Visual Arts

In the Arts, students explore, refine, and communicate ideas as they connect thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings to create works and respond to the works of others.

What are the Arts about?

The Arts are powerful forms of expression that recognise, value, and contribute to the unique bicultural and multicultural character of Aotearoa New Zealand, enriching the lives of all New Zealanders. The arts have their own distinct languages that use both verbal and non-verbal conventions, mediated by selected processes and technologies. Through movement, sound, and image, the performing arts transform people’s creative ideas into expressive works that communicate layered meanings.

Why study the Arts?

Arts education explores, challenges, affirms, and celebrates unique artistic expressions of self, community, and culture. It embraces te reo Māori, valuing the forms and practices of customary and contemporary Māori performing, musical, and visual arts.

Learning in, through, and about the arts stimulates creative action and response by engaging and connecting thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings. By participating in the arts, students’ personal well-being is enhanced. As students express and interpret ideas within creative, aesthetic, and technological frameworks, their confidence to take risks is increased. Specialist studies enable students to contribute their vision, abilities, and energies to arts initiatives and creative industries.

In the arts, students learn to work both independently and collaboratively to construct meanings, produce works, and respond to and value others’ contributions. They learn to use imagination to engage with unexpected outcomes and to explore multiple solutions.

Arts education values young children’s experiences and builds on these with increasing sophistication and complexity as their knowledge and skills develop. Through the use of creative and intuitive thought and action, learners in the arts are able to view their world from new perspectives. Through the development of arts literacies, students, as creators, presenters, viewers, and listeners, are able to participate in, interpret, value, and enjoy the arts throughout their lives.

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Subjects in this Faculty

Sales and Marketing Manager, Aeronautical Engineer, Photographer, Private Teacher/Tutor, Mining Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Technician, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Statistician, Architect, Architectural Technician, Sound Technician, Electronics Engineer, Automotive Refinisher, Wall and Floor Tiler, Painter and Decorator, Furniture Finisher, Industrial Spray Painter, Signmaker, Animator/Digital Artist, Advertising Specialist, Copywriter, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artist, Artistic Director, Film and Video Editor, Dancer, Beauty Therapist, Entertainer, Film/Television Camera Operator, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Musician, Event Manager, Jeweller, Make-up Artist, Curator, Demonstrator,