Charlotte Huddleston
Curator and Gallery Manager
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington

What do newly-minted Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) students do if they stay in Wellington? Post-degree blues aside, I hope they keep making and exhibiting work here. I am looking forward to seeing how the Massey flavour influences the development of visual arts locally and nationally.

By association I feel close to the professional development of a number of them, and it is good to have a bunch of savvy, accomplished practitioners around. Telecom Prospect 2004 is the ideal vehicle for some of these recent and on the cusp graduates, I can think of a few who deserve to be included. That aside, what do they do if they stay? Is it time for locally ripened artists to start new artist run initiatives? Whatever they decide to do individually, it feels like there is a new maturity in art making in New Zealand (is our national shoulder chip healing?) and it is for me symbolised by these recent, and soon to be, BFA graduates.