Tiffany singh

For our artist talk  for today we have Tiffany singh  who  is an artist born from Newzealand, her nationality is Indian, Maori and Samoan. graduated  in university with a bachelor degree at Elam  Tiffany did not know anything about   her background heritage.  During her art practice, she has worked her practice  through her  cultural differences. such as India, so during her practice, she went to India  with out  any knowledge  about the culture history, stayed there  for three in a half years, to learn more about  the indian culture, What we have learned  from Tiffany is that most of her work is through colours, In india colours are important to  their culture,colour  is sacred, each gave a meaning g or symbol,  in our  artist talk  she showed us photographs of of her work, such as the work through  casting with wax, her three religious icons, Indian, Maori and Samoa. The sculptures are cover by spices, and placed in a geometric  grid in the  floor  with rice and soil, Her sculptures of all types of religions really caught my eye, i love how her work is   base on faith,using wax sculpture is really a n interesting  and unique aspect through the art world. very admirable  how she represents  three variety  or nationalities India, Maori Samoa. which is very inspiring  to the art world.,

Tiffany's other work of the  wax sculptures, of the table of exchange,  found it  interesting, and  appealing,  how people would really exchange their personal value   for a wax sculpture, its something you dont see that often,  well actually this  is similar to Dion  hitchens practice from the installation  of paper ,  cardboard and other object installation,  although for Tiffany singh,  i really admire and respect her works, I personally love it. because of how she   creates her work through faith and  different religions. and how  the icons was made, oil paint. giving it a nice colour effect. i guess her work is base on  an exploration of her identity, know who she is, where she came from.

Debborah Crowe

Debborah Crowe, born  in year 1963 raised in Dundee scotland, an artist  at MSVA,  from scotland,Crowe's practice is based on acetechture  work.during  her artist talk,she  presented us of work she has done, art piece made out of fabrication, with technique of  weaving and turns. amd textiles, however it is often manisests in variety  of contexts and out put.During her practice she has done alsot of drawings through the body, whih she has interests of and creating distorted imagesof the body in a positive way,which is similar to emma Mclellan's work of mustation of animals.Drawing is really important to her practice, Debborah woud observe the body , planning is an aspect through her work.What i think of her work, it is  very  complex, way  through a graphical  view. Debborah uses allot of environmental space when creating her art works, 







If you look more closely  to the fabric, you can see  every detail and how much time and effort  she had to accomplish   these three  woven pieces . i really admire the time spent with these beautiful works, would be nice to wear for women's  fashion industry, im sure Lady Gaga would love to wear this for her music videos.
I love  how the colour of the fabric is a nice dark /light colour grey, it gives that really nice strong look to it which i like about this piece.







Debborah's work through architecture , i see that she uses allot  of computer graphic aspect and plannings through drawings,  she also uses allot of bridges and environment space and  recycled materials to create her work, it is interesting   of her to use recycled materials , but to thionk of it many artists uses recycles  pieces to create   art, for example, Dion Hitchens, his work of the installation of ther recycled paper, cardboard .  but still debborah's work has given me inspiration  to creat my own work and try incorperate    style and ideas.

Emma Mclellan

Emma Mclellan an artist who is  working through screen printing which she also has an  interest in history of  screen prints and books of animals,who  especially loves to think about odd animals like animals that are born incorrectly which i  find rather interesting and  bizarre why a female artist  would find  abnormal mutated animals fascinating  because most  females would react in anegative way.When Emma creates  her print works, she loves to use panel  rather than paper, because  she finds it much easier .Emma  draws animals mostly imperfectly and mutated , When she does her screen prints she uses  a soliwet techneque through her screen prints.Another way when she explores  her art is  that she scans the pictures of animals from a book and photoshops it and re mashes  and uses cut and paste when mutating the animals which she really loves doing.


Another Artist who works through screen print is an artist  name, Xavier Meade,  who is an contemporary artists he creates prints  through poster making, design poster of myths and legends  of culture beliefs of Christianity and stories. base from mexico and and english Maori. ,Xavier  collects poster  in year 1920s, year 1959 and is  an artist researcher. in Mexico the art work Xavier produces, are  all  hand drawn,  cause of  the issue of price of paper, cannot afford large paper for printing so they are drawn by hand, which is really difficult  to achieve a perfect image.Most art work were drawn in A4 size.

Dion Hitchens

Dion Hitchens bron in year 1973 nationality , Chinese and maori, Hitchens  is  a contemporary  artist, his theme in art is mostly   through engagement, collaboration with other artists and  creating wonderful art.

For Dion's art talk, he showed us his  art work he  had created with collaboration with other two atists  , James Ormsby and Bill Rilley. who are also contemporary artists, james i s  actually a postgraduate  in painting  but although he has  engaged  himself with  a variety of media. What  i like about Dion Hitchens , James Ormsby and Bill Rilley's art work is that its not some art work you don't see everyday, its rather interesting  in my point of view,because Im sure not everyone can create art like them. James Ormsby, his work with the z2+c he presented to our class, really got  me thinkingm what is that mathematical equation got to do with art, but when James Ormsb y explained that this equation is symbolised a form of an art piece and when i tried researching it myself, i got to the result saying that this is the infinite beauty of the Mandelbrot along with photos.

This work created by Dion Hitchens,  James Ormsby and Bill Rilley ,the diamond installation  is one of my favorite art works they have  created, this really dazzles  me, just starring at  shinny  objects catches my eye. I admire how they took so much time and effort  on attaching  each piece  all together  by using stainless steel, an laminated glass (Marquette). The installation  of the recycled  paper, drawings ,cardboard,  and many other objects and materials. the way  Dion placed each objects,  sort of random. as for  my opinion on this installation art piece , i f  find pretty dull  but  when you take photo of that installation, is really does look like a really nice fascinating  piece of art.  It is interesting how anyone can come over and exchange objects or materials  or just donate a very interesting way of making an installation  nice and creative.

Eldon Booth

Eldon Booth, is a film  maker,  in his films he tries to use  a variety  of  ideas  or techneques to  portray that cinematic field to   his filming. and  give it a that reality aspect  to it. One of Edlon's films, had created which i liked was, the scene where he filmed his grand dad at the hospital, where when he was filming that scene, i realised that it was sort of filmed  in a amature  look but in a way the scenes and the acting was pretty  good, it felt like i was  actually there in that scene , the way   he shot the footage having me to feel like it was reality. Most of  Eldon's ways in filming mostly used through  experimental elements , while using drama and documentary techniques through his filming and shooting his footages, with a combination of fantasy and reality.
One  film that portrays  the lines of fact and fiction, is  the Da vinci code, as in the film, how  Tom Hanks , the main actor of the film, discovers fact about the painting of the Da Vinci , a discovery of a secret  society for two thousand  years , which i think is absolutely  base on fiction. i guess i can  relate this film to  Eldon's work through illusions , how he achieved this is that he used editing techniques, one of the techniques he  used  was, split  screen shots and counter shot which is a  technique  where  one character is shown looking at another character..

The film Elephant by  Gaus Van Sants, is similar to Eldon's work,  through fact and fiction, and how Eldson;s  film with draw , where the scene  at the hospital , the video man is filming the situation, when you watch that scene, it makes you feel like your actually there and having that reality feeling insde.  Gaus Van saints  also has that feel of reality and having that feeling that yoru actually in the  movie.,

Leilani Kake

Leilani Kake a pacific  islander  who works through video installation, documentation .After years of working with at Tangata Whenua. television   she decided  to resign her application and decided to continue with here passion on art, through moving image, she  stopped working with television because  she never  got to do any of the work  her way. Leilani studied moving image at Manukau institute  of Technology , MSVA.Most  of  Leilani
work of installations portray  her culture and heritage  of being a cook island, her installations mostly reflect on

emotions through the human body of a women , for example of her work is , The four winds, the four winds installation portrays the culture of nudity  and try to show sexuality and power / history  of pacific maori women. Kake's insperations comes from women who  has conceived  cancer, mainly pacific islanders/maori women. what  also inspires Leilani  to do her art work/ installations through maori heritage  and her family.Her work The four winds was firt shown at the Otara Fresh gallery One of her other work she   has created with mobing image is a installation , usinga digital format with letters forming creative patterns that sort of  simbolises maori patterns and forming words. " Kiora  Orana ". Her work  on the video installation of her son swimming in a slow motion way. interests  me , plus the way it was  viewed, how  the water  was completely black, that effect caught my eye  and by giving it a legit video installation form. seeing that video  installation inspires me to try interoperate  an installations   like leilani's intallatioons of her child, (acient Tangaroa ,a  young god).

Frances Hansen -artist and lecture.

Frances Hansen is  an artist,  born in in New Zealand year 1962 , studied her bachelors of arts, at Australia for 13 years, with a permanent residence.   She has used collecting through her art,  using found objects and materials from her home and whatever she finds and what interests her, examples of  found objects  she has used were,recycled  bottles and used ready made art work, drawings created by her daughter  by doing so, Frances combined her daughters' drawings and art work, through her paintings. to create and form and art piece .[how do you use collecting in you life and art.?] you use  any found object that  you find interesting  or not interesting to create something new , and developing to a  more  aesthetic view   , try to use it to create art piece , for example, Frances, has used found object and images incorporating  them together,  and with the help of  the element of painting and text through her work.Another artist who  is similar to Frances hansen's work is an  artist name, for other  artist names that works with similarities with frances, wasnt able  find any artist who does same work as her..