Shona Rapira Davies Ko Te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa 2022. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre. Image: Hayley Bethell
18 April – 19 April 2025
A major installation remembering the peaceful resistance shown by the children of Waitara and Parihaka.
In the form of a tohorā (whale) tail, Ko te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa is a memorial to those tamariki who were killed or displaced by colonial forces during the New Zealand wars in Taranaki in the late 1800s. Occupying the soaring spaces of the Gallery foyer, this work by senior artist Shona Rapira Davies (Ngāti Wai ki Aotea) recognises the connection between the Taranaki Wars and Ōtautahi Christchurch, where, in 1880, 160 peaceful protestors from Parihaka were imprisoned on Rīpapa Island in Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour.
Commissioned by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre.
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Location:
Foyer -
Curator:
Chloe Cull -
Exhibition number:
1183