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Tony Fomison, one of NZ’s leading painters, is profiled in this 1981 episode of a series about notable artists, made for TVNZ. Interviewed by Hamish Keith, Fomison is an engaging but diffident subject — describing his often dark, brooding works as “illustrations of dreams”, but also ascribing human emotions to them. His powerful attraction to Pacific cultures is explored; it culminated in this Pākehā son of a working-class Christchurch family getting a pe’a (the traditional Samoan body tattoo). Tony Fomison died in 1990.
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Television, 1983 (Full Length Episode)
Another painter profiled in this series
Television, 1996 (Full Length)
Doco about the Samoan immigrant experience in NZ
Television, 1984 (Full Length)
The pe’a features in this tattooing documentary
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