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’).

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