UNIT: Keeping CoolPacifica fans (Ili).

Materials coconut palm leaf Materials coconut palm leaf

Purpose

•Conveys status

• Used as a cooling devise

•A screen to hide behind

•Of great significance to families

Examples of different fans

Ili Fulumoa in natural earth tones, handcrafted in Samoa using laupola (pandanus leaves), laufa'i (banana leaves), fulumoa on the edges, and Siapo (mulberry bark and natural dyes).

Ili Fulumoa, stylish, eye catching and one of a kind. Handcrafted in Samoa using all natural materials, laufala (pandanus leaves) and feathers of the moa (chicken). Both sides of the ili as shown are identical.

Lonnie Hutchinson

• Lonnie Hutchinson is a multi-media artist who has exhibited extensively

throughout Australasia and in exhibitions internationally. Her output,

which is informed by her Ngāi Tahu and Samoan heritage, regularly pays

homage to Pacific women and their traditional arts.

• Working across media including sculpture, painting, screen-printing and

performance art, Hutchinson's work is most recognizable for its signature

cut-out style.

Sista Girl, 2004 East, 2006, builders' paper

Virginia King

Mantle (The Guardians): Matter and Spirit, 1990. Salvaged kauri mantlepieces, oil paint and Damar resin.

3 pieces, each 1500 x 300 x 30mm. Collection of the artist.

Kauri Forest Canopy, 2000. Commissioned work at Botany Town Centre, Manukau City

Stem, 1994. Macrocarpa and copper wire, 1200mm diameter.

Private collection, Auckland.

Matiatia Frond, 2003. Macrocarpa and stainlesssteel cables and fittings.

Earth Sculpture, 2001-2002. 80m across, height rising to 10m

Fatu Feu'u

Ulu manu folau

FATU FEU'U Vi'iga poula: Adoration of Fertility Ritual by Night 2001

Woodcut, 559 x 1212 mm. (Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki)

FATU FEU'U Orongo 1992Woodblock on barkcloth, laid on paper, 596 x 490 mm. (Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki)

Fatu Feu'u

Matau, 1988 FATU FEU'U Tamilo I Moana 2004woodcut, 760 x 1070 mm.

Ulutoa moana, 1999

koru design

Some sources say that the curving stalk with its bulb shape resembles the koru fern.The koru may also resemble a curling wave as it crashes against the seashore.

The koru shape as an art form/motif/shape has been used by Maori artists for many generations. It is the most common design element found in kowhaiwhai patterns. Kowhaiwhai paintings decorate the ceilings of ancestral houses (whare whakairo) or

the walls and ceilings of whare kai (dining halls).

Gordon Walters

Gordon Walters investigated the use of the koru motif in his art work. He was interested in the repetition of the koru motif in Maori art and changed the motif from a curvilinear form to a strictly geometric shape.Walters has focused on black and white koru with • Straight lines• A rounded bulb shape.

Gordon Walters, Tamaki 1983 Screen print

Kahurangi, Te Papa Store Awhiowhio - Whirlwind Acrylic on hardboard  

Sandy Adsett

Sandy Adsett has explored koru motifs in his art work. He appreciated their simplicity and freedom to ‘push the patterns to their limits’. From his red, black and white palette Adsett explored other colour arrangements.Notice how he placed the koru motifs in grid boxes and repeated reversed and rotated them.

Task• Divide your A3 page into 4 sections.

• Pick one work by Virginia King, Lonnie Hutchinson and one other artist and redraw it, using either pencil, pen, or indian ink.

• Using the ideas from the artist models construct your own pattern and draw it in the last square.

• Cut your shape out from cardboard. Class combines their patterns together and hangs them from the ceiling.