Ioane Ioane

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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. [1] Ioane's art often depicts the coexistence of contemporary New Zealand and traditional Samoan cultures. [2]

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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. [3] Curator Ron Brownson writes, Ioane's attitude to sculptural process is cosmological – his carvings bind present reality with a representation of the past. [1] : 43 

Career

Fale Sa (1999), a sculpture by Ioane on display at the Auckland Art Gallery in 2025 Fale Sa by Ioane Ioane.jpg
Fale Sā (1999), a sculpture by Ioane on display at the Auckland Art Gallery in 2025

Ioane was the finalist for the Saatchi and Saatchi Art Awards in 1996. [2] In 2005 Ioane won the Creative New Zealand Pacific Innovation and Excellence Art Award. [4] In 2009 Whangarei Art Museum presented the first major survey of Ioane’s work, John Ioane – Journeyman Artist and the Pacific Paradox: A 25 Year Selective Survey Exhibition, curated by Museum Director, Scott Pothan. [5] In 2016, Ioane was the Artist in Residence at the University of Canterbury's Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. In 2018, he was the Creative New Zealand Sāmoa Artist in Residence. [2]

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 the University of Auckland Art Collection. [6] [7] [8]

Education

In 1985 Ioane received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University. [8] In 1986 he earned a diploma in teaching from the Auckland College of Education. In 1996 he received a post graduate diploma in fine arts from Elam. [9]

Selected exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Brownson, Ron; Māhina-Tuai, Kolokesa; Refiti, Albert; Tavola, Ema; Tonga, Nina (2012). Home AKL: Artists of Pacific Heritage in Auckland. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery: Toi o Tāmaki. ISBN   9780864632906.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tonga, Ane (2022). Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. p. 182. ISBN   978-0-86463-340-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ↑ Vercoe, Caroline (1991). Fale Sa. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN   0864632347.
  4. ↑ "Arts Pasifika Awards". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Whangarei Art Museum: JOHN IOANE | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "Ioane Ioane" . Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Poly Wants a Cracker". Te Papa Tongarewa. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 "Poly Wants a Cracker". City Gallery Wellington. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  9. 1 2 Stevenson, Karen; Vercoe, Caroline; Mason, Ngahiraka; Chiu, Melissa; Vivieare, Jim (2004). Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific. New York: Asia Society. ISBN   0878480951.
  10. ↑ "Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizon". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  11. 1 2 "Ioane Ioane". Tautati Guiding pacific Arts. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "I will sea you in Hawaiki, Mangere Arts Centre". Event Finder. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Whangarei Art Museum: JOHN IOANE | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  14. ↑ "Le Folauga". Le Folauga Exhibition. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  15. ↑ Webster, Kathryn (15 September 2002). "Making Waves". Sunday Star Times.
  16. ↑ "Pacific Arts in New Zealand". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 11 July 2015.


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