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Fiona Pardington

b. 1961

Fiona Pardington has been a graceful and elegant presence in New Zealand art since she first won the Visa Gold Award for 'Soft Target' in 1991. Nowdays there are few awards left to bestow upon her; she won the Visa Gold Award again in 1997, the Moet and Chandon Fellowship in 1991-2, the Frances Hodgkin's Fellowship twice (1996 and 1997) and was the inaugural Ngai Tahu Artist in Residence in 2006-7. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1984 she was awarded a Master of Fine Arts (first class honours) in 2003 and is currently working towards a PhD. She has featured in influential national and international exhibitions and is undoubtedly recognised as a leading figure of New Zealand photography.

This roll call of credentials and achievements are evidence of her enduring appeal, from all spectrums of the art world, locally and abroad. She combines a refined and classic aesthetic with a mastery of the 'old-world' traditions of analogue photography (handprinted and toning). This is the basis upon which she creates haunting laments, most recently of museum artifacts which have been lost in the annals of history.

 

 

Portrait of a life cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa New Zealand
2010
pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, edition of 10
1400 x 1760mm

Portrait of a life cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa New Zealand (detail)




Portrait of a life cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa New Zealand (installation)




Kereru Wings, Waiheke
2010
archival digital print, edition of 10
775 x 2240mm

Kereru Wings, Waiheke (detail)




Kereru Wings, Waiheke (installation)




Gold Nymph, Paris
2010
digital photographic print, edition of 10
1135 x 860mm

Gold Nymph, Paris (detail)




Gold Nymph, Paris (installation)




White Nymph, Paris
2010
ink-jet print, edition of 5
1135 x 860mm

White Nymph, Paris (detail)




White Nymph, Paris (installation)




Girl with Freckles, Paris
2010
ink-jet print, edition of 5
1135 x 860mm

Girl with Freckles, Paris (detail)




Girl with Freckles, Paris (installation)




Stone Beauty, Paris
2010
ink-jet print, edition of 5
860 x 1135mm

Stone Beauty, Paris (detail)




Stone Beauty, Paris (installation)




The Charlotte Jane
2009
c - type print on metallic paper, edition of 5
1800 x 1200mm

The Charlotte Jane (installation)




Laughing Owl
2006
handprinted silver gelatin print, edition of 5
935 x 785mm

Laughing Owl (installation)




Huia Lovers (male huia)
2004
silver gelatin print, ed. 3/5
600 x 500mm

Huia Lovers (male huia) (installation)




Huia Feather, Whanganui Museum
2008
digital photographic print, edition of 10
600 x 500mm

Huia Feather, Whanganui Museum (installation)




Nahau Tenei Manawa/This Heart is Yours
2009
c - type print on metallic paper, edition of 5
800 x 600mm

Nahau Tenei Manawa/This Heart is Yours (installation)




Manaia Faced Heitiki, Okains Bay Maori & Colonial Museum
2002
silver gelatin print, edition of 5
600 x 500mm

Manaia Faced Heitiki Okains Bay Mori & Colonial Museum (installation)




Quai Branly suite of nine hei tiki
2004
nine contact prints, edition of 10
1300 x 300mm



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