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Fragments of Empires Kunst Salon
26 October 2014
KUNSTSALON AND ARTIST WORKSHOP
NATURALLY
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Janet Laurence and Fiona Pardington
The artists develop ideas and frameworks for the upcoming project with MOMENTUM.
The workshop will follow the Time_Art_Impact Dialogue #6
More information HERE
ABOUT FIONA PARDINGTON
CV – Website – Fiona Pardington in MOMENTUM Collection
Fiona Pardington’s work investigates the history of photography and representations of the body, examining subject-photographer relations, medicine, memory, collecting practices and still life. Her deeply toned black-and-white photographs are the result of specialty hand printing and demonstrate a highly refined analogue darkroom technique. Of Ngāi Tahu, Kati Mamoe and Scottish descent, Pardington’s practice often draws upon personal history, recollections and mourning to breath new life into traditional and forgotten objects. Her work with still life formats in museum collections, which focuses on relics as diverse as taonga (Māori ancestral treasures), hei tiki (greenstone pendants) and the now-extinct buia bird, calls into question our contemporary relationship with a materialized past as well as the ineffable photographic image.
Pardington holds an MFA and PhD in photography from the University of Auckland and has received numerous recognitions, including the Ngai Tahu residency at Otago Polytechnic in 2006, a position as Frances Hodgkins Fellow in both 1996 and 1997, the Visa Gold Art Award 1997, and the Moet and Chandon Fellowship (France) from 1991-92. Born in 1961 in Devonport, New Zealand, Pardington lives and works in Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
Fiona Pardington’s still live series Organic is part of MOMENTUM Collection. More info here.
ABOUT JANET LAURENCE
CV – Website – Janet Laurence in MOMENTUM Collection
Australian artist Janet Laurence‘s work explores a poetics of space and materiality through the creation of works that deal with our experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world. Her work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. It occupies the liminal zones and meeting places of art, science, imagination and memory.
Laurence’s practice includes both ephemeral and permanent works as well as installations that extend from the museum/gallery into both urban and landscape domain.
Her work, centered on living nature, bleeds between the architectural and the natural world, physically and metaphorically dissolving these boundaries.
Her spaces are immersive and reflective, creating a play between perception and memory. Alchemical transformation, history and perception are underlying themes. Laurence’s work is represented in major Australian and international collections and has been included in many national survey exhibitions.
THE PHOTO GALLERY OF THE EVENT
(photos by Camille Blake)
