Viewing art student Diane Harries' installation piece There Used To Be Enough is like stepping into a different world.
Created from handmade flax paper, copper wire and muka fibre stitching, the installation consists of 15,000 laser cut kereru [wood pigeon] shapes, hanging in curtains that invite the viewer to walk through.
Ms Harries doesn't know how long it took her to make There Used To Be Enough, but the laser-cutting alone took 30 hours.
She is one of 30 Whanganui UCOL students taking part in two end-of-year exhibitions that open this weekend.
Penultimate is an exhibition by third- and fourth-year Bachelor of Fine Arts students, and Liquid Light displays the work of Diploma in Glass Design and Production students.
Student representative Caitlyn Mackley said the fine arts degree exhibition contained a wide range of artwork, including print-making, glass, painting, sculpture and photography.
Most of the works would be for sale, although there were a few students who would prefer not to sell their pieces.
This is the second-to-last exhibition for BFA students, as UCOL is scrapping the qualification from 2016, and the last exhibition for the Diploma of Glass students before the Wanganui Glass School closes.
Penultimate and Liquid Light open this weekend at the Quay School of the Arts, on the corner of Liverpool and Wicksteed Sts, and will close on November 15.