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On display
On Another Man's Land by John Pule
John Pule On Another Man's Land 1997 Oil on unstretched canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1997
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Join volunteer guide Julie Foley as she discusses John Pule's On Another Man's Land on display in He Kapuka Oneone - A Handful of Soil on the first floor.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12 noon (except during public and school holidays).
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
From 24 August 2024
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
Collection
John Pule On Another Man’s Land
John Pule examines the complex experience of leaving one’s homeland and arriving in another – a reflection on his own migration from Niue to Aotearoa New Zealand. Using the grid-like composition of hiapo, he has developed a symbolic language of spears, migratory birds, sea creatures and geometric patterning that speaks to personal and shared histories of cross-cultural exchange. Here, he also reproduces an eighteenth-century drawing by Raiatean navigator Tupaia, depicting Captain Cook’s botanist Joseph Banks trading with a rakatira from Uawa. It’s an image that complicates our understanding of the dynamics involved in this encounter, and asks us to consider our own place in Aotearoa.
hiapo ~ barkcloth from Niue
rakatira ~ person of high rank, chief, leader
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
