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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
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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
Edith Amituanai Pink Bag
Hendo and Pink Bag are both from the series The End of My Driveway. These works reflect Edith Amituanai’s innovative approach to making photographs, in which she consistently acknowledges her position as the photographer. Taken from the end of the artist’s driveway, the photographs capture teens as they walk to and from school. In Hendo the three teenagers each respond differently: one keeps eyes ahead, another peeks out from behind their friend and the last student pops back a hand signal, acknowledging the photographer. Edith often spends many years building relationships with a community before taking photographs and her work offers an inside view and shares intimate moments of daily life – here the commute to and from school and the friendships that result from walking together.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Collection
Edith Amituanai Hendo
Hendo and Pink Bag are both from the series The End of My Driveway. These works reflect Edith Amituanai’s innovative approach to making photographs, in which she consistently acknowledges her position as the photographer. Taken from the end of the artist’s driveway, the photographs capture teens as they walk to and from school. In Hendo the three teenagers each respond differently: one keeps eyes ahead, another peeks out from behind their friend and the last student pops back a hand signal, acknowledging the photographer. Edith often spends many years building relationships with a community before taking photographs and her work offers an inside view and shares intimate moments of daily life – here the commute to and from school and the friendships that result from walking together.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Collection
Edith Amituanai Tup$ hits the human flag
Made in Edith Amituanai’s home suburb of Rānui in West Auckland, this photograph is from the ongoing series ETA (Edith’s Talent Agency). Began in 2015, the series blends street and documentary photography. Edith is active in her community and collaborates with the people in her photographs, forming trusting and long-lasting relationships before taking her camera out. Here Tup$ pulls a classic parkour move, known as the human flag, against the backdrop of the local dairy. His horizontal body is an impressive physical feat – playful and streetwise, like the stylised S on the end of his name. The artist’s photograph records Tup$’s agility and asserts his agency as he moves and pulls stunts through the neighbourhood.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
Collection
Kura Te Waru Rewiri A Construction of a Past
Infused with a sense of circuit board energy, Kura Te Waru Rewiri’s A Construction of a Past feels purposeful and definite while also filled with cryptic, hidden clues; like a modernist-inspired personal mapping of whakapapa, connections, memory and experience.
After graduating from Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1973 and completing teacher training, Kura spent the next decade raising a family and teaching. On returning to painting in 1985, she took encouragement in a whakataukī from a friend: ‘He kokonga whare e kitea, he kokonga ngakau e kore e kitea’ (‘the corner of a house can be seen but not a corner of the heart’).
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
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