 |
|
|
|
|
| |
Thursday 11 November 2004
Last night the five recipients of the 2004 Laureate Awards were announced during a special ceremony at the Westpac St James Theatre in Wellington. In conjunction with Arts Foundation Principal Sponsor Forsyth Barr and 2004 Laureate Awards supporting Sponsor Westpac, this is the fifth annual Laureate Awards and the first to be held in the Capital.
The 2004 Laureates are: Film Maker - Barry Barclay, Composer - Jack Body,
Visual Artist/Writer - John Pule, Ta Moko Artist - Derek Lardelli and Glass Sculptor - Ann Robinson
At $¼ Million - $50,000 per artist - this prestigious Award is the largest cash arts prize pool in New Zealand and the only private award to consider all art forms. "The Trustees were thrilled to be able give our Laureates $250,000 at this event," said Richard Cathie, Chairman of the Arts Foundation. "The Laureate Awards are intended to make a significant difference to the careers of some of our finest mid-career artists."
BARRY BARCLAY Film Director, writer
Born in 1944, Barclay is of Caucasian and Maori descent, his tribe being Ngati Apa. He grew up on farms in the Wairarapa. At fifteen he began studies for the Roman Catholic priesthood in Australia. After six years he left, returned to the Wairarapa, worked one year there in radio before joining a Masterton-based rural film company as cameraman. Four years later he joined John O'Shea's Pacific Films as a director of trade films, television commercials and documentaries. His documentaries of that period include All That We Need, an energy conservation cinema documentary which opened the 1973 Tehran Film Festival, and Indira Ghandi, a 60 minute documentary profile of the Prime Minister shot in India in 1976 at the height of the Emergency. Significant was the landmark Tangata Whenua series of documentaries [1974] about Maori life and culture. In late 70s and early 80s, Barry was abroad and worked on projects in Sri Lanka, London, Paris and Amsterdam. He returned to New Zealand to write and direct The Neglected Miracle, a feature-length political documentary on the ownership of plant genetic resources, shot over two years in eight countries. Barry then became the first Maori to direct a dramatic feature Ngati, which won best film at the Taormina Film Festival. In 1991 Barry wrote and directed the feature Te Rua, a fictional story about a group of Maori who set off for Berlin to claim back tribal carvings held in a museum there. His most recent film is The Feathers of Peace, a feature drama-documentary based on the Moriori people of Rekohu (the Chatham Islands).Barry has just completed a book -- Mana Tuturu -- on Maori spiritual treasures and intellectual property rights, now with the publishers. He is also currently editing a feature-length documentary, The Kaipara Affair, on what happened when one small community on the Kaipara placed a rahui over commercial fishing grounds.
JACK BODY Composer
Jack Body was born in Te Aroha in 1944, and studied at Auckland University, with further experience in Cologne and at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht. During 1976-77 he was a guest lecturer at the Akademi Musik Indonesia, Yogyakarta, and since 1980 he has lectured at the School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington.His music covers most genres, including solo and chamber music, orchestral music, music-theatre, music for dance and film as well as electro-acoustic music. A fascination with the music and cultures of Asia, particularly Indonesia, has been a strong influence on his music. He has also worked in experimental photography and computer-controlled sound-image installations. As an ethnomusicologist his published recordings including music from Indonesia and China, including a recent set of four CDs, 'South of the Clouds', field recordings of pioneer Chinese researcher Zhang Xingrong. He has been commissioned by the NZ String Quartet, the NZ Symphony Orchestra, and many other groups, and has written three works for the Kronos Quartet. His opera "Alley", based on the life of Rewi Alley was premiered to wide acclaim at the 1998 NZ International Festival of the Arts. In 2003 he was a featured composer at the 'Other Minds Festival' in San Francisco, and in 2004 he was honoured by a 'Composer Portrait' concert in the NZ International Festival. Most recently he was commissioned by the Atlas Ensemble (resident ensemble in the 2004 Holland Festival), and was a guest of the Encuentros 2004 International Festival in Buenos Aires.Jack Body has been an energetic promoter of NZ music, beginning with the early Sonic Circus in Wellington in the 1960s, up to New Music New Zealand at the Ijsbreker in Amsterdam in 2001. He has been the editor of Waiteata Music Press since 1980, publishing scores of New Zealand music, and has produced over eighteen CDs of music by New Zealand composers.
DEREK LARDELLI Ta moko Artist
Tribal affiliation: Ngati Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngati Kanohi (Ngai Te Riwai), Ngati Kaipoho (Ngai Te Aweawe). Born in 1961, Derek Lardelli is regarded as one of Aotearoa New Zealand's finest ta moko artists. For a long time, Derek has been prominent in explaining the revival of the art and its spiritual significance to audiences throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific. Each moko he creates is carefully researched to reflect the whakapapa, history and particular interests of the person receiving it. Although he uses modern electrical equipment his work reflects the deep respect he holds for the traditions of his ancestors. Traditional Maori society did not separate one art form from another. All were connected, flowing together into life, from the past into the present."The designs are based on traditional patterns, with leeway for artistic expression. Our ancestors had a high regard for creativity, and the right of the individual to create something new on behalf of the tribe."Derek's work as a practising ta moko artist is only one of many roles that he fulfils as a visual artist, carver, kapahaka performer, composer, graphic designer, researcher of whakapapa, tribal history and kaikorero. Derek also tutor Kapa Haka for the Whangara Mai Tawhiti Cultural Group. With an educational background in teaching, fine arts and classical Maori literature, Derek is currently principal tutor at Toihoukura (Maori Arts Department), Tairawhiti Polytechnic, Gisborne. He has facilitated and participated in numerous exhibitions and workshops both in New Zealand and overseas. Most recently, he was director of the Ta Moko Delegation to the South Pacific Arts Festival, Palau (2004), led a working exhibition of Ta Moko at Te Papa as part of the NZ Festival of the Arts (2004), exhibited his work in the NZ High Commission Exhibition in Singapore (2002) and in Kura. Derek is the chairperson of Te Uhi A Mataora Ta Moko Arts collective and is also a trustee of Toi Maori Aotearoa. He lives in Gisborne with his wife and children.
JOHN PULE Writer / Visual Artist
Born in Liku, Niue 1962, John moved to New Zealand with his family in 1964. a performance poet and artist, he is largely self taught and leads a double career as both a visual artist and a writer, He began writing in 1980 after reading the works of New Zealand poets, and has since published two novels, The Shark that Ate The Sun (1992), Burn My Head In Heaven (1998); with four books of poems, Sonnets to Van Gogh (1983), Flowers After The Sun (1984), The Bond of Time (1998), Tagata Kapakiloi (2004). John has exhibited his paintings as well as taking part in many performance/poetry readings in the pacific, Niue, Fiji, Rarotonga, Hawaii, Tonga, Rotuma and Solomon Islands. He began painting in 1987 and exhibiting in 1989, participating in the first important exhibitions to showcase Pacific Island art, Te Moemoea No Iotefa
(1990) and Bottled Ocean (1994). He participated at international biennials in Johannesburg (1995), Kwangju (1995), Asia Pacific Triennial (1996, 2002), Paradise Now! (2004), South Pacific Arts festival (Western Samoa 1996, New Caledonia 2000, Palau 2004). His solo exhibitions, Nothing (1993), Malika (1995), Born In Paradise (1996), Savage Island Hiapo (1998), Nine Bird Worlds (1999), Thanks to you Maui Pomare (2000), People Get Ready (2000), A Sequence Of Lyrics Dedicated To The Birth Of A Lighthouse (2001), I Had A Mind As Invisible As Light (2002), The Wind Reminds Me How Mythical And Palpable My Life Was Becoming (2003), Dazzling Worlds (2004) are in essence narratives of history and place, as in his novels and poetry, and are extensions to an on going project to record his family history into and an Aotearoa and Pacific context, combining elements of poetry, prose, drawing, printmaking and painting as a way to maintain his routes/roots to the Pacific.What is perhaps most remarkable about John's paintings - that really has no precedent in either Polynesian art or in modern western terms - is their fusion of cosmology, cartography, biography and corporeality. Peter Simpson, for example, has observed "that in his fiction he adopts techniques which are loosely but suggestively analogous to his paintings… that his work in whatever medium contributes to a multiple but unified
project: it is his impassioned vocation to record his family stories." (Landfall, Spring 1998, p.316)
ANN ROBINSON Glass Sculptor
Ann Robinson was born in 1944, at the start of the Baby boomers generation, in Auckland, NZ. She attended Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University in the late '60s, but dropped out along with many of her generation, to explore the wider world of life, as the hippy generation defined it. Learning to bake bread, keep bees, grow organic food, milk a cow and make butter, living in the country, along with her two children. This wonderful time of freedom eventually led to a strong desire to re-engage with the arts as a creative person. After a 15 yr break she re-enrolled at art school having been inspired to study glass practice after the establishment of the first glass studios in Auckland.After graduating she joined with two partners to found Sunbeam glass works in 1980, where she became as she says 'not a bad glass blower' over the next nine years. During this period she also worked on developing a method of casting and the results of this new way of working won her 3 major awards including the Philips Glass Award in 1984 and 1986, and the Winstone B8iennale Award for Craft in 1987.In 1989 she left the partnership to set up her own studio on the west coast, north of Auckland. This move enabled her to concentrate solely on casting.With some crucial support from The Arts Council of NZ, Galleries, friends and many loyal collectors as well as 'great dollops of good luck', she has over the last 15 years produced limited series of beautiful cast glass vessels, and established an International profile. On three occasions she has been invited to teach at the Pilchuck Glass School, in Washington State, USA, and has delivered addresses at numerous International glass conferences. In 2001 she was awarded the Officer of the NZ Order of Merit (ONZM)
2004 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureates join:
2000 - Briar Grace-Smith, Elizabeth Knox, Peter Peryer, Gillian Karawe Whitehead, Douglas Wright 2001 - Phil Dadson, Kate De Goldi, Michael Parekowhai, Gaylene Preston 2002 - Warwick Freeman, Shona McCullagh, Don McGlashan, Helen Medlyn, Jacob Rajan 2003 - Jenny Bornholdt, Neil Dawson, Michael Hurst, Humphrey Ikin, John Psathas
The Arts Foundation of New Zealand is a charitable Trust, independent from Government that invests in excellence in New Zealand Arts. The Foundation has a long-term goal of raising $100 million to be held in an endowment fund, with all income generated used to support the arts. The Foundation encourages private individuals to support this goal through donations and bequests. Further information available on www.artsfoundation.org.nz
If you do not wish to continue receiving the AFNZ Updates, please respond with "Unsubscribe" in the subject heading.
Angela Busby, Administrator
Arts Foundation of New Zealand
PO Box 11352, Manners Street, Wellington
Tel + 64 4 471 1374 Fax + 64 4 499 9383
Patron: Her Excellency The Hon Dame Silvia Carwright, PCNZM, DBE. Trustees: Richard Cathie (Chair), Ros Burdon, Eion Edgar, Sir Hugh Kawharu, Fran Ricketts, Sir Ronald Scott, Brian Stevenson, John Todd, Gavin Walker, Sir Miles Warren.
Principal Sponsor - Forsyth Barr
<< return to previous page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
