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Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu O Uenuku
Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku is an Auckland Council-owned and operated arts venue in the suburb of Māngere, in Auckland, New Zealand. The purpose-built facility was opened in 2010, and is considered by Auckland Council to be the home of Māori and Pacific visual art and performing arts in Auckland. Facility The centre was purpose-built, and opened in September 2010 by Manukau City Council. It is now both owned and operated by Auckland Council. The venue includes two gallery spaces, totalling 217m2, and a 230-seat theatre. In addition to the 390m2 performance space, there are a 56m2 studio space, three dressing rooms and a Green Room. An enclosed courtyard is used for outside performances. The facility also has a community kitchen and a cafe. Attendance in 2018 and 2019 was more than 36,000 people annually. Since 2013, Alison Quigan has been the Performing Arts Manager at the centre. Programme The theatre produces an annual school holiday production in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Sisters
Pacific Sisters is a collective of Pacific and Māori artists, performers, fashion designers, jewellers and musicians. Establishment and early years The collective was formed in 1992 by Selina Forsyth ( Samoan) Niwhai Tupaea (Ngāti Katoa) and Suzanne Tamaki ( Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Maniapoto). The sisterhood also includes Rosanna Raymond (Samoan), Feeonaa Wall (Samoan), Ani O'Neill (Cook Islands), Lisa Reihana ( Ngā Puhi), Jaunnie Ilolahia ( Tongan) and is inclusive of Pacific Soles: Henry Taripo (Cook Islands) and Karlos Quartez (Cook Islands) and Greg Semu (Samoan). Throughout the 1990s Pacific Sisters collaborated in the production of fashion shows, art performances and musical events. Karen Stevenson, author of ''The Frangipani is Dead: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand'' writes, “Challenging the established art canon, The Pacific Sisters combined costume, tradition, dance and the catwalk with the energetic rhythms of hip hop”. The Sisters created a stage for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Galleries In New Zealand
Art is a diverse range of human behavior, human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imagination, imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative arts, decorative or applied arts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In Auckland
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethany Edmunds
Bethany Matai Edmunds (born 1978) is a New Zealand Māori weaver, Textile arts, textile artist, museum professional and Hip hop music, hip hop lyricist. She is affiliated with Ngāti Kurī iwi. Her works are held in the collection of the Auckland City Gallery. Biography Edmunds was born in 1978. She has a Bachelor of Applied Arts: Māori Design and Technology and while studying received tutoring from the renowned cloak weaver Nikki Lawrence. Edmunds went on to study at New York University where she gained a Master of Arts degree. She investigated the conservation, storage and display of Māori cloaks across four museums in the United States of America. While in America she was chosen to work as an intern at the National Museum of the American Indian. She has worked for the Auckland War Memorial Museum as a youth outreach programmer and has also been involved in the museum's Te Awe project. Edmunds also works to ensure the survival of korowai (cloak) weaving. Art Edmunds i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Hipkins
Gavin John Hipkins (born 1968 in Auckland) is a New Zealand photographer and film-maker, and Associate Professor at Elam School of Fine Arts, at the University of Auckland. Education Hipkins completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1992 and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2002. Photography Throughout his career, Hipkins has worked with both analogue and digital forms of photography. His work is often produced as either discrete multi-part works or, more rarely, in ongoing series. Falls (1992-) Hipkins began working with the format he used for a number of works, collectively known as ''Falls'', while he was still at art school. These works are made up of 'vertical strip of machine prints, which present the content of a single roll of film—a session of almost identical shots of one subject from more or less the same angle, like a ‘shot’ of film footage'. ''Zerfall Wellington 1 March 1996'' (1996) is made up of ima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Graham
Charlotte Graham (born 1972) is a contemporary Māori artist living in her tribal homelands of Auckland. She is a mandated artist for her iwi Ngāti Whanaunga. She sits on the Te Uru Contemporary Gallery board and is also part of the Te Atinga Committee. Her works are held at the Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki, the Chartwell collection, James Wallace Collection, many universities and private collections throughout the world. Of Māori and Scottish descent, Graham identifies with Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Pāoa Ngāti Tamaoho Te Akitai Waiohua and Ngāti Kōtimana. Early life Charlotte Graham was born in 1972 in Perth, Western Australia, to Māori parents from New Zealand. The family moved back to Auckland, New Zealand six months after Graham was born. Graham has a number of relatives who have been practicing artists, including aunt Emily Karaka, uncle Mikaara Kirkwood, cousins Te Rongo Kirkwood and Reuben Kirkwood. Graham's two older ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai
Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai is a Tongan curator and writer, whose work explores the role of craft in Tongan society. In the 2022 New Year Honours, Māhina-Tuai was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cultures and the arts. Career Māhina-Tuai's research focuses on the history of Tongan crafts, in particular textiles, and her research is based on the primary importance of Tongan indigenous knowledge. She is of Tongan heritage, from the villages of Tatakamotonga, and Tefisi in Vava'u. She was Curator of Pacific Cultures at Te Papa Tongarewa from 2004 to 2008. She also worked at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and for the Vavaʻu Academy for Critical Inquiry and Research. Part of her curatorial practice at the museum was to encourage the museum to change to be more welcoming to Pacific people. She also worked as an associate curator on Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki's "Home AKL: Artists of Pacific Heritage in Auckland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Charteris
Chris Charteris (born 1966) is a New Zealand sculptor, jeweller and carver. Early life and education Charteris was born in Auckland, adopted into a Pakeha family as a young child, and told he was Māori, before discovering much later that he was of Kiribati, Fijian and English descent. He began his artistic training in Kaitaia in Maori carving and design. Between 1986 and 1996, he worked as a carving tutor at Otago and Southland Polytechnics, and the Dunedin College of Education's Arai Te Uru Kokiri Youth Learning Centre. In 1995, he established Te Whare Whakairo Gallery and Workshop in Dunedin. Career He has exhibited at FhE Galleries in Auckland with ''Tuanako'' in 2011, ''To the Heart of the Matter'' in 2010, and ''Matau'' 2008. His work has been included in the group exhibition ''Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery'', exhibited at The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt and at Galerie Handwerk in Munich. His work was also part of ''Pasifika Styles'' at the Museum of Archaeolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioane Ioane
Ioane Ioane (born 1962 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand artist of Samoan descent. His work is informed by his Samoan heritage and includes performance, film, painting, installation and sculpture. In conversation about his work ''Fale Sā'' with art historian Caroline Vercoe, Ioane states, ''Sacred places are not necessarily a church, but it's a place where one likes to be in, a place of affirmation.'' Curator Ron Brownson writes, ''Ioane's attitude to sculptural process is cosmological – his carvings bind present reality with a representation of the past.'' In 2005 Ioane won the Creative New Zealand Pacific Innovation and Excellence Art Award. His work is held in both private and public collections, including the Auckland Art Gallery; the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, England; the National University of Samoa; the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia; the Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi
Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi (born 23 August 1959, in Tonga) is a Tongan artist who has lived in New Zealand since 1978. He has exhibited in major exhibitions in New Zealand and abroad. Several major collections include his work. The 2010 ''Art and Asia Pacific Almanac'' describes him as "Tongan art's foremost ambassador". Exhibitions * '' Te Moemoea no Iotefa'', an exhibition of contemporary Pacific art at the Sarjeant Art Gallery in Wanganui in 1990 * ''Bottled Ocean'' an exhibition of work by New Zealand artists of Pacific Island descent shown at a number of metropolitan art galleries in New Zealand in 1994–1995. * ''Genealogy of lines: Hohoko ē tohitohi'' at the Govett-Brewster in 2002. * Tohi was an invited artist for ''Partage d’exotismes'' (sharing exoticisms) at the Biennale of Lyon, France, 2000. * ''Date Line: zeitgenössische Kunst des Pazifik = contemporary art from the Pacific'', Berlin, 2007. * ''Fatuemaka mei falekafa: Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi.Survey part one'' at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Council
Auckland Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau) is the local government council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority that has the responsibilities, duties and powers of a regional council and so is a unitary authority, according to the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, which established the council. The governing body consists of a mayor and 20 councillors, elected from 13 wards. There are also 149 members of 21 local boards who make decisions on matters local to their communities. It is the largest council in Oceania, with a $3 billion annual budget, $29 billion of ratepayer equity, and 9,870 full-time staff as of 30 June 2016. The council began operating on 1 November 2010, combining the functions of the previous regional council and the region's seven city and district councils into one "super council" or "super city". The council was established by a number of Acts of Parliament, and an Auckland Transition Agency, als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
