Fiona Pardington

Born Devonport, Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1961.
Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Kati Waewae, Clan Cameron.
Lives and Works in Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

1984 - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Photography) School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, New Zealand.

Website: www.fionapardington.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 - Southern Maori Rock Art, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

2005 - Without you, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, NZ

2005 - Eight Shells, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2004 - New work, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.

2003 - Revelation/ Whakakitenga, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch and McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand.
2003 - Te Tohua, Te Orongonui Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2002 - Mauri Mai/ Tono Ano, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ and Snowhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland, NZ.

2001 - One Night of Love, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ

1997 - Proud Flesh, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.

1996 - There's No Right Way to Do Me Wrong, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland,

1995 - Unprotected, Jensen Gallery, Wellington, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

1994 - Tainted Love, Sue Crockford Gallery Auckland, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.

1993 - His Vile Fancy, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.
1993 - Rising to the Blow, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.

1990 - The Journey of the Sensualist, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.

1989 - Night of the Senses, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland and Southern Cross Gallery, New Zealand

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 - Within Memory: Aspects of New Zealand documentary photography 1960- 2000 - Wellington, New Zealand.
2006 - Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Pataka's NZ International Arts, Festival programme, Wellington, New Zealand

2003 - Pressing Flesh, Skin, Touch, Intimacy, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, NZ
2003 - Te Puawai O Ngai Tahu, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

2002 - Slow Release: Recent Photography from New Zealand, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia and Adam Gallery, Victoria University
Wellington

2001 - Prospect 2001 New Art New Zealand, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2001 - Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland
2001 - Friends of the Family: The Bieringa Collection, Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ
2001 - Au Kaha Kia Kaha ; Strengthening the Bindings of the Earth, of the People, of the Soul, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2001 - Rukutia!Rukutia! Southern Maori Art Te Waipounamu House, Christchurch, NZ
2001 - 20 Key Works from the Paris Family Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
2000 - Haumi E! Hui E! Taiki E! A Ngai Tahu Visual Arts Exhibition, The Annex, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

1999 - Tino Rakatirataka Kai Tahu, Christchurch Polytechnic, Christchurch, New Zealand
1999 - Sharp And Shiny: Fetishism In Contemporary New Zealand Art, Govett- Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ

1995 - Cultural Safety, Aktuelle Kunst Aus Neuseeland, Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany.

1994 - Te Hono O Nga Motu Rua/ The Joining of the Two Islands, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1994 - One Hundred and Fifty Ways of Loving, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
1994 - Station to Station: the Way of the Cross, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ

1993 - Alter/ Image: Feminism and Representation in New Zealand Art, 1973- 1993, City Gallery Wellington and Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland NZ
1993 - Suffer: Suffering in the Nineties, Teststrip Gallery Auckland and Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ

1992 - Implicated and Immune: Artists Respond to HIV/ Aids Crisis, Fisher Gallery, Auckland, NZ

1990 - Now, See, Hear! Art, Language and Translation, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1990 - Constructed Intimacies, Moet and Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation Touring Exhibition

1989 - Imposing Narratives: Beyond the Documentary in Recent New Zealand Photography, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gregory Burke, 'An Indeterminate Surface' and Priscilla Pitts, "Exchanging Looks: Aspects of Gender and Representation in Contemporary Photography', Imposing Narratives; Beyond the Documentary in Recent New Zealand Photography, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ 1990 pp 7 -21

Gregory Burke, 'Cultural Safety', Cultural Safety, Contemporary Art From New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein/ City Gallery, Wellington, Te Whare Toi, 1995

Christian Huther, 'Cultural Safety/ Actuelle Kunst aus Neuseeland' ( Kunstverien , Frankfurt au Main), Kunstforum International No 131, August-October 1995 PP 378-9
ed. Hannah Holm, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Mountain View Publishing, 2005.

Giovanni Intra, 'A Case History: Tainted Love', Exhibition Catalogue, Milk Powder Press, Auckland.

Anne Kirker, 'Flipping the Coin: Fiona Pardington's Photo- Constructions', Art New Zealand, No 48, Auckland, New Zealand, Spring 1988 pg 47-49

Elizabeth Knox, 'Fiona Pardington', Pleasures and Dangers, Trish Clark and Wystan Curnow (eds), Longman Paul and Moet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation, 1991, pp 2-13

Gynneth Porter, Black and White and Dead all Over, Midwest, No 9 1996, pp 22-27

Peter Shand, 'Hei Moteatea', in Public Private, Tuamatanui, Tumataiti, The 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland City Art Gallery, NZ, 2004 pg 119-123

Allan Smith, 'Romanticist and Symbolist Tendencies in Recent New Zealand Photography', Art New Zealand, No 64, Auckland, New Zealand, Spring 1992, p 80

Rebecca Tansley, ' Family Ties, Portrait of the Artists', North and South, February 200, pp 24-25

Paul Thompson, New Zealand, A Century of Images, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 1998 pp162