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Emily Parr, Hīkoi Whenua, 4 August 2019 (2019). Courtesy of the artist
Panel Discussion
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Join a panel of artists including photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) and Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā) as they discuss their work in relation to Māori land rights and activism.
These artists have work featured in the exhibition He Kapuka Oneone: A Handful of Soil. This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, raraka, photography, moving image, printmaking and weaving by historical and contemporary artists are brought together to reveal how land has been a material and subject for art in Aotearoa for hundreds of years.