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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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The Gnomes of Virook
The smell of molten metal filled the caverns, the smelter working overtime. Sweat dripped from many rows as the forge was manned without end, the echoes of hammer on anvil continuing well on into the night. The miners laboured tirelessly to bring new materials. No one could sleep. There was only one week left. They were all preparing for the day of Black Rain.
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Laurence William Wilson Mount Amstead, Rees River
Mount Ansted is an unofficial, local name for a mountain between the Rees Saddle and the upper stretch of the Matukituki River. The name appears on map NZMS260 E39 but Land Information New Zealand records the feature as having no official name.
The Rees River flows into the Northern end of Lake Wakatipu.
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Laurence William Wilson Pembroke, Lake Wanaka
The area around Lake Wānaka was inhabited across the centuries by the Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu iwi. Oral histories describe its creation by the ancestor Rākaihautū with his mighty kō. The name Wānaka implies a place of sacred learning.During colonial settlement under the governance of the Otago Provincial Council, Wānaka was renamed Pembroke, hortly after it was first surveyed by colonial settlers in 1863. The name was given in honour of the recently deceased English MP Sidney Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke and the British Secretary at War from 1845 (coinciding with the start of the Aotearoa New Zealand land wars). As a supporter of colonisation, he was also a founding member of the Canterbury Association three years later. The settlement reverted to its original name in 1940.
Waitaha ~ tribal group that occupied much of Te Waipounamu South Island before they were displaced by Kāti Māmoe
Kāti Māmoe ~ tribal group that was largely replaced by Kāi Tahu through intermarriage and conquest
Kāi Tahu ~ tribal group of much of Te Waipounamu South Island
iwi ~ tribes
kō ~ digging stick
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
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Neil Pardington Large Mammal Storage Bay #1, Canterbury Museum
For a large, intensive photographic project that he called The Vault, Neil Pardington used his camera to see what discoveries could be made in the hidden storage spaces of museums and art galleries throughout New Zealand.
This assemblage of taxidermied beasts was found in a storeroom at Canterbury Museum, kept in safekeeping while unneeded for display. All facing the same direction, it’s almost as if they’re waiting for their moment to escape.
(Beasts, 2015)
