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    Robert Atkinson, Te Uira, 1889. Image courtesty of The Fletcher Trust Collection.

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    C. F. Goldie, Wiripine Ninia - A Ngatiawa Chieftainess, 1911. Image courtesty of Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui.

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    John Bevan ford Combined Energies: Te Atianga, 1995. Image courtesty of The Fletcher Collection.

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    Te Huringa, installation view City Gallery Wellington, 2007. Photo: Michael Roth.

Te Huringa / Turning Points: Pakeha Colonisation & Maori Empowerment

11 August - 4 November 2007 in the Entire Gallery

City Gallery Wellington is honoured to bring to Wellington this fascinating selection of paintings, prints and drawings drawn from two significant New Zealand collections—The Fletcher Trust and Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui.

‘Te Huringa / Turning Points’ presents a diverse range of works devoted to the representation of Māori and Māori subject matter by Pākehā and the way in which Māori art practitioners have reflected their own ideas and concerns. The works chart a visual history of this country’s journey from early European contact (the earliest works in the exhibition are hand coloured engravings of Māori architecture, weaponry and utensils from 1826), through settlement, colonisation, protest to mana renewed.

The exhibition, curated by Peter Shaw and Dr. Jo Diamond, comprises over fifty works, arranged within a thematic framework of six clusters, not in an effort to fit each work into a rigid category but to suggest pathways for consideration and provide sometimes unexpected links between works. The exhibition includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson, and Gordon Walters.

The exhibition is initiated and toured by The Fletcher Trust in partnership with Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua, Whanganui and with support from Te Puni Kōkiri and Māori TV.     

Public Programmes

Artist and Curators floortalk
Discussion led by Sarah Farrar, Curator of the Cotemporary Projects

NZART101: Modern and contemporary Maori Art
Lecture by Mane-wheoki, Director of Art and Collection services at Te Papa Tongarewa

Telling our Stories
A panel discusson on Maori in film and television.

Principal Sponsor