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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
New exhibition now open.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Collection
Baye Pewhairangi Riddell Manaia
Baye Riddell is a founding member of Ngā Kaihanga Uku – the Māori Clay Artists collective. He doesn’t use glazes in his ceramics, instead enhancing the clay with carved, painted or incised surfaces as a way of honouring the original material. The artist has whakapapa to Tokomaru Bay, where he also lives, and often uses clay collected from whānau land in Te Puia Springs. He says, “When I do that, I really feel connected to my tīpuna, because they’re providing me with a gift to work with.”
hui ~ gathering, meeting
whenua ~ land, earth
uku ~ clay
whakapapa ~ genealogy, lineage, ancestry
whānau ~ family, extended family, family group
tīpuna ~ ancestors
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
Collection
Oliver Perkins A music of a chance
Oliver Perkins has been investigating stretched and interlocking canvases for a number of years. In A music of a chance the scalpel becomes as important as the paintbrush in modifying the surfaces of two interlocked canvases. Parts are slit open and stretched taut as the canvases thread through each other and become one, intricately entwined. Other parts are cut away and disposed of entirely, leaving open views to the canvas beneath and the gallery wall beyond. Both foreground and background come into play and are equally important.
(Die Cuts and Derivations, 11 March – 2 July 2023)
Collection
Thomas Gulliver The Old Stove Factory
The scene is the premises of J Broady, 34 Durham Street, Auckland.
See a 1925 photograph of these buildings
Collection
Arnold Goodwin Grey Street Gully
Now known as Greys Avenue, these buildings were demolished and became Myers Park in the 1940s.
