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Pacific Journey: A Celebration |
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Valerie Hunton
HB/250x250/IllusCol. 132 pp.
ISBN: 9780908618132
This book by the NZ/Pacific artist Valerie Hunton is a celebration of her creative life in the Marshall Islands, in Micronesia and then in Fiji. In it she weaves her experiences with the voices of the Pacific people she met, the land and its history and the painting works that emerged along the journey. It is a creative and powerful tour-de-force. First learning weaving with the women of the Marshall Islands, she wove with weaving groups throughout the Pacific. It is her close relationship with these women that brought her into their everyday lives as they weave their mats, clean their houses, wash their clothes, prepare the food, attend to their families and take care of their sick and dying.Also woven into her journey is the land and sea - the stones and the ancient Lapita shards, the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean and its navigators. Featured in the book are sixteen of her major painting works, bright and resonant in colour. In these she quietly reveals a fascinating web of life mostly unseen by casual visitors.This book is the story of her Pacific life and her celebration of that journey. It is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary woman.
Note: about Valerie Hunton
Valerie
Hunton is well known throughout the Pacific as a weaver and a creative
artist. Accompanying her husband Rex in 1985 she began painting first
in Papua New Guinea and then in the Pacific region where she has been
working and living in many different island states for the last decade.
During this journey she has produced an extraordinary body of painting
and weaving works which are widely known, and mostly remain, in Pacific
countries. Her creative work is represented in select galleries around
the Pacific Rim, museums, cultural centres, public places such as
hospitals and schools, private collections, and with close friends. Her
work has been exhibited at the University of Hawaii, the ISLA Centre
for the Arts in Guam, the Pacific Festival of Arts in Samoa, and in the
Suva Museum in Fiji.
She currently resides in New Zealand.
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Women and Children
From Pacific Journey: A Celebration
by Valerie Hunton
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Lapita - Ocean and Sky
From Pacific Journey: A Celebration
by Valerie Hunton.
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