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] 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.[2] 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
In 2005 Ioane won the Creative New Zealand Pacific Innovation and Excellence Art Award.[3] 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.[4]
In 1985 Ioane received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University.[7] 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.[8]
1990 3 Polynesian Artists, McDougall Art Annex Christchurch
References
^ abcdeBrownson, 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. ISBN9780864632906.
^Vercoe, Caroline (1991). Fale Sa. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN0864632347.
^ abStevenson, Karen; Vercoe, Caroline; Mason, Ngahiraka; Chiu, Melissa; Vivieare, Jim (2004). Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific. New York: Asia Society. ISBN0878480951.
