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Love and marriage may be universal, but their mutual inclusivity is not. What can a wedding photograph tell us about the love shared between two people? How can portraiture better inform us about the experience of being in love?
Image: Rita Angus in Taradale, 1987, Collection Art House Trust
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Lines of whakapapa, Ani Ligaliga (People’s Choice Award winner)
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection, one of the most prestigious private art collections in Aotearoa
Image: Imogen Taylor (born 1985, Pākehā) Limb Report 2022
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection, one of the most prestigious private art collections in Aotearoa
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Aroha, 1971. Courtesy of the artist and Fletcher Trust Collection, Tāmaki Makaurau.
This exhibition affirms the pioneering legacy and leadership of senior Māori artist, broadcaster, playwright, orator, teacher, musician, and repository of tribal knowledge - Selwyn Muru.
Ian Scott, Red Mrkusich, 2008, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 723 x 622mm, courtesy of the artist’s estate and Micheal Lett Gallery
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Lines of whakapapa, Ani Ligaliga (People’s Choice Award winner)
When photographer David Cook moved into Hamilton East, he was drawn to the colorful, creative and chaotic lives of his neighbours. With camera in hand, he explored back-yard mechanics to Sunday roasts, inventing an intimate documentary of a State Housing suburb in the 90s, moments before gentrification set in.
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection, one of the most prestigious private art collections in Aotearoa
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Aroha, 1971. Courtesy of the artist and Fletcher Trust Collection, Tāmaki Makaurau.
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
This is the final touring destination of the 2022 Award.
Image: Lady Day, Jessica Gurnsey (Winner of the 2022 Adam Portraiture Award)
This exhibition, the Gallery’s first single-collector exhibition, pays tribute to the significant collection amassed by curator, art historian and long-time director of New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata, Avenal McKinnon.
Image: Seraphine Pick, Katherine Mansfield, 2014
Senior Māori artist Selwyn Muru (Te Aupouri, Ngāti Kurī, Ngāti Muri Kahara, Ngāti Rehia, Te Whakatōhea) was once described as one of the most original Māori thinkers of his time.
This exhibition affirms his pioneering legacy and leadership across multiple fields of activity – as a visual artist, broadcaster, playwright and social commentator, an actor, professional musician, orator, teacher, and tribal repository of knowledge.
Presenting many artworks never shown publicly before, this exhibition includes paintings and drawings alongside documentary photography, audio and video.
Whanganui Regional Museum
Watt Street, Whanganui
Hours: 10.00am to 4.30pm every day (except Christmas Day and Good Friday)
FREE entry
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages emerging Māori artists to create portraits of their tūpuna (ancestors) in any medium. The Award was launched in August 2020 and is hosted and administered by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia.
The Kingii Tuheitia Portraiture Award provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna (ancestors) and their stories.
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
A selection of works from the finalist exhibition will be on display at the Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead in Auckland from 18 February to 16 April 2023.
When photographer David Cook moved into Hamilton East, he was drawn to the colorful, creative and chaotic lives of his neighbours. With camera in hand, he explored back-yard mechanics to Sunday roasts, inventing an intimate documentary of a State Housing suburb in the 90s, moments before gentrification set in.
The exhibition will tour to Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato from October 7 2022 - 19 February 2023.
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
A selection of works from the finalist exhibition will be on display at the Percy Thomson Gallery in Taranaki from 23 September to 16 October.
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages emerging Māori artists to create portraits of their tūpuna (ancestors) in any medium. The Award was launched in August 2020 and is hosted and administered by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia.
The Kingii Tuheitia Portraiture Award provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna (ancestors) and their stories.
With 100 years separating them, photographers Edith Amituanai (b. 1980 Auckland) and George Robson Crummer (b. 1868 Auckland, d. 1953 Rarotonga) each capture moments in time from their Pacifica communities.
What emerges in the space between these two sets of portraits is a conversation about migration, colonisation, settlement, cross-cultural exchange and identity across the Pacific Ocean.
Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) is one of our most prominent and highly regarded photographers. This exhibition will show and explore the range and diversity of Marti’s portraits, including many that have never been shown publicly before.
Image: Marti Friedlander Self-portrait 1964
Star Gossage’s paintings show people as interconnected; inseparable from wairua (spirit), whenua (land), whakapapa (ancestry) or whanuau (family).
