Exhibition

Kōwhaiwhai

Five significant works of art that look to traditional Māori architecture to inform modernist and contemporary Māori art practice.

Exhibition

Max Hailstone: Te Ara Takahaka Tapuae / Points of Reference

An exhibition of Max Hailstone's most controversial and important series, using the signatures of the rangatira (Māori chiefs) who signed New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi in 1840

Exhibition

Te Rua o te Moko

Each of the eighteen rūnanga within Ngāi Tahu are represented here by a work of art depicting a significant land site.

Exhibition

Kā Honoka

Cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific shows whaling as central to the local story.

Notes
Yesterday...

Yesterday...

...all these trucks seemed so far away

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Roofs

Roofs

Having lived in the CBD on and off since I was 18 years old (I spent 2 years in Auckland but otherwise within the four Aves), it breaks my heart to see what has been taken away culturally as architecture.

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Fade

Fade

Gallery technician Scott Jackson makes a few running repairs

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Starry Night

Starry Night

On visiting the current Site Santa Fe exhibition More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness I had a moment that reminded me of home during exhibition installs.

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Sign of the times

Sign of the times

Found this little green sign propped up next to my desk this morning...