Te Manawa Art Gallery’s summer schedule is a treat for lovers of contemporary and 20th-century New Zealand art.
Multiple exhibitions celebrate some of our most highly regarded artists and bring us new work from the cutting edge of creativity.
Every year Te Manawa hosts the Matatau exhibition. The title means “mastery”, “fluency” or “to be learned”, and the show is the chance for graduating students of Toioho ki Āpiti at Massey University to demonstrate their craft. Each artist explores issues of mana whakapapa, mana whenua and mana tangata through their chosen medium.
The jewellery works of Aroha Millar juxtapose Māori narratives of equality and consent with the colonial practices that have impinged upon them. Raukurawaihoea Naani Waitai’s paintings ask us to consider, in our rush for progress and a “better” world, the cost to the land and its people. Every artwork on the walls is a statement. Come and hear what they have to say.
