Fiona Pardington
| Fiona Pardington | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Fiona Dorothy Cameron 1961 Devonport, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Education | Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland (BFA, 1984; MFA, 2003; DocFA, 2013) |
| Known for | Photography |
| Awards | Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2016), Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2011), Visa Gold Art Award (1991, 1997) |
| Website | http://fionapardington.blogspot.co.nz/ |
Fiona Pardington D.F.A. (born 1961 in Devonport, New Zealand) is a New Zealand artist, her principal medium being photography. She descends from three Māori iwi, (Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe and Ngāti Kahungunu), and the Scottish Clan Cameron of Erracht.
Born Fiona Dorothy Cameron, Fiona Pardington was brought up on Auckland's Hibiscus Coast, where she attended Orewa College. Knowing that she wanted to become a photographer from the age of six, Pardington studied photography at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1984.
In 2003, Pardington graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) and in 2013 graduated with a Doctor of Fine Arts in Photography. She has throughout her career held the position of lecturer, tutor, assessor and moderator on photography, design and fine arts programmes at universities and polytechnics throughout New Zealand.
Pardington's brother Neil Pardington (11 months her junior) is also a well-known photographer and book designer.
Early in her career, Pardington worked from a feminist viewpoint to explore themes of love and sex, the representation and perception of the body, and the construction of gender and identity. She specialised in 'pure' or analog photography darkroom techniques, most notably hand printing and toning.
In the 1980s, borrowing from early, highly romanticized pictorialist photography, Pardington challenged the social construction of the eternal feminine by making theatrical photographs of the female nude.
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