalent

English language linguistic communication requirements

Useful New Zealand school subjects

Classical Studies, Computing, Construction and Mechanical Technologies, Blueprint (Practical Art), Design and Visual Communication, Digital Technologies or Hangarau Matihiko, English, Geography, Hangarau, Hauora, Health, History, History of Art, Mathematics/Pāngarau, Media Studies, Music Studies, Ngā Mahi a Rēhia, Ngā Toi, Ngā Toi Ataata, Ngā Toi Puoro, Painting (Practical Art), Pāngarau, Photography (Practical Art), Physics, Printmaking (Practical Art), Processing Technologies, Psychology, Pūtaiao/Science, Sculpture (Applied Art), Technology/Hangarau, Te Ao Haka, Te Reo Māori, Te Reo Rangatira, Applied science, Visual Arts

Don't meet the entry requirements?

Transferring to AUT (recognition of prior learning)

Yous may be eligible to enter Year 2 or Year 3 of our visual arts degree if you lot have completed all or part of a design or visual arts caste at some other approved tertiary institution. Applications for cross-credits will normally exist assessed after you lot receive an offer of place for Te Tohu Paetahi o Toi Ataata – Bachelor of Visual Arts.

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In the visual arts degree you tin can specialise in i of 3 pathways:

Explore the breadth of the expanded field of sculpture in gimmicky art. You'll be encouraged to develop individual approaches to your making through experimental and open-concluded investigative methods.

There'south a strong focus on the exploration of sculptural concepts and ideas driving gimmicky fine art; object making, installation, operation and social art practices.

What this pathway covers

• Casting
• Metal fabrication and wood construction
• Digital fabrication including 3D printing, laser cutting, virtual 3D modelling and CNC etching
• Post-digital and post-object practices, which include video, sound, performance, social practices, net systems, physical calculating, AI and other speculative practices

You'll appoint with gimmicky scholarship concerning sculpture inclusive of materiality, fourth dimension, contingent objects, space, site and identify, to become a critically informed and socially engaged practitioner who works as confidently with new technologies as with traditional processes.

You'll arroyo image making as a process that involves the interaction between visual qualities, ideas, technologies and media. Using media and technologies in ways that suit your inventive purposes, you'll then develop a territory of interest for art making.

Participate in workshops and seminars on painting concepts and techniques, printmaking concepts and techniques, studio practice and how to work with ideas and images, and on the critical analysis of works of art.

What this pathway covers

• Cartoon
• Relief
• Intaglio
• Screen and digital printing
• Painting supports, materials and techniques
• Fabric printing
• Virtual reality drawing/painting
• Bookbinding

You lot'll engage with contemporary scholarship concerning painting and printmaking including:

• Representation
• Colour
• Figuration
• Relationship to photographic and mediated images
• Histories of painting and printmaking

Develop an independent lens-based direction from a foundation of learning in photographic theory and technical learning.

You'll piece of work with a broad range of high-end equipment and facilities, including large format analogue photography, studio lighting and digital processes that include moving image work. By questioning what photography is and how it operates in the world today, yous'll develop a photographic art practice that is critical and current.

What this pathway covers

• Digital camera engineering (including DSLR and medium format)
• Analogue photographic camera engineering science (including pinhole, medium and big format)
• Primal photographic technical processes (including exposure, colour temperature, low-cal metering, focus)
• Studio flash lighting
• Digital scanning
• Picture processing
• Darkroom printing
• Digital printing
• Digital video photographic camera engineering
• Video editing
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Digital stitching
• Moving image
• Photographic installation

You lot'll engage with contemporary scholarship concerning photographic representation, portraiture and documentary; the relationships between moving image and installation practice, photography and video's relationship to ideas of time, race, colonial histories and decolonisation.

Minors

You can study the following minors when you are enrolled in AUT's blueprint or visual arts caste:

• Blithe Drawing
• Cinematic Arts
• Contemporary Pacific
• Creative Entrepreneurship
• Design for Health

• Design for Social and Environmental Justice
• Design Thinking
• Digital Fabrication
• Experimental Surface Pattern
• Extended Reality

• In Print: Publishing Practices
• Motion Capture
• Photographic Practise
• Temporary Practices/Temporary Publics

Animated Drawing

Explore the process and materiality of animated drawing as a means for ideation and creative expression.

The minor has a studio lab component where you lot'll examine different animated drawing practices, including life drawing, and produce brusque blithe films, installations, motion graphics, comics, graphic novels and movie books.

Courses are delivered over one semester for each form and are worth 15 points each. You lot'll demand to consummate lx points for the entire minor. In each year, y'all written report and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the small that you have selected.

Bachelor as a modest only.

Minor must include

threescore points from the following courses:

• ARDN540 Introduction to Cartoon, Motion and Animation
• ARDN640 Drawing and Storytelling
• ARDN641 Drawing for Motion
• ARDN740 Animated Drawing Projection

Cinematic Arts

Notice the possibilities of filmmaking through analogue and digital cinematography, sound recording and audio pattern, editing and post-product, storytelling and manufacture workflow, to make a brusk narrative, experimental or documentary film.

Courses are delivered over one semester for each form and are worth fifteen points each. You'll need to complete lx points for the entire small-scale. In each year, yous study and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the small-scale that yous have selected.

Available equally a minor only.

Minor must include

60 points from the following courses:

• ARDN501 The Fundamentals of Filmmaking
• ARDN603 Cinematic Process
• ARDN604 Motion picture Preproduction
• ARDN701 Film Production

Contemporary Pacific

Develop your creative practice cartoon on contemporary and traditional Pacific concepts, contexts and cloth civilization. Pacific concepts and stories are explored in relation to pattern, movement, and spatial systems.

Courses are delivered over i semester for each course and are worth 15 points each. You'll need to complete 60 points for the entire minor. In each year, you written report and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the small-scale that y'all have selected.

Available equally a minor but.

Minor must include

60 points from the following courses:

• ARDN514 Pattern Systems
• ARDN629 Movement Systems
• ARDN630 Spatial Systems
• ARDN714 Contemporary Pacific Project

Creative Entrepreneurship

Blueprint for Health

Tomorrow'due south health and wellbeing will be driven by those who can employ creative and practical problem-solving skills to complex issues. This minor offers a fresh perspective through collaborative and cooperative tools, skills and mindsets. You lot'll design for positive social bear on and atomic number 82 transformative change in health and wellbeing.

Courses are delivered over one semester for each class and are worth xv points each. Yous'll need to complete threescore points for the entire minor. In each year, yous study and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the minor that yous take selected.

Available equally a pocket-sized only.

Minor must include

lx points from the post-obit courses:

• DESN513 Healthy Futures: Adept Wellness Blueprint
• DESN613 Designing with Care
• DESN614 Design for Social and Emotional Wellbeing
• DESN713 Reimagining the Future of Health Together

Design for Social and Environmental Justice

Design Thinking

Design thinking is a mindset and set of artistic methods that tin can exist used to interrogate, empathise and solve real-life business organisation, social and ecology problems. You lot'll develop an understanding of the needs of the people you're designing for, experiment and explore creative ideas, and create design solutions.

Courses are delivered over one semester for each course and are worth fifteen points each. You'll need to complete sixty points for the entire minor. In each yr, you study and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the pocket-sized that you have selected.

This pocket-sized is aimed at students who are interested in developing design thinking expertise to support their major discipline area.

Modest must include

60 points from courses listed below including DESN501 with at least 15 points at level vii

• DESN501 Creativity and Design Thinking
• DESN600 Design Thinking Practices
• DESN604 Pattern Storytelling
• DESN705 Designing Thinking Projection
• DESN706 Blueprint Your Future

Digital Fabrication

Explore how digital fabrication can facilitate fine art and pattern creative practices, through the utilisation

and application of a range of current and emergent technologies.

Courses are delivered over one semester for each grade and are worth xv points each. Y'all'll demand to complete lx points for the entire minor. In each year, you lot study and consummate core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the minor that yous have selected.

Enrolment in this minor is subject to approval from the Fine art & Blueprint Minors, Head of Department.

Available as a minor just.

Minor must include

60 points from the post-obit courses:

• ARDN505 Digital Foundations
• ARDN609 Emergent Origins
• ARDN610 Remediating Emergence
• ARDN705 Digital Fabrication Project

Experimental Surface Design

Get involved in the experimental development of surface practice beyond a range of disciplines and potential applications. This small emphasises the importance of learning through making and the human relationship between the maker, the materials, the process of making and the work.

Students develop conceptual and technical surface design knowledge through applied materials practice.

Courses are delivered over one semester for each course and are worth 15 points each. Y'all'll need to consummate sixty points for the entire minor. In each year, you'll study and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the minor that you take selected.

Enrolment in this minor is subject field to approval from the Art & Design Minors, Caput of Department.

Bachelor equally a minor only.

Minor must include

sixty points from the following courses:

• ARDN517 Material Processes
• ARDN633 Towards Tactility
• ARDN634 Dynamics of Scale
• ARDN717 Contextual Resolution

Extended Reality

In Print: Publishing Practices

Motility Capture

Explore movement capture (mocap) engineering that records man movement equally 3D data for use in a range of blueprint and creative disciplines.

Courses are delivered over i semester for each course and are worth 15 points each. You'll demand to complete 60 points for the entire modest. In each yr, you study and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the pocket-sized that you have selected.

Enrolment in this minor is subject to approval from the Fine art & Design Minors, Head of Department.

Available equally a minor merely.

Modest must include

60 points from the following courses:

• DIGD506 Introduction to Move Capture
• DIGD605 Visualising Motion Capture
• DIGD606 Performance Capture
• DIGD707 Motion Capture Project

Photographic Practice

Detect visual conventions and develop technical competencies to include DSLR camera fundamentals, exposure and lighting command, composition principles and image making strategies for project outcomes.

Courses are delivered over ane semester for each form and are worth 15 points each. You'll need to complete 60 points for the entire minor. In each year, you study and complete core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the minor that y'all take selected.

Enrolment in this minor is discipline to approval from the Fine art & Blueprint Minors, Caput of Department.

Available as a small-scale only.

Minor must include

60 points from the following courses:

• ARDN516 The Photographic Paradigm
• ARDN631 The Interpreted Epitome
• ARDN632 The Manipulated Image
• ARDN716 The Directed Image

Temporary Practices/Temporary Publics

As artists and designers, we are interested in practising by making – doing projects that have currency and real-world capacity. Nosotros work through ideas of site, collaboration and publication in order to create events. Temporary Practices is an experimental, creative field of making. This minor supports the development of piece of work across a range of disciplines and potential applications by using AUT facilities (3D Lab, WetLab, Bindery, Risograph printer).

Courses are delivered over one semester for each class and are worth 15 points each. Y'all volition need to complete 60 points for the entire minor. In each twelvemonth, y'all will report and consummate core compulsory courses alongside studio and specialist courses in the small-scale that yous take selected.

Enrolment in this minor is subject to approval from the Fine art & Pattern Minors, Head of Department.

Available as a pocket-sized only.

Small-scale must include

lx points from the post-obit courses:

• ARDN511 The Traveller: Site-Related Practices
• ARDN621 The Collaborator: Collaborative Practices
• ARDN622 The Benefactor: Publication Practices
• ARDN711 The Organiser: Outcome-based Practices

Additional majors and minors for bachelor'southward degrees

Add an additional major or a minor to your bachelor's degree and study some other area that interests you. You can choose from a wide range of additional majors or minors.

Additional majors and minors for available's degrees

Enrolment in minors is discipline to availability (not all minors listed above volition be open each yr). You also have the option of studying a minor or elective courses from outside the Bachelor of Visual Arts.

Your report is based in the making of fine art, supported by theory classes along with a mix of one-on-one tutorials, group critiques, seminars, exhibitions, visits from artists and critics, noho marae, and gallery visits.

Visual arts courses are delivered over either one semester or a full year. If you're a full-fourth dimension student, you ordinarily consummate 120 points each yr (360 points for the unabridged degree). In each yr you will written report and complete core compulsory courses alongside your selected small-scale.

Yr 1

Explore the fundamentals of visual arts theory and practice. You're encouraged to develop your ain creative interests and approaches to art-making. You'll cover a wide range of materials, media and processes.

Y'all study the following courses

• VSAR501 Visual Arts Studio I (thirty points)
• VSAR502 Visual Arts Theory I (30 points)
• VSAR503 Visual Arts Core Studio (45 points)

You also written report 1 grade from your chosen minor.

Yr 2

Yous continue doing a mix of studio and theory courses, specialising in sculpture and intermedia, painting and printmaking, or photography and lens-based media. Y'all develop avant-garde visual, media, method and conceptual skills, and create a coherent body of fine art, with increasing self-reliance.

You study the following courses

• VSAR601 Visual Arts Studio 2 (60 points)
• VSAR602 Visual Arts Theory II (thirty points)

Y'all also report two courses from your chosen minor.

Year 3

At the finish of Year 3, yous accept the opportunity to exhibit your piece of work through the AUT Schoolhouse of Art and Blueprint festival

Y'all study the following courses

• VSAR701 Visual Arts Studio Three (75 points)
• VSAR702 Visual Arts Theory III (xv points)
• VSAR703 Visual Arts Professional Exercise (15 points)

You besides written report one class from your chosen small-scale.

More details about courses in this plan

AUT visual arts alumni are now carving successful careers around the world, as notable artists, curators, arts administrators, academics, teachers and technicians.

Art industries

• Creative person
• Arts ambassador, director or director
• Art consultant
• Art critic, historian, commentator, author or researcher

Museums and galleries

• Art gallery manager or possessor
• Curator
• Gallery technician
• Conservation

Arts pedagogy

• Teacher
• Community education
• Gallery educator

Artistic technologies

• Film industry
• Commercial photographer
• Interactive designer
• Web designer

Community development

• Community and public art direction and coordination
• Arts advocacy roles

Creative entrepreneur

• Craft business concern
• Art off-white developers

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Visual Arts Careers

Broaden your options past studying double degrees

Double degrees double your knowledge and opportunities but don't necessarily take double the time to complete. If y'all study double degrees, you lot apply for and enrol separately in each of the ii degrees. If you're considering doing this, please seek grade advice to discuss your plans. Yous may be able to cross-credit relevant courses from 1 degree to the other, although the number of cantankerous-credits will vary depending on the degree combinations. Double degrees may be completed either ane subsequently the other or concurrently.

Written report visual arts and:

• Bachelor of Business concern

Detailed programme structure

By studying both degrees you lot develop design skills for roles in visual arts and business concern. This includes the ability to create loftier value products, services and brands, and to balance artistic design and strategic thinking to complement design and business.

Postgraduate study

Postgraduate study will open up up even more career opportunities for you. Our 18-calendar month chief's caste will enable you to specialise in and enquiry a detail area inside your called discipline.

• Principal of Visual Arts

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