John Maillard
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Programme Leader, Digital Media Tutor
Ext. 8386
MaillardJ@cpit.ac.nz
Programme Leader, Digital Media Tutor and Photographer and Web Designer
"Teaching is about inspiration and sharing creative ideas to make a physical object which shares equally, intent, form and function. While design forms are primarily about function or communication, art often has more to do with aesthetic satisfaction. It may arouse passions, open eyes, reveal truths, stimulate concern, inspire, elevate, purgeÂ…intoxicate."
After graduating in 1999 with a Masters in photography and digital imaging from De Montfort University, Leicester, John taught web design and associated technologies to Bachelor of Art students at Northampton College and University College, Northampton while maintaining a professional practice as a web and digital media designer, and a photographer.
Prior to arrival in New Zealand in 2002, he worked in the United Kingdom, Mediterranean, Europe, West Africa and the United States as a photographer and a teacher.
John continues to teach a variety of subjects in the digital area across our Bachelor of Design specialisations. His research spans investigations into analogue and digital printmaking, and the "dismantling of modern mythologies and political imaging via investigations of the photograph as a document." Of particular interest are the writings and theories of Roland Barthes, author of Mythologies, a collection of essays which explore mass culture: films, advertising, newspapers and magazines, photographs, cars, children's toys, and popular pastimes. Set against the panorama of events and trends in France during the 1950s, Barthes showed that it was possible to read the 'trivia' of everyday life in a way that has an unsettling, contemporary relevance to us today.
Selected exhibitions of John Maillard's photographic work include: Images of Malta at the Commonwealth Centre, London 1985; Isle of Man Landscapes at The Montpellier Gallery in Cheltenham and Still Lifes, Oxo Tower, Southbank, London in 1999.
John is currently curating works of art for an online exhibition exploring cultural and environmental issues in the work of selected artists from both the northern and southern hemisphere. The exhibition will be sponsored by the United Kingdom Arts Council and Open Spaces, Open Places, a collection of site-specific works installed in various venues throughout Northampton, England.
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