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Te Moemoea No Iotefa
Te Moemoea no Iotefa was the first exhibition held in a civic art gallery in New Zealand focused on contemporary Pacific art. Exhibition The exhibition was curated by art historian Rangihiroa Panoho for the Sarjeant Art Gallery in Whanganui in 1990 and the metropolitan City Galleries in Wellington and in Auckland in 1991. Its starting point and its iconic motif was a Tahitian tivaevae featuring the Genesis story of the 'Dream of Joseph' or ''Te moemoea no Iotefa''. The exhibition initially filled all spaces of the historic Sarjeant Gallery building, an earlier version of the Wellington City Art Gallery and the entire first floor of the Auckland Art Gallery. In the exhibition catalogue Panoho outlined the South Pacific as, 'Aotearoa's most immediate historical, geographical and cultural context', and that he was seeking to 'examine and explore the visual side of this context and the ways in which artists in this country are exploring it'. The exhibition brought together four strands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarjeant Art Gallery
The Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui at Pukenamu, Queen's Park Whanganui is currently closed for redevelopment. The temporary premises at Sarjeant on the Quay, 38 Taupo Quay currently house the Sarjeant Collection, and all exhibitions and events. The Sarjeant Gallery is a regional art museum with a collection of international and New Zealand art. Founding and building The Sarjeant was built as the result of a bequest to the city by Henry Sarjeant in 1912. Sarjeant bequeathed the money "for the inspiration of ourselves and those who come after us." A competition was held to select an architect for the project; the winner was Dunedin architect Edmund Anscombe, but it is likely the actual design was completed by a young student in his offices names Donald Hosie. The cruciform, neo-classical style gallery was opened in 1919. Four galleries branch off a central space capped with an oculus in a hemispherical dome. The building is registered with the New Zealand Historic Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Laita
Lily Aitui Laita (born 1969) is an artist and art educator in New Zealand. Laita is of mixed Pākehā and Māori ancestry (Ngāti Raukawa), as well as of Samoan descent. Laita is known for using Māori, English and Samoan texts in her paintings. Education Laita graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1990, and completed her Masters in Painting in 2002. She taught at Wanganui Polytech and Western Springs College, Auckland. Work Laita's work straddles the figurative and the abstract and she is well known for large-scale paintings on various supports, from stretched canvas to black building paper. In a 1992 interview she described moving paint on the surface of her work with her hands. Asked in the interview 'So do you fit into a tradition?' the artist replied: Tradition is what you do today. I paint on black builder's paper and there's this 'Oh my God it's on builder's paper!' In my immediate family my father makes concerete tanks, my mother's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Art
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Bottled Ocean
Bottled Ocean was an exhibition of work by New Zealand artists of Pacific Island descent that was shown at a number of metropolitan art galleries in New Zealand in 1994–1995. It featured the work artists who have become notable figures in New Zealand and internationally. Curatorial intent Jim Vivieaere, a New Zealand artist of Rarotongan descent, was commissioned by touring exhibition company Exhibitour to curate an exhibition of contemporary Pacific Island artists. City Gallery Wellington was a partner in the exhibition. The exhibition was not a straightforward survey or 'celebration' of Pacific artists. Organising the exhibition turned Vivieaere into a spokesperson or authority on Pacific Island art, a position he was uneasy with. He was concerned that the exhibition could lead to artists being pigeon-holed or 'ghettoised' or that stereotypes of the 'exotic' Pacific could be reinforced. In one interview Vivieaere said that the ‘only reason we are here is that we are Polynesia ... [...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] |
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] |
Michel Tuffery
Michael "Michel" Cliff Tuffery (born 27 May 1966) is a New Zealand artist of Samoan, Tahitian and Cook Islands descent. He is one of New Zealand's most well known artists and his work is held in many art collections in New Zealand and around the world. Early life His mother is Samoan Bula Tuffery (nee Paotonu) and his biological father was Cook Island Tahitian. His step father was Denis Tuffery, of European descent. He attended Newlands College in Wellington, and has a Diploma in Fine Arts (Hons) from the School of Fine Arts at Otago Polytechnic (1989). He lives and works in Wellington. Career One of his distinctive sculptures from 1994 is the life-sized work, entitled '' Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)'', which was constructed from flattened and riveted re-cycled corned beef tins. His work is shaped by his research into, and encounters with his Polynesian heritage while making use of Māori design. Many of his works explore colonialism and people's treatment of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pule
John Puhiatau Pule (born 18 April 1962) is a Niuean artist, novelist and poet. The Queensland Art Gallery describes him as "one of the Pacific's most significant artists".Description of John Pule's painting ''Kulukakina (after experiencing something miraculous, withdraw)'', 2004 on the Queensland Art Gallery's website Early life Pule was born on 13 April 1962 in Liku, , and arrived in New Zealand in 1964. He was educated at[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatu Feu'u
Fatu Akelei Feu'u (born 1946) is a noted Samoan painter from the village of Poutasi in the district of Falealili in Samoa. He has established a reputation as the elder statesman of Pacific art in New Zealand. Biography Feu'u emigrated to New Zealand in 1966 after growing up in the village of Poutasi, Western Samoa. He always wanted to be an artist and noted the difference of how art was viewed between Samoa and New Zealand, with 'beautifully made, functional canoes and houses' being art in Samoa and in New Zealand art was 'something extra special not to be touched'. Feu'u has been an exhibiting artist since the early 1980s and became a full-time artist in 1988, prior to that he worked as a designer and colour advisor for textile and car companies. He was influenced and mentored by artists Tony Fomison, Pat Hanly and Philip Clairmont. In 1995 he became the first artist of Pacific heritage awarded the James Wallace Art Award. He was appointed an Honorary Officer of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whanganui
Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whanganui is the 19th most-populous urban area in New Zealand and the second-most-populous in Manawatū-Whanganui, with a population of as of . Whanganui is the ancestral home of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and other Whanganui Māori tribes. The New Zealand Company began to settle the area in 1840, establishing its second settlement after Wellington. In the early years most European settlers came via Wellington. Whanganui greatly expanded in the 1870s, and freezing works, woollen mills, phosphate works and wool stores were established in the town. Today, much of Whanganui's economy relates directly to the fertile and prosperous farming hinterland. Like several New Zealand urban areas, it was officially designated a city until an administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Hanly
James Patrick Hanly (2 August 1932 – 20 September 2004), generally known as Pat Hanly, was a prolific New Zealand painter. One of his works is a large mural ''Rainbow Pieces'' (1971) at Chrischurch Town Hall. Early life Born in Palmerston North, Hanly was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School. His parents organised a hairdressing apprenticeship for him and he left school during 1948 without completing his fourth-form year. During this time Hanly took night classes and then enrolled as a non-diploma student at the Canterbury College School of Art in Christchurch in 1952. After completing his studies there, Hanly travelled to Europe, and attended classes at the Chelsea School of Art. Career Hanly returned to New Zealand in 1962, and accepted a part-time position teaching drawing at the University of Auckland School of Architecture. Hanly is one of New Zealand's most prolific artists. Hanly continued to paint until his retirement in 1994. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Lett Galleries
Barry Lett Galleries was a dealer gallery focused on contemporary New Zealand art that operated in Auckland in the 1960s and 1970s. History Barry Lett Galleries was opened in 1965 by Barry Lett (1940–2017), who had graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts the previous year, Rodney Kirk Smith (1938-1996), and Frank Lowe, who had run Ikon Gallery with fellow architecture student Don Wood from 1960 to 1964. In the early 1960s a new generation of dealer galleries (often short-lived) arose in Auckland, encouraging people to see and buy contemporary New Zealand art. Barry Lett Galleries filled a gap left in the Auckland cultural scene by the closure of Ikon Gallery (which had shown, among others, Colin McCahon, Don Binney and Pat Hanly), as did Kees and Tina Hos's New Vision Gallery. Barry Lett Galleries showed many of the leading painters of the 1960s and 1970s, including McCahon, Binney, Hanly, Milan Mrkusich, Gordon Walters, Ralph Hotere, Michael Smither, Michael Illingworth a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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