Ioane Ioane
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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] Ioane's art often depicts the coexistence of contemporary New Zealand and traditional Samoan cultures.[2]
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.[3] 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
Ioane was the finalist for the Saatchi and Saatchi Art Awards in 1996. [2]In 2005 Ioane won the Creative New Zealand Pacific Innovation and Excellence Art Award.[4] 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.[5] In 2016, Ioane was the Artist in Residence at the University of Canterbury's Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. In 2018, he was the Creative New Zealand Sāmoa Artist in Residence. [2]
His work is held in both private and public collections, including the Auckland Art Gallery; the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, England; the National University of Samoa; the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia; the Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland; and the University of Auckland Art Collection.[6][7][8]
