McCahon: A View from Urewera

6 November 1999 - 13 January 2000 in the Entire Gallery

With its highly publicised political ‘theft’ in June 1997 from the Aniwanawa Visitor’s Centre, Colin McCahon’s Urewera Mural has become one of New Zealand’s most famous as well as significant artworks. This exhibition enables visitors to see this massive painting in the flesh, and to understand something of Te Urewera, the history of the place, its people, and its significance to both Māori and Pākehā. The exhibition also includes nine other paintings by McCahon in which the ‘tau cross’ is a central motif.