Eye of the beholder

Abstract

"Pardington is the first New Zealand artist to be knighted in France. The French government has made her a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters) for her photographic work and research in the collections held in museums in Paris, Rouen and Nice. She is also a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit [...] Pardington's recent work, 'Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle', is on show at Auckland's Starkwhite gallery. It features huge images of iridescent butterfly wing-scales in breathtakingly vivid colour [...] juxtaposed with close-ups of hand-written collector's notes [...] by Vladimir Nabokov".