Bill Riley.

The speaker for this week’s lesson was Bill Rilley. For over 30 years, Bill Riley has been painting and is now a lecturer at Manukau School of Visual Arts. From spray painting, to using paint rollers his process varies depending on the way he feels at the time. During the lecture, he talked about how “boring” painting gets at times, forcing him to experiment with different techniques and using a selection of painting tools.

The static nature of a painting and the idea of portraying a painting that seems to have movement incorporated in, or around it, also fascinate Bill. An instillation that explores how we perceive movement and colour inside a painting, is Bill installation “Frequency”. Bill used a CMYK mixing technique to apply colour to these paintings. Web Definitions defines CMYK as “The CMYK colour process is a subtracting colour model, used in colour printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself”. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some colour printing; Cyan, magenta, yellow and black” – Web Definitions. He used the CMYK mixing process to force the viewer look closer and to see how the viewer identify colour.

Bill spoke a bit about the influence of documentary films about artists such as Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso. The films depicted the artists as ‘puppets’, yet the film was suppose to celebrate them as artist and their practice. Bill felt a connection with the artist because he was previously a commissioner and has some bad experience from this. Bill is against this idea of “puppets” and has since developed into a socialist. Bill describes a socialist as “not a communist, it is more about treating people equally”. The inspiration form these films lead Bill to take part in a project called the 422 project.

The 422 project is the new focal point for Bill at this point in his career. He uses waste and recycled materials, rather than expensive fine art materials. Bill accumulates left over card from packaging companies, and left over paint. By doing so he embraces conservational Issues such as recycling and caring for the environment. Bill paints each individual piece of card and arranges them in stacks, according to colour and size. So far, bill has over 7500 pieces of individual cardboard. The 422 project is an interactive project and encourages members of the community to come into the gallery and arrange the colored sheets in which ever way appeals to them. The structures created from the interaction of the audience add a sculptural element to the project as well.

Steve Rood

STEVE ROOD

Although I was unable to attend Steve Roods lecture I took it upon myself to investigate and explore the art practise of Steve Rood. Steve is a highly experienced photographer, who is also a lecturer at Manukau School of Visual Arts.

Steve’s interest in photography commenced when he was a young child. The very first photograph he took was of a simple compost heap, which afterwards, burst into flames the same day the photo was taken. This incident inspired Steve to pursue a career in photography, as he was amazed at the idea of capturing images of objects and what could happen next, enforcing the idea of the ‘power of a photograph’. Steve first started his career in photography in London as a documentary photographer. As well as documentary, Steve has worked in fashion, advertising, food, still life and portrait photography, as well as design, which is such an overwhelming achievement.

Simplicity and elegance are heavily incorporated in Steve’s photographs. For example, the style of his over-exposed, out of focus fashion photographs, portrays the subject matter as a simple, almost invisible form. The figures seem so simple yet the out-of-focus effect lays a mysterious feel to the photographs. Another series of work that appealed to me were his “shadow Making Machines”. These works explore the shadows of the materials that they are made out of. The work focuses on the shadows that the light and the object implement. Each piece is constructed out of domestic items such as post it notes, a rake, jars, wire, plastic bag etc… Steve then inserts a light source inside, to cast out remarkable shadows on the surrounding walls. I like the way the different items cast a very unique shadow. I also find it interesting to know that this series was photographed/or made, using simple household objects.

“The Shadow Making Machines bring the darkness in everyday life to light. They urge us to closely look within the shadow to ascertain the light." – Patricia Rood, 2008

Although I have never been interested in Photography, I find it interesting to see the difference in photographs taken 100 years ago, until more recent years. Technology has heavily influenced the photographic world. Robert Cornelius evidently took the first ‘daguerreotype’ photograph of a person. ‘Daguerreotype’ is “an early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate. The shift in technology has allowed photographers to easily take digital photographs at the touch of a button.

Even though I may not pursue a career in photography, I appreciate the work that Steve’s achieves, and have realized how fast technology is developing, affecting not only the world in general, but Art as well.

Richard Orjis

Choose 3 terms and relate to culture the practice of Richard Orjis??

This week we had Richard Orjis come in to our lecture today to tell us about himself and his practices. Orjis is a kiwi born who was born and raised in Wanganui. Richard had graduated from Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburg where he had earned a BVA(bachelors in visual Art). And had recently graduated from A.U (Auckland University) at the Elam School of Fine Arts in 2006 gaining his MFA (Masters in Fine Arts)

Orjis worked for photographer and film maker David LaChapelle and had collaborated on a couple of projects with Cuban American artist Anthony Goicolea

On Nature and Beauty (Surface vs. substance

Orjis talks about how a lot of his works are based

around religion in some way. Orjis says that he doesn’t believe in

modernism… we are always connected to something else…

e.g religion,Christmas etcin this image i really like how he symbolizes the beauty of

humans. and how we are as beautiful beautiful as flowers.well thats what i think. The garden'

focuses on a group of works that use repeated motif of the orchid flower.in these images there

is a sense of danger and darkness but also the reality of natural wonders.The beauty of the

flower catches the veiwer, drawing them closer to the flower.

Overall with Richard’s work I learned

to look at nature from a different perspective and I realize that its shown me to see thing’s differently like why things look the way they do and the way I interpret how people are, syles of clothing they wear etc.

Deborah Crowe-One Idea.

What is Deborah Crowe’s “One Idea” made up from and how does it keep recurring various ways?

Deborah crowe is currently my drawing teacher for this semester and personally i really enjoy her pieces of art works, i find her peices very creative and very original.As a lecturer on the other hand I don't really enjoy her classes but still i think she is a wonderful lady to work with. In her works she likes to use bridges, weaving, space, containment, and construction in her artworks. For me I think that Deborah’s work is very interesting and looking at all of them I think for her “One idea” she like’s to use space and containment.

One artist Deborah was very influenced by was Caroline Broadhead a brittish artistwho majored in jewellery . Deborah likes the idea of how the body in the image is contained in by the neck veil you can see on this image. (Caroline Broadhead Neckpeice veil circa 1986)

Caroline Broadhead is a highly versitile artist .trained as a jeweller,she developed her practice beyond this discipline to work on a larger scale, with textiles, light and space.

In this image i like the idea of how she uses ideas and styles from her artist influences and creates her own series of works that became very original like this peice of work. (deborah Crowe Collared 1999)

another artist that Deborah mentions that was really influential in her artworks was Bridget Riley. I personally can see why Deborah is inspired by her because for me this is really amazing how she uses different colour threads and how its been constructed which forms these

beautiful lines of colours that just catches your eyes.

Bridget Riley is one of britain's best known artists. since the mid- 1960s she has been celebrated for her distinctive,optically vibrant paintings which actively engage the veiwer's sensations and perceptions,producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging.

And with this piece of artwork you can clearly see how influential Bridget Riley.But Deborah has once again made very original peices of works

Overall for me her "one idea" is about creating space of what u might be contained in. and i find that it really shows in her pieces of artworks.

Steve Lovett

Blog question:How has Steve Lovett's practice evolved over the period of his professional career?

For this week we had one of my favorite lecturers Steve Lovett come in to give us a presentation on his artworks and art practices. Although i did not attend that weeks lecture i had help from Alli who helped and explain in detail what had happened on tuesday and also gave me her notes to look at. For me personally i find steve's art and practices reallyinteresting because first of all how he is currently my drawing lecture for this semester.

Also because i know he has a great knowledge of art and artists and so i was very excited to see how Steve expresses and shows us the definition of what he calls Art.

In his first slide during his lecture wich Steve titles "what do i do when im not here"he talks about the concept of the passing of time, the transition and the loss of time. he talks about how printed images are the idea's he works around. And to him thats the idea of developing an understanding of the world, in this slide of art works Steve shows me that he has a lot of contemporary portrait work in his arwork that to me shows that steve has interests with identity

For this artwork (mother and daughter what can we say 1997), I really like that idea of how we only know ourselves through second person, and through our dialogues and interaction through our friends, lovers, families, and colleagues is an interesting concept. This artwork for me seemed to give that feeling of wanting and dealing with these feelings.

but coming back to the question i couldnt really answer it because i didn't attend the lecture that day and i wasnt really sure. but by looking at emit i found that steve began to use a more formal art convention rather than political style of work he began out with. Like with this image i think that he uses a different style of technique like for example the holes in the image, to me this give's that kind of 3 dimensional look to it. but i like the way hes used space the colour and its form.

Francis Hansen

Blog question-choose at least two things from francis hanson process list and explore in reletion to her practices



Last tuesday we had my drawing lecturer from last semester Francis Hansen come in and talk about herself her family and her art practices.She talks about how she tries to balance her life as an artist azwell as being a mother and how she combines her ideas around her surroundings with her family and her major.she talks about her 4 steps in her process of art making,and in each of these steps she has these list of methods.

I also really liked the idea of how she uses the gathering, composing and experimenting to her advantage for her ideas and art practices.during the lecture francis talks about how she has a passion for collecting objects,she like's to collect objects that she finds she can work with. wether she likes the shape of its form, the look of it or simply for material's use.the thing i find interesting about francis hansen's work is that she is very creative and original. I like the idea of her recycle use of materials aswell.She talk's about how she bases her work around the things that take place around her every day life.

I like the way she also tries to present her work in relation to where she is going to display them. and again i find that very original.Overall i didn,t really enjoy the style of her artwork but i like the idea of how she uses recycling to create her work.

Eldon Booth

Blog Question:Discuss Eldon Booths exploration of reality and illusion



This weeks topic was on moving image by Eldon Booth.this was my first time meeting Eldon on tuesday's class. because i had never done moving image before i found it really interesting to have Eldon Lecture us and how he began as an art student at M.s.v.a where we are now.Eldon talks about how he has a love for writing scripts, and how he dedicates his work on his interests of the idea in the difference between 'reality and fictionIn the Lecture i found Eldon very interesting to listen to, He talked about how he Graduated from M.s.v.a in 1999 and for me I find that cool because it gave me an idea of where my life could lead to with this course and How interesting the things i could do with a degree in B.v.a at the manukau school of visual arts, and also if he can do it than i can. In the lecture he showed us two of his short films that showed us the idea of reality and illusion for the veiwer



The first film he showed us was "Extract from Withdrawl".I really liked the idea of how he used family members as his cast for the short film instead of using hired actors. to me that was a good idea bacause he didn't have to waste any money on hired actors and would also be more comfortable being aruond family than people u don't no.In the film you see how the time slowly going on and on and you start to see the actors age, starting form the beginning is a young teenager(brother) who is seen smoking drugs, hanging out with his friends and also seen catching the train and then how it shows an old man (Grandfather) who is seen lying in the hospital bed.I liked how he uses split screen to show the two different timelines in the day and show the copmarison of the Grandson and Grandfather.He also talked about how he used the 'Amateure' style of filming using natural sound/music and the following behind them filming.much like a documentary where the veiwer is in the place of the camera and to also get to know both charaters through there actions.



For the second short-film he made a drama/documentary style of film. In the lecture during this film he talked about how a documentary on 20/20 inspired him for his style of this documentary. he talks about how he really liked the camera angles, sound and lighting that was used in that documentary and had decided to use similar ideas for his short film .but overall i like his work and find moving image very interesting

Dion Hitchens

On Tuesday we had Dion Hitchens come in to our class to show us and explain his art work and practices. Although he was only in class for an hour, one of his artworks that I found really interesting was the maunga artwork that is displayed in Manukau. He talked about how he had built the monument in his back yard making it out of stainless steel and had to use a crane to move it from his backyard to Manukau. The thing that I find interesting about that particular piece of artwork is that I’ve always known about the sculpture and I always see it at Manukau every time I’m there but now I actually no who created it “Dion Hitchens” and it amazes me because he is currently my lecture for sculpture and so every time i see him i no that he created this sculpture. He talked about how the image of his sculpture was inspired by this mountain in Tahiti called maunga and also how Auckland city is where the largest population of Polynesians Live, and so now not only do I no who created it but I also no about the significance backround of why this sculpture had being created the way that it was.

Being Maori /Asian he talked about how his practices are based around his culture. also in one of his artworks he says that even though he loves his Maori culture and background his religious faith comes from his Asian descent being of Buddhist faith.

For collaberation one of his artworks that I also found interesting was the “Tiki Wanaga” which was a sculpture that is currently hung up at the Onehunga community centre and library. For this artwork he collaborated with Charles Koroneho , Each piece of Sculpture is made from aluminium and lashed with fibreoptic cable that lights up in blue and white. His sculpture was inspired by traditional Maori objects used by Priests to obtain Knowledge, it also represented the combination of traditional Maori art and new technologies

Failing,Falling,Flying by Rebecca Ann Hobbs

We attended the failing falling flying exhibition by Rebecca Ann Hobbs at the A.U.T Art gallery on St Pauls street on the 27 of July. For me personally I didn’t really find much of her work that interesting, because I couldn’t really relate to her artwork. Although one of the images at her exhibition that stood out for me the most was called 90 Degrees. I found this piece of work really interesting because it shows us how the male on the image is lying down face up looking inside the skirt of the woman who is seen standing on the photo. For me that image is kind of feminist in a way but imp not sure. After looking through her exhibition we got together and listened to her and how she brought about the images she has at her exhibition Rebecca talks about the word absurd and for her it holds the idea of “strife to find meaning in this world, but how she has never been able to find it “. She talks about how she had been inspired by the idea from Sisyphus, who had been punished by God to push this huge rock up this hill, once Sisyphus was at the top of the hill God would then forcibly roll the huge rock back down the hill and would be repeated for eternity. Rebecca then talks about how a lot of her earlier works were just muck around work because the fact that they didn’t really have much meaning to them and that’s why the names of her works at her exhibition are very simple and literal

The second exhibition that we attended was at the auckland art gallery. The walter's prize was a 50,000 doller reward that had been selected for four nominees. In my opinion I thought that none of them should have won because of the fact that all there works were really crap and I simply had no interest in them.but because we had to choose one of them I think that Fiona Conner's work “Something Transparent” should have won the walter's prize award. I found it really interesting because of the fact that she had made an exact replica of the ceiling above her work using plastic and acrylic. It was an awesome piece of artwork

He taonga Maori Auckland Museum

The Hotunui marae

Over 1000 taonga are displayed in the main Maori galleries, He Taonga Maori (Maori Court) and Te Ao Turoa (Maori Natural History Gallery) and many more are held in storage. These Taonga are the ancestral representations of all the major tribes of Aotearoa. The Taonga provides the Moari people with a little glimpse of their past, the history and the people that came before them. In the Maori court the one thing that really stood out for me was the Hotunui Marae.The Hotunui marae was built in 1878 which it was carved by Wepiha Apanui and his father Apanui Te Hamai waho. Hotunui was originally a wedding gift from Ngati awa to Weipiha's sister Mereana who was marrying a Ngati Maru leader, now it stands in the auckland museum to this present day. A Marae is a sacred place for Maori's. it is a sacred place which serves both religious and social purposes in maori societies, which carries great cultural meaning. In Maori society, the Marae is a place where the Maori culture can be celebrated, where the Maori language can be spoken, where inter tribal discussions, debating and obligations can be met .Also Marae's are for when family occasions such as birthdays can be held, and where important ceremonies, such as welcoming visitors or fare welling the dead, can be performed.The word marae is found in many languages in the Polynesia example Malae (Samoan and Hawaii) and Mala'e (tongan) and you find Malae's or mala'es in Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii, its just not structured or built the same way. also In Tahiti Marae were dedicated to specific deities or leaders of the people, and also connected with specific lineages said to have built them during the 1994 restoration of Taputapuatea Marae at Ra'iatea by archaeologists from the tahiti museum. so you find Marae's not only in aotearoa but also all over the pacific nation. overall the Marae at the museum shows the real significance of maori cluture and the way they have been using sculptue to theiir cultural heritage to design such a beautiful building that they call the Marae.

Tongan style.

artists- Lingisiva ‘Aloua, Kolokesa Kulīkefu, Noma‘Ofa-ki-Nu’usila Talakia’atu, Manuēsina Tōnata, Hūlita Tupou

Curated by: Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai & Manuēsina Māhina

This exhibition that we attended (Tefisi style) at the fresh gallery was held in Otara. Fresh art gallery is made and viewed for young pacific Islanders, it allows young artists who are mainly local to view their artwork not just anywhere but in otara. Tefisi gallery was about 5 tongan New Zealand-based women artists who had something to show about were they come from and their cultural heritage. Each piece of artwork that they had made and displayed was about their labour, time and of their Tongan tradition, Tefisi style is just about the art practices of tongan woman who use these talents and skills that they have been passing on for generations to create embroidery and crochets sheets, pillow cases and dresses. the dresses that was designed in the Tefisi artwork was used and designed to be worn in churches, funerals, christenings and other special occasions.. The dresses can also show a persons status, like number nine of the exhibition list where u have an outfit that was specially made for Sepitema - a special Sunday in September that is dedicated to woman who have reached the equivalent of men's lay preacher, where they renew their governance with God . Also to wear a kiekie (waist ornament) is also an important part of the formal attire for Tongan's to wear at church for example the Tongan Methodist church. The real uniqueness of these pieces of art work is that embroidery is applied to clothing,giving that distinct look known to the Tongans as Tefisi style. and the embroidery is now done on cotton sheets unlike the traditional ways which it was done on cloth made of bark, also known as tapa cloth.embroidered pillowcase was used in January 2001 by Kolokesa's late father during the period prior to his passing. It was also used to decorate the pillows for her sons wedding when he got married in 2007.

Star Wars

In our tutorial we watched the movie starwars "A new hope" and had to choose a character that we thought we had found interesting. For me the character i found the most interesting would have to be Darth Vader because i find him an exciting character to watch not only because he was an ex jedi but because he was a villian an a traitor. Darth Vader was the scourge of the jedi, a master of the dark side of the force, and one of the emperors most trusted servants.Darth Vader was once part of the rebel alliance but soon became an alliance of the rebel force.Darth vader tries to recover the stolen plans of the death star and find the rebel alliances secret base, and in doing that he shows how powerful he really is and takes over this ship and captures princess Leia organa. he restrains her and shows her the power he has when he destroys her home world of alderaan. Another part of the film that shows darth vaders power was when he has a light saber duel with his former master obi-wan kenobi , darth vader emerges victorious. evan though the movie shows you that obi-wan kenobi sacrifices himself for luke and his friends to escape, I still think darth vador won fair and square haha.Darth vador has also showed in many other star war trilogies such as the first star wars IV, V ,VI and now in the latest star wars film "the revenge of the sith. In this film its about how young Anikan Skywalker betrays the jedi's and becomes part of the dark side of the force. ultimately to his fall in the battle against Obi-Wan Kenobi, it was eventually the new birth of Darth Vader.

The 4th Auckland Triennal

The Singing Cloud!

At the 4th Auckland Triennal one of the many collections of art works that stood out for me the most at this art gallery was the singing cloud. Created by Shilp Gupta the singing cloud transforms an audio of technology into a looming mass, weirdly reminisints of a bomb or a mushroom cloud. The singing cloud was made up of four thousand microphones wich it made multiple layers of sounds and voices. For me though the sounds and noises coming from the singing cloud gave me shivers up my spine,because of the fact that all these noises were going off from time to time. It gave that sense of feeling almost as if i was being watched or talked about by something that wasn't really there, given the fact that the room was dark, It made that effect of it much more realistic. But still i found the singing cloud amazing and very creative. so i really admire and appreciate Shilp Gulta for this piece of artwork. Shilpa Gupta was born in Mumbai ,India 1976. She studied sculpture at the sir J.J. school of fine arts from 1992-1997. Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects, sound and photographs.In 2004 she received two awards for her amazing artwork, one was the sanskriti pathisthan award in new Dehli, and the international artist of the year award from the south asian collectives in Canada.

The Male Gaze part1

For me personally we can all relate to the term gaze because we all do it. we can't help but look at something that looks fascinating and attractive,because it attracts our attention.We all no that its naturally in us to do this!!. we can't help but to take a look at the curves of a woman, because it is something we enjoy. The male gaze expresses an unequal power between the veiwer and veiwed or the gazer and gazed, example when a man would impoze his unwanted gaze upon a woman, its up to the woman wether or not they welcome the gaze. so we all no that it is naturally in us to gaze like this!!. We can't just carry on walking by without taking a look at the curves or figure of a woman. So to me personally the male gaze is such an interesing thing to do because from a womans point of veiw it makes them fell attracted and noticed!!..well thats what i think.............



Tutorial "vertigo" by Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

In the movie"Vertigo" by alfred hitchcock we explore more about"the male gaze in this movie. The movie Vertigo is about an ex private investigator (John) who gets asked from his good friend to follow this woman(Madeline), his friends wife, during the half hour of this movie. They would always show us the veiw of John as he follows around this woman Madeline. Madeline would be followed to many different places by John never to be gazing back at him even though she knew he was there. Although in this one scene of the film Madeline who was still being followed at the time, takes John to this art gallery and Madeline is sitting down on this chair gazing at this image. John who had still been follwoing her notices that in the art gallery the image that Madeline seems to gazing at seems to be gazing right at John. He then also notices that this painting they are both gazing upon seems to what looks exactly like Madeline. So John decides to further on his investigation not only on Madeline but also on this Painting. He later on comes to find out that the painting that was in that gallery was a painting of a woman who had passed away, and realises that Madeline was trying to reinact the life of this woman.

10 good reasons

The author Justin Paton in the chapter ten good reason talks about how art is formed. "What is Art" he says how art is formed is a mysteriously pleasing arrangement of shapes and colours. He also talks about how art is made and why they seduce us. He says when people ask the question "What is art" they would always ask for his or hers list of top ten artworks.so he talks about his favourite top ten artwork. for me his top ten choices I thought were really cool because I found that he had really studied heaps about these ten paintings and describes them really well.

my Top 5

1)Rugby league

The reason why i chose Rugby league was because i play rugby league and i enjoy it. i find it an interesting sport because its really physical and it brings out your mental well being as well. allot of my friends are really into rugby league as well so to me it drives me to train harder and become a better sports player, to be the best i can be at it

2)P.S.3

my second choice was play station 3.the reason why i chose this was because i really love my gaming. I like the fact that u get to play graphical games that lets u

control a character in the game and at the end of your time playing you no its close to reality but at the same time its not. So it lets you be anyone or anything that you can be knowing that it wont affect you in real life.

3)Ub40

I chose Ub40 because i like Raggae and to me Ub40 are a really interesting band. I love the way there beats sound and the main singer Ali Campbell sings. He has a very unique voice that still to this day i love Even though the band itself debut back in the 1970s.

4) tattooing

my 4th choice was tattooing i really like tattoo because allot of my family have tattoos. for me tattooing symbolizes what people are really feeling and because people don't like to talk about so they decide to show their expressions or feelings in their tattoos. i also like to draw and hopefully one day I could practise tattooing myself

5) Homer simpson

And my final choice that i had chose was homer simpson. the reason why i chose him because first of all he's my all time favourite character on any cartoon programme. i like the fact that he's

really funny and that he also dumb. so the two put together makes one funny comedian