ARTH489 research essays
Research essays completed by our Honours students.
Copies of ARTH489 research essays are available from the Art History Library.
2021
Lineham, Brett, ‘It Makes Visible: Images from a Troubled Decade in New Zealand’.
2020
Deakin, Olivia, ‘Dessert in a Cabbage: An Exploration of Eighteenth-Century Vegetable Tureens’.
2019
Bowler, Pat, ‘Winter Fountain: Lingua Franca of Neo-Liberal Taste’.
Dyer, Nina, ‘Return versus re-enactment: Daniel Malone’s revisitation of Billy Apple’s conceptual practice’.
Lee, Brianah, ‘Bicyclettes of the Belle Epoque: Women and the bicycle as seen in French Posters’.
Tubby, Alexandra, ‘Chasing Rainbows: The Len Lye Centre’.
Wallace, Jane, ‘Imagining Alternatives: Social Commitment in the Work of Rosemary Johnson’.
2018
Eleyna Rider, New Zealand’s Photographic Ghost Story: The History of Spirit Photography
Holly Gillan, Goya’s “Los Proverbios”: Piecing Together the Fragments of an Enigmatic Folio
Nicole Monk, Imaging ‘Macbeth:’ From The Stage To Pictorial Representations
Hanahiva Rose, no title available yet
2017
Kaitlin Austin-Weaver, ‘Transformations in Religious Art from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth-Century’.
Frances Crombie, ‘The Naked and the Nude: Indecency on the Colonial Frontier’.
Kenneth Dawson, ‘’Art Grows from Joy and Sorrow’: The Impact of Illness on the Life and Works of Edvard Munch’.
Zachary Klavs, ‘”’No portrait of Any Person Still Living”: An Analysis of the National Portrait Gallery’s Collecting Criteria’.
Moya Lawson, ‘”The Camera in the Coral Islands”: Contesting constructions of the “Native Belle”’.
Alys Pullein, ‘William Henry Whitmore Davis’s Wide Angle’.
Millie Singh, “’The Supremacy of White Drips: Art’s Dignity in the Art Market”’.
2016
Barrett, Matthew, ‘Andreas Gursky’s Ocean III. Constructed Mythologies & The Banal Sublime’.
Chemis, Italia, ‘Not just onnanoko shashin [girl photography]’.a
Keyse, Georgina, ‘Women Collecting Women: The Art Collections of Wilhelmina Holladay, Sheila Cruthers and Valeria Napoleone’.
Lee-Duncan, Ellie, ‘Body of Work: Representations of gender in Rebecca Swan’s ‘Assume Nothing’”.
Mitchell-Anyon, Milly, ‘Life After Death: Joanna Margaret Paul’.
Nodwell, Rebecca, ‘Undressing Duchamp: Voyeurism in Given’.
Parle, Oliver, ‘The Aerial Landscape. Metrological approaches to the sky in New Zealand and Great Britain’.
Taylor, Lachlan, ‘Conventional Wisdom. Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful and the Presumptions of Political Effect’.
Yonge Seaton, Andre, ‘Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain Flowers 1745 – 1751’.
2015
Balfoort, Darius F., ‘Frances Hodgkins: Exhibitions in retrospect, contributing to New Zealand modernism’.
Boyes, Michael, “’Somebody say something’: the sale of Colin McCahon’s Storm Warning, implications and consequences”.
Gennard, Simon, ‘Indecent Gestures: Bad memories of public sex in Jack Body’s pRunes’
Hutchinson, Ashleigh, The Photographs of Winifred Couper’.
O’Donnell, ‘Masculinity Unhinged. Exploring the New Zealand Stereotype of Masculinity: A Case Study of Two Exhibitions, 1993-1995’.
“’Rigg, Anna, ‘Delicious imprints’: representations of stays in eighteenth-century French art”.
Schmidt, Kari, ‘Participatory Arts Practice in New Zealand’.
2014
Aagaard, Peter, ‘The Selfie: Evolved Self Portrait, Simply Self Indulgent or the next step in Self Promotion?’
Brennan, Grace, ‘‘Academies, clubs, receptions. Stand by to receive welcome!’
Christopher Perkins and the Wellington Art Scene’
Calman, Olivia, ‘Children of Imagination: Unofficial Art of World War One’
Campbell, Laura, ‘James McLauchlan Nairn (1859-1904): through an Aesthetic lens’
Davis, Rachel, ‘Familial Bearings The New Zealand Coat of Arms’
Hampson, Sebastian, ‘Visible Monuments. Laurence Aberhart & Cultural Memory’
Henderson, Emma, ‘Yinka Shonibare: The Garden of Love and Post Colonialism’
Morrissey-Brown, Amanda, ‘“In the style of…” Art Forgery and the Authentic Art Object’
Walker, Ellen, ‘Comparison of the Art of Dick Frizzell and Richard Killeen until the 1990s’
2013
Cairncross, Chloe, ‘Sir George Grey’s Ukiyo-e Curios of a Collection’.
Childs, Victoria, ‘The Neoclassical Closet: Girodet and Art History’.
Clifford, Jessica,’Empire: White Cube & the New Art World Order’.
Cull, Chloe, ‘Māori Women Artists within ‘Māori modernism.’
Davis, India, ‘JAR: A Study of a Contemporary Art Space’.
Kerr, Isabel, ‘Look but don’t touch! The Portraits of Juliette Récamier’.
Lloyd, Emily, ‘Grahame Sydney: The ‘Marginalised’ Artist’.
McGuiness, Erin, ‘Indelible Women: Modern British Women Printmakers in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa’.
Rodway, Fleur, ‘Odile and Odette: Yinka Shonibare at the Ballet.
Small, Hana, ‘Lindauer and Māori’.
Sullivan, Deidre, ‘”An excellent gathering of notable prints.” The Denton Collection of Pictorial Photographs at the Sarjeant Art Gallery’.
2012
Aitken, Jessica, ‘Victorian Visions: Images of Roman Decadence in the paintings of J.W.Waterhouse and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’.
Gradwell, Morgan, ‘After Goya: Prints by Jake and Dinos Chapman’.
Holmes, Jessie, ‘Denizens of the Dark Side’.
Ng, Katherine Emma, ‘Eating with the Eyes: Contemporary New Zealand food photography’.
Powell, Katherine, ‘Assembling the Art of Assemblage’.
Sinclair, Grace, ‘”Education through Art”- High Modernism in the covers of the New Zealand School Journal‘.
Waldren, Gaylene, ‘Edith Halcombe: A Visual Diary of Settlement’.