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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
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Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Notes
Just like Webster's Dictionary
..we're Morocco bound. It being the birthday of King Mohammed VI (in Arabic: محمد السادس), here are some pictures of this beautiful country by New Zealand artist John Weeks.
Collection
Brenda Nightingale Untitled
Brenda Nightingale’s view from Awaroa Godley Head looks across the entrance to Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour to Te Piaka Adderley Head and the coastal headlands of Koukourarata Port Levy, Pigeon Bay and Menzies Bay beyond. Inspired by the landscapes of Whakaraupō where she lives and works, Nightingale has been influenced by earlier women watercolour artists working in Waitaha Canterbury, such as Olivia Spencer Bower and Margaret Stoddart. Her view from Awaroa is disrupted by the trig beacon that marks the geodetic survey pin hammered into the ground at this point. Trig beacons such as this are scattered throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and serve as stark reminders that surveying the land was a key tool of the colonisation process, serving to bring about legal titles to the land and in effect commercialising it for settler gains.
(He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil, 2025)
