I have to admit to being genuinely surprised by the wave of social media criticism targeted at Stephanie’s art for nothing more than being Key’s daughter.
Comrades, Stephanie is a young woman whose dignity and worth shouldn’t be so gleefully stamped upon with such unwarranted moral high ground. Our dislike and contempt for the policies of her Father have nothing to do with her and it is graceless of us to attach that. Let us refocus our energies and passions at worthier foes where we have legitimate grievance and righteous anger.
I think Stephanie’s cross culture consumption hipster design art is clever & smart. The day we start considering 20 year old girls being creative as ‘the enemy’ is the day the Taliban win.
We are better than that and Stephanie Key deserves better than that.
Hear hear Bomber.
A horrible illustration of the wealth divide. Within many cultures including tikanga Maori food is a taonga not to be wasted. “Feed the Kids” is a positive reaction to Children in NZ arriving at school hungry. Pity Prime Minister doesn’t do more to address the wealth divide and poverty that is impacting on so many children in New Zealand.
Many people are resistant to calling maccas food – did you just call it taonga? Really? Are you really objecting to the ‘waste’ of a couple of burgers in the creation of an image that appears to be challenging excessive consumption and/or corporate greed? Is it a waste to make art? How do you know the food wasn’t eaten afterwards anyway?
From my brief Playcentre days, I recollect that food in art is considered wasteful – and culturally inappropriate, not just for Maori.
Makes sense really – along with the combining of food and personal hygiene… I guess that is where Alex Dobie is coming from. That perspective will make this artwork seem very indulgent.
What about pasta art in kindy? man I feel guilty now 🙁
I was a bit more concerned that the concept was cliche, having been done many, many, many times before in one form or another. But I like the image with this blog. It’s aesthetically pleasing at the very least.
But yeah, kick the ball, not the daughter of the opposition’s captain.
Cliche and megalomania. Wonder where she get’s that from.
What’s her snapper quota?
My issue is with the ‘art’. What is it exactly that she’s trying to say – perhaps she meant to use a fishburger – fuck, how ever you look at it, this is a waste of someone’s money.
Are you serious? “Stephanie Key deserves better than that”. Stephanie Key has benefited and continues to benefit from her father’s corruption – a man who has made millions by trading inequality and eroding this nation’s basic human rights. The world is littered with Stephanie Key’s – privileged offspring riding on the back of parent beasts.
Sorry, but I would tend to dissagree on the cleverness of her art, Bommer. It’s way too cliched these days. Octopus over the privates? Not very original.
Its the ruthless symmetry with nothing to break the rhythm that is the most disturbing facet of the ‘art’.
I’ll leave it up to others to tell us exactly how accountant-like that is. Hackneyed images and mirrors rarely construct worthwhile visuals.
junk food is cheaper than decent clothes must be what happens when u sht all over the clothing industry. T.a.c.k.y.
This is just another shameful distraction that John keys is using and this time using his own Daughter’s art, what will get past or what will we lose while he distracts us all again ….
Yeah, her art is pretty damn average.. much the same as any other 1st-year photography student (photochop amateur hour) and as a number have said it’s been done about a million times before.
Leads one to the conclusion the only reason her photos are being used to promote Paris Design Week is because the organizers are well aware of who her father is and that the publication of them would bring a bunch of free publicity to the event.
Poor girl, she’ll probably have to live with this fake-interest in her artwork for at least as long as Key remains the PM of NZ.
I see the Daily Mail (linked above) ‘censored’ the topless pics, so now I’ll never know whether or not Stephanie has nipples.
But good luck to her anyway. The daughter of my enemy is not my enemy.
If the woman posing with the octopus and the Scottish cuisine wasn’t John Key’s daughter the whole enterprise would not have received the attention it did. Surely the artist must have considered this and anticipated the ensuing controversy that would provide publicity for her work.
If she is going to exploit her father’s notoriety in an attempt to promote her own efforts then she will have to accept all reactions that follow whether they be negative or positive.
This form of art seems to exist to provoke argument and criticism, maybe next time she can dress up as the Virgin Mary and pose in Te Papa encased in a giant condom.
If it wasn’t provocative and controversial then wouldn’t it have failed?
Being art-inclined and engaging in self-portraiture a lot myself, I kinda have an appreciation for her art and don’t blame her or anything but I must say I am rather peeved that Key gets to ensure for his daughter a move to live in Paris, let alone study there (admittedly, I haven’t read up on her story/whether she was independent in her endeavours to build towards her move) and carry out the dreams I would love to pursue given the chance. Instead I had to withdraw from my studies because this country is too damn expensive and it’s damn-near impossible to get a job from the bottom in these times. It’s great to know that he has financial stability for his family, but what about the rest of us slugging it out on these bedraggled shores?
Yours sincerely, a fellow 20 year old Kiwi girl who would just like to be able to actually get ahead in the world
But would we even be seeing this “art” if she wasn’t Key’s daughter? Artists like this are a dime a dozen throughout the world.
So we are calling a pastey kid with a dead octopus between her legs and a McDonald’s fetish art now?
It is not hard to see why the world is going to hell in a hand basket if this is all it takes to divert the public’s attention from real issues.
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