Tamatea - ART

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The VISION

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With such a large area the conservation task doesn’t just fall on the Department Of Conservation but is avidly supported by the community and businesses operating here.

Overall the Tamatea/Dusky Sound restoration plan has been developed by DOC with the ambitious goals of eradicating pests, re-introducing missing species and filling biodiversity information gaps in the area. The project area includes Breaksea Sound, Acheron Passage, Wet Jacket Arm, and Dusky Sound itself, including over 700 islands, including New Zealand’s fifth largest island, Resolution Island.

Our vision is for Tamatea Dusky Sound to be one of the most intact ecosystems on Earth, and New Zealand's largest ‘bio bank’ – a source of endangered native species that can be sent to pest free locations throughout the country.

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Thank you for allowing ART to contribute to that vision..

ART supporting Conservation

The Works

Tamatea ArtistS

The MAGIC

Jo Ogier

Her work is concerned with issues of conservation, ecology and the individual's role in nurturing, protecting and preserving our fragile world. It seeks to raise awareness of the unique and awe inspiring beauty of the landscape, the many endemic species of flora and fauna, plus the fragility of the ecological systems within it. She works full-time as a practicing artist and lives in Sumner, Christchurch.

She has a Master of Fine Art from the Otago School of Art (2000) and a Graduate Diploma in Plant and Wildlife Illustration (NSW Australia, 1995).Since 1992 she has exhibited extensively and completed a number of large-scale commissions for the Otago Museum, The Nelson Provincial Museum/ Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao and the Department of Conservation/ Te Papa Atawhai – Aoraki/ Mount Cook Visitors Centre. Her work is held in many private and public collections throughout the country can also be view through her website www.JoOgier.co.nz.

"For me Tamatea/ Dusky Sound in Fiordland is such an incredibly unique and special place. It is a place that enriches the body and mind, fills the soul, and inspires the hope that we can protect, preserve and nurture the environment around us.

Supporting a project with the vision to restore Tamatea to “one of the most intact ecosystems on the earth” is an exciting prospect. It requires a team effort, which I am happy to be part of.

This work was created as a response to the wonderful opportunity of visiting Tamatea/ Dusky Sound with “Pure Salt” on board the vessel “Flightless” in November 2019. This adventure allowed me to explore some of the underwater environment through snorkeling, something I hadn’t done for such a long time. It emphasised to me the incredibly rich diversity under the waterline, an environment as fragile and precious as the land and sky above. It was also clear to see the importance and result of the introduction of Marine Reserves to the area. In this work I have used an old nautical map to reference the rich and diverse history of Tamatea and its exploration. The map also allowed me to embed landscape drawings form the expedition and float imagery of much of the flora and fauna we experienced."

NZ$ 9,500

Original work

"Tamatea Dusky Sound - The Journey"

Size |  1260 x 950mm    

NZ$ 480

Limited edition prints  

Giclée Prints 308gsm

Size |  540 x 760mm    

Kai Hau Kai

Simon Kaan | Ron Bull

Part of the Kaihaukai Art Collective agenda is to use food and art as a storytelling tool to connect people to place and identity.  We want to move people through the process of just viewing art as a passive form of consumption into the active process of actually consuming the work as food.  The opportunity to tell the story of Tamatea / Dusky Sound was one that was too good to miss!

"On Tuesday the 3rd of March the Kaihaukai Art Collective, Ron Bull and Simon Kaan and friends, completed an food installation at Te Papa Museum in Wellington. This was part of the official programme at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts and a response to the art installation Tamatea: Legacies of Encounter.  

We decided to break the menu into four component parts, each telling about period of encounter through the medium of food.

The first course related to the time before people encountered the space.  We served fresh fish and tuaki/cockles steamed in kelp bags, whole blue cod surrounded by some roasted kelp tendrils, accompanied by a light soup of kombu pickled bull kelp and kina.  As with all the dishes, people were encouraged to eat with their hands and interact with the food at a very personal level

The next dish told the story of Iwi Maori encounters, this included smoked paua and roe and of course Titi.  We cooked the titi in a broth with seaweed and served the broth with the meal.

Next referenced 1773 when cook came through and planted a garden in Tamatea/Dusky.  We served potatoes and carrots on top of edible dirt, made from seeds and dried olives.  We smoked the dirt with peat flown in from Dusky so people had the experience of actually tasting the land. We made a cold tea with molasas and a rimu infusion.. talking to Cooks first brewery in New Zealand.

The last dish we placed on top of the remnants of the earth. This contained wild venison which was, apart from the peat for smoking, the only other ingredient brought in from the Sounds by our friends at Pure Salt Charters.  A relation of ours, Rex Morgan from Boulcott Street Bistro made a venison tartar with one of the legs and we slow cooked and shredded the other and served it on ships crackers.  

We explained that we had eaten fish and paua and birds and just like Dusky, there are no more left.  Tamatea/ Dusky has been hard hit with introduced predators, deer, stoats and rats.  They, along with human encounters, have pushed this unique ecosystem to the brink of collapse.  

The point we were making is that this once food bowl was now almost empty.  The legacy that we have been left with, due to over fishing and predation, is that all we have left to eat are pests.  When explaining this dish I informed the crowd that "this dish may or may not contain rats!".  There were some very interesting looks on their faces!

Our point was, there is not much left in this pataka (food cupboard), and if we don't take care of our environment, all we will be handing to our children, the legacy of our encounter will be pests.  The Kaihaukai Art Collective works on the concept of koha.  We asked the participants of the installation to make a gift back to Tamatea/Dusky through the conservation project that Pure Salt are part of."  

TE PAPA museum - March 2020

Greer Clayton

Kiwi born Greer Clayton was born in Dunedin and graduated from Elam Art School in Auckland with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1996 and in 2015 a Diploma of Interior Design. In her art the subject matter is always landscape, abstracted using diffused line and glazing with mixed media, flat and pearlised acrylic. Her signature style is often moody, smudged and ethereal. Exploring colour, form and the varied texture of the landscape while evoking visual similarities of a typical New Zealand environment.

“Our landscape has its own original colour with texture formed from native plants, rivers, lakes and coastlines rising to our ever changing skyline. I aim to capture some of that visual energy in my paintings.”

Currently based in Auckland Greer works from her studio in Devonport and exhibits at Parnell Gallery.

"Morning Mauve Light" Dusky Journey

"In 2019 I was lucky enough to be onboard a voyage to the Sub-Antarctics and head back through Fiordland where I had my first taste of magnificent Dusky Sound. Through DOC I learnt of the incredible work Pure Salt and the Flightless team were undertaking in eradicating pests on the islands and how artists had been involved. To have the opportunity to visit and contribute is a huge privilege especially as the area has had such an impact and influence on my work already as I too have fallen under its magical spell and hope my paintings can give the viewer the ‘feel’ and ‘mood’ of this stunning part of NZ and encourage them to be part of it in some way."

NZ$5,600

Media |  Acrylic on canvas    

Size |  100cm x 100cm    

"Above and Beyond" Dusky Journey

NZ$5,900

Media |  Acrylic on canvas    

Original work | Available to view at the Parnell Gallery in Auckland

Size |  84cm x 122cm    

Original work | Available to view at the Parnell Gallery in Auckland

SOLD helping us sponsor 50 DOC200 traps to go onto Long Island to further protect Resolution, Indian and Anchor Island from stoat invasion whilst giving the kiwi on Long Island a better chance of survival. THANK YOU!

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