Art and design news

AUT Blue Awards honour arts and culture

The annual AUT Blue Awards for sporting excellence will now be extended to acknowledge arts and culture excellence among high achieving students.

A room for one please

Thanks to students taking the Design for Sustainability paper, North campus is now host to a solitary bee hotel.

THE rankings place AUT in NZ top three

AUT has significantly improved in global university rankings published today by the Times Higher Education.

Memory inspired knits exhibited in NYC

Third-year Textile Design student Kiola Ballard reached semi-finalist status for the prestigious Dorothy Waxman textile Design Prize.

AUT 2019 domestic and international fees

Tuition fees for new domestic students, and for domestic and international students currently enrolled in a programme will increase in 2019.

AUT academic joins NZ Project Runway

AUT senior fashion lecturer Andreas Mikellis has been announced as a key player on New Zealand’s Project Runway, airing next month.

Five questions: Professor Charles Walker

We asked Professor Charles Walker five questions about his research at the time of his Inaugural Professorial Address.

AUT student's work dazzles at awards

Visual arts student Evelyn Tautakitaki won the top prize at the Eden Arts Art Schools Award, a competition that showcases outstanding student work.

Palliser Ridge Scholarship knitted-up

A scholarship sponsored by a prominent wool producer enables one of our textile design students to pursue her idea for stylish sound-proofing.

Alumna scoops top art prize

AUT visual arts alumna Angela Tiatia was awarded the prestigious Ravenswood Australian women's art prize recently for her video The Fall.