education

It's time again to let you know about the wonderful variety of exhibitions on offer over the next two terms! From sheep, blankets and muskets to the Chatham Islands and collaborative artworks - we will introduce your students to amazing new concepts and ignite inquiring minds.

Don't forget our exciting permanent programmes including Schooling of the Past , Eco Art and The Drawing Clinic. The education team at Pataka is ready to assist with developing specific programmes that support and enhance any key concepts that you are exploring in the class room.

Above Images: Shintaro Nakahara & Yoshiko Nakahara Byobu - Folding Screen 2010, private collection.
Barry Ross Smith Roads End, private collection.

In a collaborative art work, creativity becomes a social activity. The basis of the relationship between the collaborators has to be one of trust and mutual support.

Bring your students to Pataka and explore some fantastic examples of collaborative art practice in New Zealand. Investigate the works of these leading contemporary New Zealand artists,including Robin White, and discover that exciting things can happen when creative minds work together!

We will focus on some interesting collaborative approaches to art making with your students. These ideas can be developed both pre and post visit. Double Vision is an excellent exhibition for modelling the key competencies.

Curriculum Links
Learning Areas: Visual Arts, Social Sciences.

Images from top to bottom: Hemi Macgregor, Ngataiharuru Taepa & Saffronn Te Ratana Tu Te Manu Ora i Te Rangi 2009.
Robin White, Leba Toki & Bale Jione Suka Siti (Sugar City) 2009 - 2010
Madeleine Child & Philip Jarvis ,Doodads and Doodahs, orange 2009
All collection of the artist.

Don't be sheepish! Come and see sheep as you have never seen them before. Explore this iconic symbol with us and discover the influence of sheep on our identity and culture as a sheep farming nation.

Major New Zealand photographers, printmakers, painters and sculptors including Brian Brake, Anne Noble, Trevor Moffitt, Andrea Gardner and Paul Dibble have all created art works paying homage to SHEEP. Many of these works and the subjects they depict are now kiwi icons and are seen as an integral part of New Zealand's cultural heritage.

Join us in celebrating, through creative inquiry, the contribution that these wonderfully woolly creatures have made to our nation.

Curriculum links
Learning Areas: Visual Arts, Social Science
- Objective examples: Visual Arts: Understanding the Arts in Context, Developing Ideas, Communicating and Interpreting, Developing Practical Knowledge. NCEA Levels 1-3
- Objective examples: Social Sciences   Level 2: Understand how cultural practices reflect and express people's customs, traditions and values.


Pre and Post visit activities

COLLECT as many images as you can of sheep and create a class montage.

RESEARCH the works of artists featured in Sheep.

HOW many other New Zealand artists can you find who have been inspired by sheep?

FIND OUT where the major sheep farming areas are in NZ are today and locate them on a map. What do you notice?

TALK about why sheep have become an iconic image of NZ.

VIEW the work of Murray Ball's ' Footrot Flats' and read some favourite stories about NZ's most famous sheep farmer and sheep dog

FIND OUT about calf club days. Many New Zealand kids have lambs and calves as pets.

FIND OUT how sheep have been used to market NZ and collect some examples of advertising campaigns.

FIND OUT about felting with wool. Create your own felted sheep or even learn to knit! Images from top to bottom: Trevor Moffitt Southland Series II, no.19, Rutherford Collection, Aratoi Museum.
Gregor Kregar Mathew 12:12, private collection.
Brit Bunkley Just Before Snow, private collection.

Come and view traditional examples of beautifully carved firearms, together with contemporary examples created by carvers and artists including Wayne Youle, Clive Fugill, and Michel Tuffery who are keen to continue this art form into the 21st century. This exhibition is a fascinating look at how cultures adapt to change.

Pu Whakairo is an exhibition that explores the fascinating Maori and Pacific tradition of carved muskets. Introduced to New Zealand in the early 19th century the musket was of great interest to Maori warriors and quickly became a coveted weapon. The arrival of the musket completely changed the face of traditional tribal warfare.

Curriculum links
 Learning areas: Social Sciences, Visual Arts, History.  
- Objective examples: Social Sciences Level 5: Understand how cultural interaction impacts on cultures and societies.
- Objective examples: Visual Arts 1.1: Investigate Maori and European art works from established practice.  
- Objective examples: History NCEA Level 3: NZ in the 19th Century: 1800-40.

images from top to bottom: Carved 1855 Callisher and Terry Carbine, Whanganui Regional Museum collection.
Michel Tuffery, Mock 1
Clive Fugill, Enfield Rifle, Replica

Nga Kakahu: Change and Exchange. A celebration of cross cultural expression in New Zealand that explores the art of Maori weaving from both a Maori and Pakeha perspective. Sculptor Jo Torr and weaver Roka Ngarimu-Cameron have chosen costume as a medium to explore this theme, drawing attention to the way both benefited from the exchange.

The works of both artists play off each other. Torr's suite of hybrid garments, made from recycled blankets, focus on the relationship between Maori cloaks and European blankets, while Ngarimu-Cameron's installation of finely woven contemporary cloaks and tartan kilts, created using a western loom, are a metaphor for the blending for the two cultures themselves.

Torr's garments are inspired by Alfred Burton's photographs of groups of Maori dressed in combinations of Maori and European dress - often European gowns with imported woollen blankets alternating with fine cloaks.

Come and explore a uniquely bi-cultural interpretation. Textile design teachers, this is the perfect exhibition for you!

Curriculum links
Learning areas: Social Sciences, Technology, Visual Arts, History

Having come from Eastern Polynesia, the Moriori are descended from the same ancestors as the New Zealand Maori. Moriori now live on the Chatham Islands, throughout New Zealand and around the world.

Over 500 years ago the Moriori developed a culture based on peace, living in harmony with the environment, and with each other. Nunuku-Whenua, a highly respected elder and Moriori leader, outlawed warfare and killing.

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the original population of Moriori on Rekohu (Chatham Island) was around 2500 people. By 1862 the population had been decimated; due to the arrival of European and invading Maori there were only 101 Moriori left on the island.

Our program will explore this rich and amazing culture.

Curriculum links
Learning areas: Social Sciences, Visual Arts
- Objective examples:Social Sciences Level 6
- Understand how the causes and consequences of past events that are of significance to New Zealanders shape the lives of people and society.
- Understand how people's perspectives on past events that are significant to New Zealand differ.


Pre and Post visit activities

FIND out who the Moriori were.

CREATE a time line that identifies significant events in the history of the Moriori.

FIND the Chatham Islands on a map. How many people live there?

CREATE a fact file on the Chatham Islands as they are now.

RESEARCH the carved kopi (karaka) trees found on the Chatham Islands and find images of them (rakau momori).

FIND out what is unique about the environment of the Chatham Islands, the flora and fauna etc.

INTERVIEW someone who has been to the Chatham Islands. Find out what is similar and different to New Zealand.

Top Image: Moriori at Manakau, 1870's, Canterbury Museum.

TO BOOK A CLASS, contact our education crew at the below number or email

Tel: (04) 237 3551
Fax: (04) 237 4527
Email: patakaeducation@pcc.govt.nz

Cnr Norrie & Parumoana St, PO Box 50 218, Porirua City.