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Fiona Pardington "... Immortally Yours" opening 25 August
Fiona Pardington "... Immortally Yours" opening 25 August
'Paul's Poppy'
Inkjet print on hahnemule cotton rag
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fiona Pardington
'..... Immortally Yours'
25 August - 17 September 2011
{Suite} Gallery
Level 2/147 Cuba Street
Wellington
{Suite} Gallery is pleased to
present an exhibition of new works by Fiona Pardington, “
... Immortally Yours.” Opening on 25 August the
exhibition features six works made recently while Fiona was
in Paris completing a Laureate Artistic Creations Project
with the Musee du Quai Branly.
“I bought the flowers at the Porte de Clingancourt flea market in Paris and photographed them where I was staying in Rue des Levis, Villiers, Paris, in May this year.
"The flowers were remnants from an estate of a milliner who had died at an advanced age. They were in a plastic bag, squashed under a whole lot of old books and ephemera up one of the side streets at the markets. I had been researching a museum collection in Paris of haute couture hand made flowers. When I got to Paris I was unable to access the collection because the museum was being moved out of the city. I went looking at Porte de Clingancourt for the best part of a day as I had a feeling I could find something. At the last moment before I left I found them. I steamed and shaped them over a pot of boiling water and photographed them on a table in the lounge room.”
Fiona Pardington is New Zealand's premier contemporary photographer. She graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand with an MFA (First Class Honours) in photography. She has participated in many exhibitions at major institutions, including Christchurch Art Gallery (2009) and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2006). A major solo exhibition "The Pressure of Sunlight Falling" is currently on show at the Govett Brewster in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Born in Devonport, New Zealand and of Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe and Scottish descent, Fiona now lives and works in Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
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