Maori and Pakeha (3)

And here is another of my new works. From the body of work Maori and Pakeha

enjoy



And don't forget to pop in to see the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Awards show that is opening this Friday night (4th of September) at 5.30pm. The exhibition runs till January 2010 so you should have no excuses as to getting in there at some point.

show in melbourne - THE WORK

Here was my contribution to the show in Melbourne. It is from another body of work from my MFA.

On another note, my piece, Husband and Wife is a finalist in the TWNCAA (Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Awards) The exhibition of all the finalists is on at the Waikato Museum, from Sept through to Jan 2010. I will keep you posted with the info about the show closer to the time.

show in melbourne

We are off to Melbourne this weekend to hang the show for the students enrolled in the NZ MFA at RMIT (which includes me). For those of you who don't like the acronyms that is the New Zealand Master of Fine Arts at RMIT University. The invite to the show is below, feel free to pop in if you are in Melbourne!

confusion

This image is titled Pakeha and Maori with Moko
I went to my last tutorial thinking that this was my new favorite image. It was soon made clear to me that this was most peoples least favorite image out of my recent work, and of course, that the image I had liked the least, was everyone's favorite. How confusing. I'm still coming to terms with it. I can see how the ethical and political issues of this image could be potentially problematic. But regardless of this I was interested in pursuing the use of it in my work. Now I am having to step back and weigh it all up. Feedback is always appreciated.

great-grandmother, granddaughter, and great-grandson

sisters

On this journey of superimposing images together, it strikes me how two images could be combined so differently.

Here we have sisters



And sisters (2)




They are the same sisters

mother and son

a notion of transmutation of relationship and culture in New Zealand


This is perhaps a more apt description of what it is I am looking at in my current work... I'm yet to nut it out completely, I'm getting there though, slowly.

Here is an image titled mother and son, it's of my son and I



Here is the image I took also titled mother and son. I made this image first, and felt that there was something else that I could gain by repeating and changing the image. The new one above is much different than this earlier version, and I don't know if much can be gained by directly comparing them, but here they are anyway.