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| Matakana Pictures Exhibitions Artists | Fiona Pardington was born Fiona Dorothy Cameron in 1961 in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand and is of Scottish (Clan Cameron of Erracht) and Maori (Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe) descent. In 1984 she graduated from the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts with a Bachelors Degree specialising in Photography and since that time has established herself at the forefront of a generation of New Zealand artists using photography as their principal medium. She graduated with an MFA (1st class honours) in Photography in 2003. Fiona is beginning her doctorate in 2005. Fiona Pardington’s fields of investigation have been psychoanalysis, medicine, voyeurism, memory and the body, the history of the photographic image and the nature of the relationship between the photographer and subject, particularly as it relates to sexual difference, through the ambiguities of a simultaneous solicitation and resistance. She is best known as a specialist in ‘pure’ or analogue photographic darkroom technique, most notably hand printing and toning. Most recently her photographs have returned to the formality of the photographic still life, particularly in relationship to whakapapa and surrounding issues of immanence, exploring the continuum of whakapapa, taonga as embodiment and ‘absolute access’ to tipuna, researching especially in relation to moko mokai, which the photographic portrait has replaced as the contemporary site of both mourning and memory for Maori. |
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Fiona Pardington 40 e-whekau-1 2004 |
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Fiona Pardington 41 e-pakiti-&-toheroa-2004 |
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