Exhibitions
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On display
Drop-in Artist's Workshop for Families
Maungarongo Te Kawa,Rangi Takere Hau, 2022. Mixed media quilt.
Image of Maungarongo Te Kawa, supplied by the artist.
Family and Kids
Past event
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Koha
A family-focused Matariki inspired art-making session with artist Maungarongo Te Kawa, entitled Sparkly Happy People Workshop.
Come along and join our creative sewing circle where we will make some sparkly fabric art to light up the darkness for Matariki.
Choose a Matariki Star and get cracking. Open to all ages and you don't need any experience or sewing skills.
Maungarongo is a fabric artist, he will help you to cut, glue and paste a happy creation that will brighten your winter.
There's also a free badge making workshop, for double the fun. We will explore the idea of ' I belong " and there will be fun for everyone .
Maungarongo is currently the artist in residence at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, where he has an exhibition at Te Whare Tapere Gallery.
The artist’s work Rangi Takere Hau is also currently on display in the Perilous exhibition.
Related
Exhibition
Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection
6 August 2022 – 21 July 2024
Making room for fresh voices, untold narratives and disruptive ideas.
Collection
Maungarongo Te Kawa Rangi Takere Hau
Maungarongo Te Kawa translates the Māori title for this work as ‘The Hull that Breaks the Dawn Horizon’. He made it in memory of all the men, including many of his friends, who died as the result of HIV/AIDS in the years before treatment was known or widely available. Maungarongo made a glittering, impossible-to-ignore vessel to carry away mamae (pain) or any sense of shame. “We, the survivors, captain our own waka and navigate our own voyage,” he has said.
“We sail towards our dreams with love, spirit, liberation, and style. As we journey through the ocean towards the horizon, a fine mist is created at the prow. It sprays up and covers the whole waka, and when the sun shines through, it creates a rainbow. A tohu of peace, connection, forgiveness, total abundance and eternal aroha. For all the ones that didn’t make it.”
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)