Past Exhibitions

Kawarau 3

22 Mar - 13 May 2024

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Lunar Love
Pat Hanly Lunar Love (1981/2019)
Rabbit Fights Back 1
Paul Dibble Rabbit Fights Back 1 (2015)
Kaitiaki
Chris Bailey Kaitiaki (2023)
Red / Yellow Parrot Feather
Neil Dawson Red / Yellow Parrot Feather (2022)
Reflections - Halos
Neil Dawson Reflections - Halos (2017)
Musical Rat Study 2
Paul Dibble Musical Rat Study 2 (2021)
Looking for a Lost Home
Paul Dibble Looking for a Lost Home (2023)
The Quest for Immortality (Model)
Paul Dibble The Quest for Immortality (Model) (2023)
Somewhere in Central Hawkes Bay
Dick Frizzell Somewhere in Central Hawkes Bay (2023)
Orepuki
Dick Frizzell Orepuki (2019)
BoHoTIKI #5
Dick Frizzell BoHoTIKI #5 (2023)
Nataī - L'un des Chefs de la Baie Bream (Nouvelle Zélande)from Voyage de l'Astrolable 1826-1829, Plate 63
Louis Auguste De Sainson Nataī - L'un des Chefs de la Baie Bream (Nouvelle Zélande)from Voyage de l'Astrolable 1826-1829, Plate 63 (ca 1830)
Kaitiaki II
Neil Adcock Kaitiaki II (2022)
Tiki /6
Neil Adcock Tiki /6 (2020)
Whiwhi Part II (Present)
Te Rongo Kirkwood Whiwhi Part II (Present) (2016)
Meremere
Te Rongo Kirkwood Meremere (2021)
Two Fa'afafine (after Gauguin)
Yuki Kihara Two Fa'afafine (after Gauguin) (2020)
Fonofono o le Nuanua: Patches of the Rainbow II (after Gauguin)
Yuki Kihara Fonofono o le Nuanua: Patches of the Rainbow II (after Gauguin) (2020)
Si' ou Alofa Maria: Hail Mary (after Gauguin)
Yuki Kihara Si' ou Alofa Maria: Hail Mary (after Gauguin) (2020)
Te Waonui o Tāne
Lisa Reihana Te Waonui o Tāne (2021)
Pietà
Lisa Reihana Pietà (2021)
PELT - Pilosus
Lisa Reihana PELT - Pilosus (2016)
PELT - Sabino
Lisa Reihana PELT - Sabino (2016)
Aoraki
Michael Hight Aoraki (2024)
Taitapu: Farewell Spit
Michael Hight Taitapu: Farewell Spit (2022)
Mahua Road
Karl Maughan Mahua Road (2023)
Omakere Stream
Karl Maughan Omakere Stream (2023)
Green Road
Karl Maughan Green Road (2023)
Kotuku Waits
Chris Heaphy Kotuku Waits (2016)
Turn It Into Light
Chris Heaphy Turn It Into Light (2023)
Pétillant Necklace 1
Emily Siddell Pétillant Necklace 1 (2023)
Pétillant Necklace 5
Emily Siddell Pétillant Necklace 5 (2023)
Matt White Grooved Vessel [PC 17]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Vessel [PC 17] (2021)
Matt White Grooved Vessel [W+W-4]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Vessel [W+W-4] (2022)
Small Lattice No. 427
Ian Scott Small Lattice No. 427 (2012)
Small Lattice No. 430
Ian Scott Small Lattice No. 430 (2012)
Lattice No. 161
Ian Scott Lattice No. 161 (1987)

Exhibition Text

Kawarau 3 is an ensemble exhibition of new and museum standard works, featuring photography, paintings and sculpture.

Paul Dibble’s major-scale, parabolic Rabbit Fights Back 1 (2015) is the final artist proof released from the Dibble studio. Accompanying it are two emblematic works – Looking for a Lost Home (2023) and The Quest for Immortality (Model) (2023) – which also poignantly remind us of Dibble’s remarkable ability to imbue his works with a unique New Zealand vernacular and symbolic language.

New works by Karl Maughan, Dick Frizzell, Michael Hight and Chris Heaphy hang alongside iconic Lattice works by Ian Scott and three of Yuki Kihara’s acclaimed Paradise Camp suite, shown to never-ending international attention at the 2022 Venice Biennale.

Two of Lisa Reihana’s mythic and haunting PELT series (Sabino and Pilosus) are accompanied by another two photographic works from Ihi, her re-imagining of the creation story of Papatūānuku and Ranginui.

Chris Bailey’s outstanding and challenging Kaitiaki (2023) is a physical and symbolic marker of place, identity and history.

Te Rongo Kirkwood’s two cloaks are a rare unity of tradition and form, emotion and spirit.

Important works by Pat HanlyNeil Dawson, Emily Siddell, Neil Adcock, Louis Auguste De Sainson and John Parker complete Kawarau 3.