Activities
5. Fiona Pardington and Robyn Kahukiwa - two visual artists
Art works that reflect changes in the community
The topics for Fiona's art works have changed over time because her ideas have been affected by the information gathered and the events that continue to shape her life.
How open are you to change? Think of a topic you once felt strongly about and how over time that feeling has changed. For example:
- A school friend
- Your brother or sister
- musical tastes.
Reflect on what events you have experienced have caused those changes.
Photography as history
Go to the centre drop down menu and locate HISTORY and STYLES.
Read the information at those sites.
Go to INFLUENCES - Historic.
Fiona states
"I'm looking directly at people that no longer exist in times and places that no longer exist. There's that intense feeling of continuing a story imaginatively which is this really weird thing you can do when you look at photographs."
Locate a book with some good photographs and try an imaginative exercise. Choose a photo you like and invent a story around the picture. Say who, where, what is happening and why. Say what might happen next.
Photography as personal statements
Fiona's photography has a lot of personal meaning and feeling attached. By reading about her photos we come to a better understanding of how an artist uses subject matter from the immediate community to create a quality art work.
For example:
Go to MELTDOWN, NURSE FURLEY, ORACLE, PRIZE OF LILIES
Can you think of a subject or person that you could photograph in a particular way that puts across your personal ideas / feelings. What would you do?
Contemporary versus Traditional
From Patricia Grace's introductory page select Robyn Kahukiwa
Go to Centre drop down menu and select Māori Art.
Read the information about Contemporary and Traditional.
Tell someone about what you have learned.
Photo-realism
Find out about the style 'photo-realism' from Robyn's page POSTERS.
Can you identify the reasons why Robyn has chosen this form of art work to display her ideas?
