Dr Rangihiroa Panoho - Rangihīroa Panoho

March 28, 2017March 4, 2021

MĀORI ART tours

Maori-Kunst sprechen ‘Let’s talk Māori Art’. This is part of the work I do with international clients helping them understand some of the key areas that make Māori a unique global artform. The kaupapa of my kōrero follows aspects of the book ‘Māori Art’ but is specifically related to objects or architecture in the Auckland central city area. I used to walk around Auckland landscapes and cultural collections with students but I find working with the public (individuals or small groups) just as challenging and, in a number of respects, more rewarding. If anyone is interested in looking further at what our small family based company Pihirau offers visit other areas of this site and also look at my other contributions in the publishers public site for the book ‘MĀORI ART, History, Architecture, Landscape and Theory‘: www.facebook.com/maoriartbook/ or you could search my professional contributions on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rangihiroa-panoho/ or my Instagram site www.instagram.com/rangihiroa/ for creative work.

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December 22, 2016March 10, 2017

MĀORI ART book signing City Gallery, Wellington

Rangihiroa Panoho, City Gallery, Wellington ‘Writing Māori Art’ event Continue reading “MĀORI ART book signing City Gallery, Wellington”

December 11, 2016January 17, 2022

AWARDS ‘ngaa whakawhiwhinga’

‘Māori Art’ winner AAANZ book prize presented at the School of Art, Australia National University, Canberra, 3 December 2016 . This is an international award in the discipline of Art History.

Best Art Writing by a New Zealand Māori or Pacific Islander

($500 supported by Christchurch Art Gallery)

Jenny Harper Congratulates Rangihiroa Panoho as an AAANZ Award winner

This prize was awarded to the best art writing, whether in the form of a book, article or essay, by a New Zealand Maori or Pacific Islander.

'This is an exciting and innovative addition to the discipline of Māori and Pacific art history volumes. The expansive vision of the author deserves to be acknowledged and rewarded.'

Maia Nuku, Associate Curator, Oceanic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

link to full report in Nuku quote above or try the AAANZ net site below:

http://aaanz.info/prizes/

AAANZ annual prizes recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. The awards cover a broad array of arts publishing and acknowledge the contribution of both emerging and established scholars and artists. The categories include prizes for books, catalogues, artist books and Indigenous art writing. The prizes are sponsored by a number of universities, art museums, associations and publishing bodies around Australia and New Zealand. The prizes recognise the following. Originality and rigour of scholarship. Contribution to knowledge in the area and impact on scholarly debate in the field. Significance of the topic to the field and to adjacent disciplines. Significance and originality of arts research. Quality of the design and production values of the publication. Ability to convey complex ideas to wider audiences.

Ngā Kupu Māori awards, Auckland Museum 3 October 2016

Tracy Borgfelt, Batemans Associate Publisher (right) Kikorangi and Adrianne Panoho (left), Ngā Kupu Māori awards, Auckland Museum 3 October 2016

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Whānaunga Amokura Panoho (left) Kikorangi, Adrianne and Rangihīroa Panoho, Ngā Kupu Māori awards, Auckland Museum 3 October 2016

May 21, 2016February 28, 2023

PAST PROJECTS

A collection of creative projects in which I have been involved. There is no specific taxonomy employed here to make past work fit categories. I add them as postings as I locate and process the material.

FLIGHT CROWDS 1985

Camera: Neil Pardington
Lighting: Vivienne Smith
Sound: Gregory Brice
Sound: City Group
Figure: Rangihiroa Panoho
Research: Ron Brownson

Film Location:

film still — Ron Brownson, City Group, Flight Crowds, 1985

Reference # F38731

New Zealand Archive of Film Television and Sound

This was an early short film project that I was involved in. I was a 22 year old arts student at the time about to begin my Masters in Art History at the University of Auckland. Along with Tina Barton I worked one summer as a Research Assistant in what is now the Eric McCormack Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery. Brownson ran this resource at the time.

Ron Brownson, Vivienne Smith (lighting gels) and Neil Pardington (camerawork) Grafton villa, 1985

Two locations were used for the film. Much of the work centres on the technical effect of the various coloured gels used by Vivienne Smith to shoot intense closely cropped shots of the eye. All visually cooked up in the kitchen of Brownson’s 19^th century lean to on Seafield View Terrace in Grafton, Auckland. I have still have clear memories of floorboards in the house sloping because old piling and film for the project being retreived from an empty fridge. The last part of the ‘Flight Crowds’ involves imagery selected from a much longer section shot in Coromandel.

Ron Brownson, Karangahake Gorge Railway tunnel overbridge, Coromandel, 1985

This outdoor location at the end of the film involved a shoot inside the Karangahake Gorge Railway tunnel (site of the original Coromandel gold rush in 1875). The light at the end is the opening of the tunnel on the overbridge that majestically sits above the Ohinemuri River. Designer/photographer Neil Pardington did the camera work. Ron Brownson was obsessively involved in both directing and organising the shoots in these two very different locations. The film premiered inside an Auckland University theatre (Architecture I think) and, fashionably, it was not well received. The reception for me felt unusual because I was the private and anonymous viewer having my eye projected enormously and so publically as a central screen leit-motif. Long before the film finished people began throwing things at it. Perhaps today coins would not be the missile of choice for the more frugal twenty first century Kiwi student venting disapproval. Perhaps they might just resort to pulling out the i phone and writing an angry review!