Exhibition
Kā Honoka
18 December 2015 – 28 August 2016
Charles Meryon NOUVELLE- ZÉLANDE Greniers indigènes et habitations à AKAROA (Presqu’île de Banks) 1845 1860. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 1972
Tony Fomison Captain Ahab Peg Legged Hunter of the White Whale 1981. Oil on canvas board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented to the Gallery by Mr Peter Wells 1984
Cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific shows whaling as central to the local story.
This selection of works explores early cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific and nineteenth-century European presence and ambition, with whaling as a central part of the local story. Spanning a period of some 180 years, this exhibition links such diverse locations as Paris, Sydney, Niue, Tonga, the Bay of Islands and Banks Peninsula, and brings the past powerfully into the present.
- Location: Sir Robertson and Lady Stewart Gallery
- Curator: Ken Hall
- Exhibition number: 987
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