VOX365NZ – Ioane Ioane

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Ioane completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from Elam School of Fine Art, The University of Auckland in 1985. In 1996 Ioane, was the finalist for the Saatchi and Saatchi Art Awards and in 2005 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Prize for Innovation and Excellence Art Award. As well as recieving a number of public commisions, his work belongs in a number of private and public collections including the Cambridge Museum of Anthropology, England, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Tijibou Cultural Centre Noumea.
Based in Auckland, Ioane’s multidiscipline practice involves sculpture, painting, installation and performance and often acknowledges the spiritual and transitional nature of space (the va) as a place of transformation-birth and becoming. Ioane has commented, “Sacred spaces are not necessarily a church, but it’s a place where one likes to be in, a place of affirmation Resisting the label ‘artist’” Ioane insists, “life is too big and deep to consider what I do as being about art or describe myself in a singular way” … Original Article

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