Art Blog Post 3

Art Blog Post 3

In this blog post, we had to watch a video about Sofia Minson. This video we had to watch was all about her artwork. Here is the video. Link 

• Tracey Tawhiao 

• Maori Artworks

• Colorful

Tracey Tawhiao is a prolific artist with a wide range of creative expressions including poetry, painting,

performance, and filmmaking. She is well known for using newspapers as the basis of her practice,

obscuring passages of the text with block colors and Maori symbols and motifs, Whilst highlighting short

headlines or individual words. Tawhiao's artistic practice arose from the time spent with her grandparents

at their Matakana Island home. The walls were covered in newspapers and Tawhiao's idea to brighten the

place up was to apply symbols and images directly to the walls. This close connection to the text

highlighted her negativity implicit in the headlines. Tracey does Maori artwork because she is Maori

and loves her Maori culture. For the paintings, she makes them colorful and uses the Maori design to

represent her culture. 

•  Sofia Minson 

• Less colorful

• Does People 

• Does Animals

Sofia Minson was born in 1984 in Auckland. She is a contemporary New Zealand oil painter of Maori

(Ngati Porou) Swedish, English, and Irish descent. She has had an award for 1st prize Molly Morpeth

Canaday Art. She is well known for oil painting, Street art, and much more. Sofia uses less color in her

artwork because I think she wants it to be plain and stand out more. She only does paintings of People

and animals. Sofia Minson paints with oils, acrylics, and flashe to create awe-inspiring landscapes,

mystical animals, and life-like portraits to celebrate the beauty and wonder of Aotearoa. Sofia follows a

very organic creative process, painting from her own personal inspirations. Because of this, she does not

follow a commission-based artistic process. she uses what comes to her head at first, and then she uses

it to describe what she does as a living. Sofia Minson's artworks have subversion in them but she does not follow a process to help her with her artworks. She paints from her own personal inspirations.