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2010

Studies for Te Awanui

the stories and the paintings

These works delve into the history and cultural significance of the geography of Tauranga, utilising traditional Maori motifs as well as addressing European and New Zealand traditions of landscape painting.

The paintings continue recent personal explorations into ideas of craft, decoration and the sacred role of art. Geometric tukutuku structures are overlaid with translucent landscape images to explore the harmonics of pattern, as well as cross-cultural ideas of depiction, visuality and narrative. Each painting references a specific event or significant era in Tauranga's history, with tukutuku patterns chosen or invented for their symbolism or graphic appropriateness.

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