1. Thank you for using this pre-visit resource. We believe this will help strengthen student learning leading up to and during your gallery visit. Due to the different versions of PowerPoint schools may use, please check for, and correct any formatting issues before you use this presentation with your students. Please check by viewing in slide show format before making any necessary changes. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me. Welcome Learning Experiences Outside the Classrom Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts Phone: (09) 577 0138 ext 7703 jeremy@tetuhi.org.nz Jeremy Leatinu’u Education Coordinator

2. Stories from the Pacific Te Tuhi Pre visit lesson 2

3. Welcome to Stories from the Pacific During this lesson we will learn about… Inspired by tapa But before we start, let’s recap on what we learnt during our last lesson…

4. is made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree. The bark is flattened, dried and then decorated with dye. Pacific cultures have different designs. Sometimes the colour, pattern, pictures and how its made makes one Pacific tapa different to another. is important to Pacific culture. It is used for clothing, costume, masks, blankets, bedrooms and to help celebrate birthdays and weddings. During our last lesson we learnt that Polynesian tapa…

5. Let’s start this lesson by exploring ‘Inspired by tapa’. Image:http://www.tautai.org/sopolemalama-filipe-tohi/http://www.tautai.org/sopolemalama-filipe-tohi/

6. During our last lesson we saw many examples of Polynesian tapa. During this lesson we will see how tapa inspires famous Pacific artists and their art. Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.

7. Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997. http://www.internationalartcentre.co.nz/auctions/auctionEnlarge.lsd?a=201009&p=28 http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/resources/units/music_units/symbol_2_sound/images.php http://cpitlibrary.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/last-chance-to-see-samoan-artworks/ http://nzprintmakers.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/fatu-feuu-14-23march-christchurch.html http://www.clker.com/clipart-samoa-tatau-1.html http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issue111/fatu.htm Fatu Feu’u Fatu Feu’u is a Samoan artist living in New Zealand. Fatu tells stories about his life and things that are important to him and is inspired by Pacific tapa. Fatu paints flowers, fish, people, masks and other symbols and patterns that reflect his culture, his journey from Samoa to NZ, his ancestors and his religion.

8. John Pule Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997. http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/culture-identity-heritage/primary-sources/gallery/kermadecs/tomorrow-we-leave-john-pule-2011 http://byronic.tumblr.com/post/19812051133/take-these-walls-with-you-when-you-leave-by-john http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407844.The_Shark_that_Ate_the_Sun http://nga.gov.au/islands/details/9869.cfm https://www.thearts.co.nz/artist_page.php?aid=47 John Pule is a Nuiean painter and is also inspired by Pacific tapa. John likes to use earthy colours too, and sometimes paints in a circle like Nuiean tapa cloth hiapo. John sometimes paints things from his childhood memories. In this painting we see symbols in boxes that reflect his journey as a boy moving from Nuie to NZ.

9. Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997. http://www.artassociates.co.nz/artists/dagmar-dyck.aspx http://www.aasd.com.au/subscribers/number_by_medium.cfm?concat=DyckDagma&class=3&year=2007 http://www.flagstaff.co.nz/news_views_detail.php?id=60 http://www.anthroposophie.net/bibliothek/kunst/malerei/mondrian/bib_mondrian.htm Dagmar Dyck Dagmar Dyck is a painter and printmaker of Tongan and German heritage. Identity and culture inspire a lot of Dagmar’s art. Dagmar combines her Tongan and German heritage through her art by painting squares and rectangles like Ngatu (Tongan tapa) but using colours similar to paintings by German painter Piet Mondrian. Dagmar paints pictures of cultural objects that reflect her history and combine both her Tongan and German heritage. Painting by Piet Mondrian

10. Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997. http://urban-kupesi-tattoos.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/artist-loa-toetuu-solo-exhibition.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/colourmefiji/324660619/ Ahota’ei’loa Toetu’u Ahota’ei’loa Toetu’u is a Tongan painter and is inspired by Tongan culture. His paintings are inspired by the way Ngatu can tell stories through pictures and symbols. He uses bright colours like red, yellow and blue and orange, maybe to reflect how vibrant and colourful the Pacific can be. Ahota’ei’loa paints personal symbols and uses bright colours to show his inspiration of tapa cloth and to tell his Tongan story. In this particular painting the use of black influenced by ngatu ‘uli, a black bark cloth worn during funerals.

11. Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far… As we have seen, Polynesian tapa inspires many artists in different ways to tell their story…

12. Polynesian tapa… Inspires artists to tell stories of where they grew up. Inspires artists to make art about their culture and community. Inspires artists to make art about their ancestors and history. What have we learnt so far?

13. In the next lesson we will explore ‘Designing our story - Symbols’. End of lesson