Mikayla Begg. Photo supplied.Former Ashburton College student Mikayla Begg is among Bachelor of Design students at Ara putting the finishing touches on their third and final year projects.

The final year students are showing off their work to potential employers at a RIPE exhibition that will run at Ara’s Christchurch campus until November 22.

Begg is studying applied visual art and her work for the exhibition is titled Collections from my World 2018.

Having studied drawing, printmaking, woodcut, ceramics and screen printing over her first two years at Ara, she settled on screen printing and textiles for her final year work.

From a packed visual diary of ideas and research, inspired by the natural world, she has turned flowers, natural dyes and rust into whimsical textile-based, multimedia works for RIPE.

“In the third year we are more independent and find something that we are really interested in to develop from.

“We all bounce ideas off each other and the tutors help us to fine-tune them.”

The RIPE exhibition is the culmination of a year’s worth of work by all the students involved, resulting in drawing, prints, sculptures, posters, publications, films and animations representing the visual communication, photography, applied visual art and motion design specialisations.

© The Ashburton Guardian - 14 November 2018