Te Huringa / Turning Points Pākehā Colonisation and Māori Empowerment

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An exhibition of paintings from the collections of The Fletcher Trust and Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.

Te Huringa / Turning Points charts a journey from early European contact and colonisation through to work by present-day New Zealand artists reflecting contemporary concerns.

 

An exhibition of paintings from the collections of The Fletcher Trust and Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui

Featuring paintings by many of New Zealand's best known modern and historical artists, Te Huringa / Turning Points charts a journey from early European contact, settlement and colonisation through to art by twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists reflecting contemporary concerns.

Artists include Augustus Earle, Nicholas Chevalier, Sir Francis Dillon Bell, Charles Goldie, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Darcy Nicholas, Sandy Adsett, Robyn Kahukiwa, Emare Karaka, Shane Cotton and Peter Robinson.

Acknowledging diverse viewpoints, the exhibition is curated by Dr Jo Diamond (Ngapuhi), lecturer in art history at the University of Canterbury and Peter Shaw, curator of the Fletcher Trust Collection.