Aroha Fan

Original Painting by Justin Kite  (Ngati Kahungunu)

Dimensions: Unframed 700mm x 500mm
Framed in Natural Beech frame float mounted on white 82 x 62 x 4cm

My current paper works are heavily influenced by Maori and Chinese culture including my ‘fan format’, script and blue and white porcelain artworks. I gained a Bachelor of Visual Art and Design from The Eastern Institute of Technology. Graduating in 2004 I completed my Post Graduation Diploma in teaching Secondary Art and Art History.

I have taught Visual Art and Design in New Zealand and Shanghai, China for 14 years. Living and working in a range of different countries has been a major stimulus in my art-making process. I enjoy playing with the relationships and visual hierarchy of silhouettes and internal narratives to achieve contradictions and surreal worlds. Taking observations of diversity and everyday situations. I play with the multi-layers of societal contexts, attempting to highlight the complexities and randomness of post-modern life.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”.