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Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
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Jeremy Leatinu’u
Education Coordinator
Stories
from the
Pacific
Te Tuhi Pre visit
lesson 2
Welcome to Stories
from the Pacific
During this lesson we will learn about…
But before
we start,
let’s recap on what
Inspired
by tapa
we learnt during our last lesson…
is important to Pacific
culture. It is used for
clothing, costume, masks,
blankets, bedrooms and to
help celebrate birthdays
and weddings.
During our last lesson we learnt that
Polynesian tapa…
is made from the bark of the
paper mulberry tree. The
bark is flattened, dried and
then decorated with dye.
Pacific cultures have
different designs.
Sometimes the colour,
pattern, pictures and how
its made makes one Pacific
tapa different to another.
Let’s start this lesson by exploring ‘Inspired by tapa’.
Image:http://www.tautai.org/sopolemalama-filipe-tohi/
During
lesson
we saw
examples
of
During our
thislast
lesson
we will
see many
how tapa
inspires
Polynesian
famous Pacific
artiststapa.
and their art.
Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.
Fatu Feu’u
Fatu Feu’u is a Samoan artist living
in New Zealand.
Fatu paints flowers, fish, people,
masks and other symbols and patterns
that reflect his culture, his journey from
Samoa to NZ, his ancestors and his
religion.
Fatu tells stories about his life and
things that are important to him and is
inspired by Pacific tapa.
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.
http://www.internationalartcentre.co.nz/auctions/auctionEnlarge.lsd?a=201009&p=28
http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/resources/units/music_units/symbol_2_sound/images.php
http://cpitlibrary.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/last-chance-to-see-samoan-artworks/
http://nzprintmakers.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/fatu-feuu-14-23march-christchurch.html
http://www.clker.com/clipart-samoa-tatau-1.html
http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issue111/fatu.htm
John Pule
John Pule is a Nuiean painter and is
also inspired by Pacific tapa.
John likes to use earthy colours too,
and sometimes paints in a circle like
Nuiean tapa cloth hiapo.
John sometimes paints things from
his childhood memories. In this
painting we see symbols in boxes
that reflect his journey as a boy
moving from Nuie to NZ.
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.
http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/culture-identity-heritage/primary-sources/gallery/kermadecs/tomorrow-we-leave-john-pule-2011
http://byronic.tumblr.com/post/19812051133/take-these-walls-with-you-when-you-leave-by-john
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407844.The_Shark_that_Ate_the_Sun
http://nga.gov.au/islands/details/9869.cfm
https://www.thearts.co.nz/artist_page.php?aid=47
Dagmar Dyck
Dagmar Dyck is a painter and printmaker
of Tongan and German heritage. Identity
and culture inspire a lot of Dagmar’s art.
Dagmar combines her Tongan and
German heritage through her art by
painting squares and rectangles like Ngatu
(Tongan tapa) but using colours similar to
paintings by German painter Piet
Mondrian.
Dagmar paints pictures of cultural
objects that reflect her history and
combine both her Tongan and
German heritage.
Painting by Piet Mondrian
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.
http://www.artassociates.co.nz/artists/dagmar-dyck.aspx
http://www.aasd.com.au/subscribers/number_by_medium.cfm?concat=DyckDagma&class=3&year=2007
http://www.flagstaff.co.nz/news_views_detail.php?id=60
http://www.anthroposophie.net/bibliothek/kunst/malerei/mondrian/bib_mondrian.htm
Ahota’ei’loa
Toetu’u
Ahota’ei’loa Toetu’u is a Tongan painter
and is inspired by Tongan culture.
His paintings are inspired by the way
Ngatu can tell stories through pictures and
symbols.
He uses bright colours like red, yellow and
blue and orange, maybe to reflect how
vibrant and colourful the Pacific can be.
Ahota’ei’loa paints personal symbols and
uses bright colours to show his inspiration
of tapa cloth and to tell his Tongan story.
In this particular
painting the use of
black influenced by
ngatu ‘uli, a black
bark cloth worn
during funerals.
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.
http://urban-kupesi-tattoos.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/artist-loa-toetuu-solo-exhibition.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colourmefiji/324660619/
As we have seen, Polynesian tapa inspires many
Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…
artists in different ways to tell their story…
What have we learnt so far?
Polynesian tapa…
Inspires artists to tell stories of where they grew
up.
Inspires artists to make art about their culture and
community.
Inspires artists to make art about their ancestors
and history.
In the next lesson we will explore
‘Designing our story - Symbols’.
End of lesson