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. 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.
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.
Education
In 1985 Ioane received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University. 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.
Selected exhibitions
- 2015 Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizon Auckland Art Gallery
- 2013 Mannequin, Lopdell House Gallery
- 2012 Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery
- 2012 I will sea you in Hawaiki Mangere Arts Centre, Nga Tohu O Uenuku
- 2012 Poly Wants a Cracker, City Gallery Wellington.
- 2009 John Ioane: journeyman artist and the Pacific paradox : a 25 year selective survey, Whangarei Art Museum.
- 2008 Samoan Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua.
- 2008 Te Tataitanga / Bind Together, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- 2007 Le Folauga Auckland War Memorial Museum
- 2006 Pasifika Styles, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 2004 Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society Museum, New York
- 2002 Pacific Notion, Whitespace Gallery Auckland
- 1999 Fale Sā Auckland Art Gallery.
- 1992 Bottled Ocean, Auckland Art Gallery
- 1990 Te Moemoea no Iotefa, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Whanganui.
- 1990 3 Polynesian Artists, McDougall Art Annex Christchurch
References
- ^ 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.
- Vercoe, Caroline (1991). Fale Sa. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN 0864632347.
- "Arts Pasifika Awards". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- "Whangarei Art Museum: JOHN IOANE | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
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- "Poly Wants a Cracker". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Poly Wants a Cracker". City Gallery Wellington. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ Stevenson, Karen; Vercoe, Caroline; Mason, Ngahiraka; Chiu, Melissa; Vivieare, Jim (2004). Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific. New York: Asia Society. ISBN 0878480951.
- "Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizon". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Ioane Ioane". Tautati Guiding pacific Arts. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- "I will sea you in Hawaiki, Mangere Arts Centre". Event Finder. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- "Whangarei Art Museum: JOHN IOANE | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- "Le Folauga". Le Folauga Exhibition. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- Webster, Kathryn (15 September 2002). "Making Waves". Sunday Star Times.
- "Pacific Arts in New Zealand". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- 1962 births
- Samoan artists
- Samoan sculptors
- Living people
- 21st-century New Zealand artists
- 20th-century New Zealand male artists
- 21st-century New Zealand male artists
- 20th-century New Zealand sculptors
- 21st-century New Zealand sculptors
- 20th-century New Zealand painters
- 21st-century New Zealand painters
- New Zealand people of Samoan descent
- New Zealand filmmakers
- Artists from Christchurch