Student Group Show
‘Whakawhanaungatanga 2025’
Based on and image from Olivia Moore, Ilam photography 3rd year
09.08.25
24.08.25
Whakawhanaungatanga means the process of building and sustaining those multi-layered, flexible, and dynamic relationships and forms the foundation of our communities.
The 2023 inaugural show was born from a desire to foster creative collaboration between Ara Institute of Canterbury and Ilam School of Fine Arts students.
Playing with the tradition of a salon-style hang, Whakawhanuangatanga 2025 features the work of close to 40 students. This exhibition builds on the legacy of the original and continues to offer opportunity for connection, communal growth, and for tauira from both institutions to share their work with each other, the community, and the art world in a well-established art space.
“Whānau is often translated as ‘family’, but its meaning is more complex. It includes physical, emotional and spiritual dimensions and is based on whakapapa. Whānau can be multi-layered, flexible and dynamic. Whānau is based on a Māori and a tribal world view. It is through the whānau that values, histories and traditions from the ancestors are adapted for the contemporary world.” -Tai Walker, academic.
The Artists
Rebecca Brown – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Painting, Ilam
@rebeccab_art
Charlie Campbell – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Painting, Ilam
Tommy Grick – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Painting, Ilam
Sophie Brown – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Sculpture, Ilam
Vivien Silver-Hessey – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Painting, Ilam
@vivsilver.art
Rata Jamieson – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Moving Image, Ilam
@chicory.sugar
@uc.fitz
Jack Freeman (collab with Emma Young) – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Design, Ilam
@jackkfreemann
@bysnail.design
Emma Foung (collab with Jack Freeman) – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Design, Ilam
@bysnail.design
Fletcher McClelland – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Photography, Ilam
@fletch_mmcc
Robbie Poon – Ōtautahi
3rd Year, Painting, Ilam
@ms_paint___
Vienna Nunns – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Sculpture, Ilam
@viennarose_art
Lydia Bailie-Bellew – Ōtautahi
3rd Year, Painting, Ilam
@lydia.bb.art
Xinran Yu – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Sculpture, Ilam
@catty_lake.x
Kane Vangioni – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Sculpture, Ilam
@ipodworm
Gabrielle Carlile-Smith – Ōtautahi
3rd Year, Painting, Ilam
@art_by_gabrielle
George French – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Painting, Ilam
@gf.fine.arts
Imogen Lovell – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Painting, Ilam
@imogenlovellart
CJ Malaqui – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Moving Image, Ilam
@cchhrryyssttoo
Olivia Moore – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Photography, Ilam
@loovilens
Jack Banks – Ōtautahi
3rd year, Moving Image, Ilam
@the_art_bank_
Sierra Bright – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@ulovessierra
@sardonic.scorpio
Mackenzie Tait – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
Adrian Grey-Bell – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@chronicplanomania
Hannah Dent – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
Emily Hickling – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
Hayley Morrison – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@andromedagalaxyfangirl
Heather Reid van Gerwen – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@heathermarigold
Sofia D’Aubert- Phillips – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@sofia_daubertphillips
Amy Carpenter – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@amy_rifka
Caitlin Brown – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@grimey.goblin
Lydia Iosefo – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
Sam McCloy – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@margaret.jane_prints
Karla Hawthorne – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@k.m.hawthorne
Lauren Willet-Hall – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
Eliza Ward – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Applied Visual Arts
@eliizaward
Rebecca Low – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Lens Based Media
@summerhillbec
Simon Jarman – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Lens Based Media
Cam Robinson – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Lens Based Media
@composedlight
Mieke Mulder – Ōtautahi
3rd year, ARA, Lens Based Media