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Creative Arts and Industries

The University’s creative centre, our faculty promotes artistic and professional innovation and collaboration.

Professor Deidre Brown and Associate Professor Ngarino Ellis have created a comprehensive textbook of Māori art history. Photo: Chris Loufte

The latest happenings from Creative Arts and Industries staff, students and alumni from around the world.

Pānuitia ā mātou kōrero | Read our stories
Georgia Arnold (MFA), Dizziness & Drawing Breath, installation view, Elam Artists Graduate Show, 2023. Photo: Marco Hidalgo

Exhibitions, performances, public lectures, seminars and shows are regular features in our faculty's creative life. Find out what’s on!

Tūhuratia | Discover now
Music graduate sitting in front of keyboards and computer in his music production studio, smiling into the distance.

Explore your creativity in architecture, design, dance, fine arts, music or urban planning.

Hōparatia | Explore
Artwork by Sue Nelson titled Flesh of all Things, artwork contains multiple sculptures placed around a room with a painted red floor and walls.

Enhance your practice, advance your professional knowledge or make a career change with postgraduate study.

Kimihia me pēhea | Find out how
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Studios, workshops and equipment

Studying here includes access to our studios, workshops, practice rooms, recording spaces, digital equipment, fabrication tools and expert technical staff.

Music and Global Studies student standing in building foyer wearing a grey sweatshirt and pounamu smiling at camera.

Get to know our students, why they chose to study a creative degree at University and what it's like to study here.

Pānui ināianei | Read now
Architecture graduate wearing a denim dress and black shirt smiles while standing and leaning on desk in the architectural firm where she works, models and sketches are on the walls behind her.

Explore creative career paths and hear what some of our students have chosen to do after graduating.

Pānui tonu | Keep reading
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Explore the courses you can enrol into for your degree.

Tūhuratia | Discover now
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New Zealand's leading tertiary provider in architecture and the built environment, we offer design-based education with strong links to industry.

Kimihia te roanga atu | Find out more

Move your body, move your thinking! An internationally-recognised centre for dance research and practice, with a focus on the arts and community development.

He whakamārama atu anō | Learn more
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See the future, then design it. Our Design Programme pushes the boundaries of what design can be and do.

He whakamārama atu anō | Learn more

New Zealand's largest and most comprehensive music school, our school is a hub of performance, research and creativity.

Kimihia te roanga atu | Find out more
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Discover the wide range of scholarships and awards available to Creative Arts and Industries students.

Rapua | Search
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Have questions? Our friendly staff at the Student Hubs will provide you with help on any aspect of your studies and life at the University of Auckland.

Whakapā mai | Contact us