Events

OLDSCHOOL NEWSCHOOL: An Art & Design History of New Zealand

This anniversary exhibition is a great opportunity to give public recognition to the contribution design has made to the profile and fabric of New Zealand and the global reputation this has established. 

With funding support from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board, the exhibition is part of the REAL New Zealand Festival, celebrating all things kiwi during the International Rugby World Cup.

The list of contributors to the College’s anniversary exhibition OLDSCHOOL NEWSCHOOL reads like a roll call of some of New Zealand’s most respected designers, artists and educationalists.

Robert Stout. Arthur Riley. Lynley Richardson. Len Lye.
Avis Higgs. Gordon Walters. Don Ramage. Bill Toomath.
Kate Coolahan. James Coe. Mark Cleverley. Peter Tasker.
Mark Pennington. Grant Alexander. Jane Ussher. Murray Pilcher.
Julia Morison. Don Peebles. John Drawbridge. Ray Labone.
Michael Smythe. Sir Richard Taylor. Kate Sylvester. Fane Flaws.
Grant Davidson. Murray Pilcher. Joe Bleakley. Manos Nathan.
Collette Dinnigan. Jurgen Waibel. Matt Holmes. Danny Coster.
Rebecca Taylor. Catherine Griffiths. Peter Trevelyan. Tony Parker.
Alexandra Owen. Kathryn Wilson. Mark Elmore. Gavin Bradley.
Adrian Hailwood. John Brown. Alexandra Owen.

From the School of Design established by Arthur Riley in 1886 to the Technical School of Art and the Wellington Polytechnic that followed, for 125 years the College of Creative Arts has been producing designs that work. While some designers may not be known by name, their products will be recognised, and indeed are probably used daily across the globe, without reference to the creative intelligence that produced them.