Whitecliffe is thrilled to congratulate recent graduate Grace Kim on winning the AgIdeas NewStar Competition. After submitting her fourth year BFA work, Grace was shortlisted with a group of 30 rising stars. Grace travelled to Melbourne last week to attend the conference, where she was announced as the winner of the Collie Print Trust Award. Grace receives a travelling scholarship that will see her mentored by a leading international design master at a studio of her choice. She will select... > Read more

The 8th Urbis Designday was held in Auckland on Saturday 23 March. Thirteen Whitecliffe students and recent graduates collaborated with Hewlett Packard to transform the Silo space at Wynyard Quarter. Interpreting this year’s theme Journey of Connections, the collaboration delivered an... > Read more

Congratulations to Marlaina Key – Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate ’05. Marlaina has been selected as one of 10 Venice Biennale Exhibition Attendants. The attendants will be rostered to work at La Pieté. She will work as an ambassador, assisting with the supervision and promotion of the... > Read more

Third year BFA student Jessica Ellis recently competed at the New Zealand Rowing Nationals representing West End Rowing Club. Impressively, in only her third season rowing, Jess managed to secure two podium finishes. She came 3rd in the double and 3rd in the single at Nationals (and also came 1st... > Read more

For an exhibition in March, the BFA Year One students rescaled a small photo to a larger 96-square format to explore colour and produce an original and inventive self portrait over four intensive painting days. > Read more

In April the Greg Whitecliffe Memorial Charitable Trust helped celebrate Parnell District School’s 140th Anniversary by sponsoring 12 Whitecliffe students to work with the primary students to design and create fabulous crowns. The young primary students were excited to be professionally... > Read more

Whitecliffe Fashion Design students Blair Wheeler and Wilson Ong participated in The Purfex Mannequin Parade which took place as window displays in local New Lynn shopfronts during the month of March. After the exhibition the artists’ mannequins were auctioned off on 6th April for charity. The... > Read more

Congratulations to Whitecliffe Masters of Fine Arts graduate Denise Batchelor who has been selected to be the 2013 Artist in Residence by the Auckland Parks, Recreation and Heritage Forum to capture an important regional park on film. Denise will live within the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park for... > Read more

Last year, the Tertiary Education Commission carried out its largest-ever evaluation of research quality in New Zealand's tertiary education sector. This was to determine the allocation of the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). Whitecliffe performed very well, gaining first place rankings in... > Read more

Daphne Simons was the 2012 Wikiriwhi Award Recipient The Wikiriwhi Scholarship for the top Year 3 student entering YR 4 was modified in 2009 to reflect the late co-founder Greg Whitecliffe’s desire that his students experience art opportunities overseas. Daphne Simons, the fourth... > Read more

Whitecliffe was well represented at the 2013 Waiheke Headlands Sculpture on the gulf with current senior lecturer Matt Ellwood’s exhibit ‘Little Bush’, former student Aaron... > Read more

Whitecliffe students created fantastic murals on caravans for the Prana Eco Retreat and New Year Festival. Over 1500 people attended the festival and the caravans were an integral part of the Arts... > Read more

Whitecliffe Senior Lecturer John Horner donated his time to aid in the restoration project for the Hawke Sea Scouts building, Cox’s Bay. This restoration project aims to renovate the building... > Read more

This summer, Marc O’Donnell and Daphne Simons hosted a residency project called ‘Campaign in Dog Park Art Project Space’, Christchurch. During their stay they combined powers to... > Read more

Jaimi Haycock’s Exhibit, ‘Chicken’ Curated by Siobhan Garrett. JaImi Haycock, Year 3 Fine Arts, exhibited her work in Viewfinder. (Viewfinder is a video screen project in the... > Read more

Over 380 students and staff attended the 2013 orientation lunch at the Balfour Road campus. Sponsors Gordon Harris and ANZ bank were on hand to meet with students and long time sponsor Gordon... > Read more

The annual post graduate event was held at President Michele Whitecliffe’s home for the new 2013 MFA participants and for the 7 graduating MFA students or as they like to call themselves the... > Read more

Ken Cooke former Dean of Students visited Whitecliffe, Ken was instrumental in establishing the Arts Therapy Postgraduate Degree program in the early years and he was quite impressed with how far... > Read more

Mikala Dwyer, International artist, Senior Lecturer - University of Sydney College of the Arts and visiting scholar, New Zealand artist Judy Millar presented to a packed lecture hall for the... > Read more

The Master of Fine Arts Exhibition in January opened with great success to over 400 visitors. Irmelin Lee, Te Rangi Kaihoro, Lorna Dixon > Read more