Ko wai ahau?: 10/01/2007

Cover Letter

Artport
Auckland International Airport
Auckland

Dear Jilly Greene,
I had the pleasure of visiting your shop last month and was impressed in the diversity of art that was available, and how it reflected the culture of NZ.
I am currently creating pieces that reflect the culture of NZ and would like to have the opportunity to exhibit these works in your unique gallery.
I am an emerging Maori artist and am currently studying Applied Arts at Te Tai Tokerau Wananga. If you are interested in more information and viewing other examples of my works, please visit kowaiahau@blogspot.com.
Look forward to your reply
Yours sincerely

Tane Matiu
whenuatoa @gmail.com

Jin Ling and Greg Barrow

was absent that afternoon

Kura Te Waru Rewi

practicing Maori artist

- Tutor at Te Tai Tokerau Wananga
- Exhibits within NZ and around the world
- Talks of pacific art history
- She draws her inspiration from nature and images from her religious Maori history (Ratana)
- Some of her art is from a Maori political view
- She also encompasses holistic values in her art with a great emphisis on intellectual property rights

Akke Tiemersma

Akke has a home studio in Ngunguru where she does pottery.

-holds exhibitions held throughout nz
-development of her work is inspired by nature.
-expresses that creativity is enhanced by having a good creative spaces to work in.
-workshops are also a way of making a income
-networking is a vital part in having a home studio
-the studio was built over many years without outside major funding

Kara Dobson

-was an architech, decided to find another career that wasn't so stressful.
-found that art was a stress free release for her
- opened a art store in Whangarei and called it Tuatara

- talked about business practices and work ethics
- believes when you buy and to sell you should double the price you brought it for and then add the gst
- the customer is the most important person if you want a successful business
- spoke of the importance of the Toi Iho mark
- Toi Iho is a registered trademark for authenic Maori artists working alone or callaborating
- be aware of overheads with owning a shop
- location location location
-$0-$2500 purchase bracket
-formimg good relationships with artists that supply her shop

Artist statement

"Ko nga kokona o te whare ka kitea"."Ko nga kokona o te ngakau e kore e kitea". Ko tenei whakatauki, he whakatauki ki te tautoko i te karanga o te ngakau. Te karanga o te ngakau ki tou ake hiahia. Ko te ngakau te tatau ki te Ao wairua. Kei roto i te Ao wairua te ngako o te tangata. I reira te wahi ki te kimihia, ki te rapua i te hiahia o to ake ngakau. Mai ou whakarro tuatahi, ka whakaaro i to hinerngaro, ka kitea ou kanohi, ka mahia to tinana, i taua wa tonu ka koropupu i te hohonu o to ngakau, katahi ka puta ou whakarro i te wheiao ki te ao marama, ka ora ai. Ko enei aku korero ki nga mahi toi a te Maaori.

ARTISTS ALLIANCE

ARTISTS ALLIANCE

-PROTECTION FOR ARTISTS
-INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
-PROFESSIONAL HELP
-MONITORING PROGRAMES
-COMPETITIONS, MARKETING STRATERGIES
-ABLE TO BE SEEN IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY
-ON GOING HELP AND SUPPORT
-THE MEMBER ORGANIZATION OF CHOICE FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
-THE ADVOCATE FOR THE VISUAL ARTISTS

Ellie Smith and Steve Biggins

Ellie Smith Talks "how i run my art business"

-Time management important
-Her and her husband work twenty hours per week
-Annual benchmark around $40,000
-Works at polytechnic
-Does bits and peices
-Gets contracts and jobs
-find niche market

-Gets to work in her studio two days per week
-Explores theme's and idea's
-Experiments and mixes black and whites, colour and photograms
-Trying to build up photography business in Northland
important to keep mind and research going after leaving polytech
-Do more learning and courses
-Have fun
-Run art work separatly from the business side

Steve Biggins

-Part time technician
-Glass blowing assistant
- Tutor night course
-Where do you want to go?
-What do you want to do whan you get there
-Commit to doing it
-Use work experience

-Steve gives alot of his free time and in return:
-Gained lots of learning opportunities
-find the tricks ppl find work and the mistakes ppl have made
-meet the right contacts and network
-being surrounded by other artists
-is able to do his own thing in his own time after work

Greg Spender Talks on Blogs

BLOGGING

-Decided to keep a blog instead of a workbook

-go to google
-search more blogger
-create account
-email account

-creation
-name your blog
-customise dashboard
-templates
-settings
-formatting
- use picasa
-pull photos onto your post
-make public y/n?

-publishing web address
-show date, comments
-site feed 50/60 ppl

ZERO: Cathy Tuato'o Ross

Organisation

-Initiated and collaborated by 9 selected artists from Australia and New Zealand
-3 emerging, 3 NZ, and 3 Australian
-Artists took on the job such as that of the curators
-Not a curate driven job
-There was no money given for this exhibition
-Used names that people knew to gain easier access to funding and galleries
-All input is from the selected artists
-Allow for slow movement
-Took 4yrs to created, the 1st yr was basically talk
-Spent 2mths in each gallery
-Touring exhibition around public gallerysfrom march '06 - august 07'
-Alot of research done e.g how to import artwork from Australia

Galleries

-The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu
-Southland Museum Art Gallery
-Ashburton Public Art Gallery
-Dunedin Public Art Gallery
-Manawatu Art Gallery

Funding

-Sponsorship
-Generosity
-Polytechnic Research Funding
-Kind Support
-Community Trust
-Donations
-Artists not taking fee for hanging the odd work
-Council Descretionary Arts Budget
-Sargood Foundation
-Creative Communities
-Exhibition Fees