Joanne Gair

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Joanne Gair
Bornc. 1958 (age 65–66)
Auckland, New Zealand
Known forBody painting, Make-up artist
Notable workDemi's Birthday Suit (August 1992)
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues (1999–)
Disappearing Model (2000)
MovementTrompe-l'œil
Websitewww.joannegair.com

Joanne Gair (born c. 1958),[1] nicknamed Kiwi Jo[2] (alternatively Kiwi Joe),[3][4] is a New Zealand-born and -raised make-up artist and body painter whose body paintings have been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 1999 to 2017. She is considered the world's leading trompe-l'œil body painter and make-up artist,[5] and she became famous with a Vanity Fair Demi's Birthday Suit cover of Demi Moore in a body painting in 1992.[6][7] Her Disappearing Model was featured on the highest-rated episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not.[8] She is the daughter of George Gair.[9]

In addition to achieving

Madonna.[8] In 2001, she had her first retrospective and in 2005, she published her first book on body painting. At the peak of her pop culture fame after the Vanity Fair cover, she was seriously considered for an Absolut Vodka Absolute Gair ad campaign.[11] She has done magazine editorial work,[12] and in 2005, she became a photographer of her own body paintings in both books and magazines.[13]

Career

Gair, who is New Zealand-born and was raised in

Gaultier beauty salons to offer her already well-respected make-up artist services. They both accepted her and she further solidified her reputation to the point where instead of being asked if she was George Gair's daughter it was more common for her father to be asked if he was Joanne Gair's father.[4] Her early work in the music industry included album cover and music video work for David Lee Roth, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, and Mick Jagger.[14] One of her early successes was being employed to do Roth's 1986 Eat 'Em and Smile album cover. These experiences led to work with Madonna, which started with music videos for "Express Yourself" and "Vogue".[14] She has also done work on music videos for Aerosmith and Nine Inch Nails.[2] Her work on the 1997 Nine Inch Nails video for "The Perfect Drug" won her the makeup portion of the best hair/makeup in a music video at the Music Video Production Awards.[15] She had also won awards for Madonna's Frozen.[3] Among the other notable musicians she has worked with is Gwen Stefani, who won Most Stylish Video at the 1999 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards working with Gair on the video for No Doubt's song "New".[16] Gair also worked on ad campaigns and for photo features in efforts to exhibit the artistic visions of others.[17]

Eventually she expanded beyond make-up artistry to body painting to express her own artistic vision. In August 1991, Demi Moore caused international artistic commotion by appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair seven months pregnant with her daughter

Wal-Mart refused to stock that edition.[22]

Gair is considered a

Auckland Museum as part of the Vodafone Body Art exhibition in 2001 and early 2002.[2][8]

Gair has earned many

The Work of Director Chris Cunningham.[1]

Sports Illustrated

In her first year in the Swimsuit Issue (1999), she painted

bathing suits on Quiana Grant, Jessica Gomes, Marisa Miller, and Tori Praver, the average sitting time for the subjects/objects was thirteen hours.[53]

The photographers in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004 were respectively Antoine Verglas, James Porto, Michael Zeppetello and Steven White for the Swimsuit Issue works. From 2005 to 2007 Gair took the photographs of her body paintings herself.[54] Verglas again photographed the bodypainting for the 2008 Swimsuit Issue.[55] No body painting pictures have been chosen as the exclusive main image on the cover of the Swimsuit Issue. However, in the 2005 Swimsuit Issue in which Carolyn Murphy is the cover model, Jessica White was shown as an inset on the cover in a Miami Dolphins jersey body painting by Gair.[56] Thus, as a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue photographer Gair debuted on the cover in a sense. In 2006 a small cropped portion of her photograph of a bodypainting of Klum appeared in an inset on the cover, but no bodypainting was apparent.[57] The 2016 Swimsuit Issue designated three cover models for three separate covers, one of which was a photograph of Ronda Rousey in a Gair-painted one-piece bathing suit, thus making it the first Swimsuit bodypaint cover (albeit not the exclusive cover for that year).[58]

One more round of bodypaint photos was done in 2017 (featuring models Anne de Paula, Hunter McGrady, Lisa Marie Jaftha, and McKenna Berkley); the magazine did not include a bodypaint feature in 2018 or 2019.

Books

Gair has produced two English books: Paint A 'Licious: The Pain-Free Way to Achieving Your Naked Ambitions (

tutu doing the splits on a golden stage, with the help of an assistant painted to blend into the curtains and 'No Sweat' which shows an overweight woman happily leading an aerobics class with her body painted so that she appears 30 pounds slimmer. In the book, washboard abs are achieved by sitting still for a few hours, as is an hourglass figure.[59] The book was produced over the course of ten months in New Zealand.[60]

Her second book, Body Painting, includes seventy-five works and some of the photographers involved were

First Lady of France, Carla Bruni, was a subject of the book.[63] Several Heidi Klum photos are included from various photo shoots, including the 1991 Shape magazine tenth anniversary shoot. Several photos of Demi Moore also appear including alternate photos from the Kauai, Hawaii portion of the 1992 Demi's Birthday Suit week of shooting as well as both photos of her 1994 pregnancy with Tallulah Belle Willis and subsequent 1995 Barbie body paintings.[62] A photo from the Disappearing Model work from Ripley's Believe It or Not? is also included.[62] The book also includes magazine work such as a May 1990 Fame shoot with Goldie Hawn and Matthew Rolston and a November 1998 Interview shoot with Pamela Anderson and David LaChapelle as well as some Pirelli calendar work with Herb Ritts, Carolyn Murphy and Alek Wek.[62]

Sports Illustrated produced Sports Illustrated: In the Paint (

Sarah O'Hare was shot by Antoine Verglas who photographed Gair's 1999 bodypaintings for the Swimsuit Issue.[64]
The book includes images produced in Gair's earlier efforts for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 1999 to 2007. It also includes several behind-the-scenes images not include in the magazine.

Television

Many painted flowers with a flower-pained figure barely discernible.
Disappearing Model, 2000 has been mentioned as Gair's most famous work.

Although to many she is best known for Demi's Birthday Suit, art aficionados consider her most famous work

Ford Modeling Agency fashion model named Jana, which is a tabooed employment of a traditionally male ritual face mask.[4] An example from Gair's website of her ability to trick the eye into seeing a three-dimensional subject blend with a two-dimensional background is seen in a photograph of a pregnant Elle Macpherson.[66]
Other examples of this technique include the cover of her first book (pictured below) and images from within this book.

She participated in

hair extensions. The episode resulted in work that was so successful that none of the contestants were eliminated.[67]

Style

Gair has now developed a style as a body painter. Her typical job takes her and her team eight hours, but some jobs take twice that. She does not charge by the hour. Gair is always well prepared for her jobs, but does not generally sketch her work on paper. In fact, she claims to have only had to do so twice in over twenty years of body painting. When she needs to test something out she usually uses her opposite (left) arm or hand.[23]

In recent years, Gair has added photography to her professional skills.

Canon 5D camera.[23]

Family

Gair is from

Parliament of New Zealand (1966–1990) and later Mayor of North Shore City (1995–1998).[68] Her mother is Fay Gair, and her elder sister Linda Gair served both as a model and as a painting assistant in several of the paintings in her first book. Linda also has a daughter named Lauren. One of the paintings for which Linda assisted was the cover of Paint A 'Licious.[60] Gair also has an older brother named Warwick.[35]

Notes

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