Week 1: Artist Statement

For week 1 and week 2, the main priority as sorting out the team of four or more students. We were asked to think about what are the outcomes we want from this paper and why we chose to do exhibition.

For myself (Nicole), Cay and Angelique, we were all interested on the possibility of exhibiting our work aside from our course which is Visual Communication Design. Through our pitch we were able to meet Michael and David who were both VCD students as well, as they had the same intent to display works beyond our VCD course.

Below is our joint artist statement as posted on Facebook group

Hi! I am Cay, a VCD student. For my Honors project, I am working on creating accessible resource toolkit for refugee youth in New Zealand. My aim is to create something that will enable youth to act as activators of change. During my research last semester I was initially interested in creating an installation aiming to bring awareness to the issues faced by the refugee youth. This idea is not that developed, therefore, I am not too interested in exhibiting work but I am open to collaborating with people if the opportunity is presented. I am interested in creating material and image branding or curating for the exhibition. 

Nikki and Angelique are also VCD students. Nikki’s current interest includes painting, illustration and typography. She does painting and illustration as a personal hobby and creative outlet. But also like typography and editorial design. Her goal for the exhibition paper is to take on the role of an Artist, to highlight her interest in painting and artwork. She’s also keen on applying design practice for this exhibition. Angelique’s work is often based on typography and editorial design. And love to explore and experiment design in its abstract way. She’s also into painting and illustration. She wants to use this exhibition paper to emphasise her major project topic women empowerment. It is all about helping transform and enhance women confidence in fitness so to improve their health and well-being. She wants to use this paper to exhibit and publish designs to inspire others by her craft.

We are not currently attached to a certain topic to exhibit. But we are also interested in topics around mental illness, women empowerment and race. I would be interested in doing something about refugees as it is my current topic for my Honors project. I think it would be cool to work on an interactive exhibition.