ROSS HEMERA [Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu] Kua hoki mai ngā Karae 2021 (detail) Courtesy of the artist

RACHAEL RAKENA Ko te wai he wai ora 2021. Film still (detail). 16 channel film. Courtesy of the artist. Collaborating creatives: Paulette Tamati-Elliffe (Kāi Te Pahi, Kāi Te Ruahikihiki (Ōtākou), Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga) and whanau, Komene Cassidy (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Takoto), Rachael Rakena (Kāi Tahu, Ngā Puhi), Michael Bridgman (Tonga, Ngāti Pākehā), Laughton Kora (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Awa), Iain Frengley (Ngāti Pākehā), Ross Hemera (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu) , Mara TK (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui), Amber Bridgman (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha, Rabuvai), and He Waka Kōtuia.

Rachael Rakena [Kāi Tahu, Ngā Puhi] Ko te wai he wai ora 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

SIMON KAAN [Kāi Tahu, Kati Irakehu, Kāti Mako] Whakaruku 2021. Digital photograph on cotton paper, ceramic waka

RONGOMAIAIA TE WHAITI (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Kāti Wheke, Kāi Tuahuriri, Kāti Kuri) Maata/Martha/Wharerimu 2021. Oil on canvas

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Tohorā] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

MARTIN AWA CLARKE LANGDON (Kāi Tahu, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Hikāiro, Ngāti Whawhākia) Untitled (rendered) 2021. Uku/clay, rākau/wood, peita/paint, tāia kāpia/3D printed resin

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Tohorā] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

VICKI LENIHAN (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Huirapa, Ngāi Tūāhuriri) He Whao | Skills 2021 (detail) He kai kei aku rikarika – there is food at my hands. SLS nylon and steel acrylic paint

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Tohorā] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Whakawhitika] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

PETER ROBINSON (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Kurī) Urutaka 1–5 2021 (detail). Plastic

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Whakawhitika] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Kaihaukai Collective: Simon Kaan [Kāi Tahu, Kāti Irakehu, Kāti Mako] Ron Bull [Kāi Tahu, Ōraka Aparima]. Untitled Midden 2021. Mahika kai, midden on table, digital video.

Simon Kaan [Kāi Tahu, Kati Irakehu, Kāti Mako] Whakaruku 2021. Digital photograph on cotton paper, ceramic waka

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Whakahekeka o kā Roimata] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

ARETA WILKINSON (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Kāti Irakehu, Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke, Ngāi Tūāhuriri) Star Whata: Space Odyssey 2021 2021. Mixed media

NATHAN PŌHIO (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu, Kāi Tūāhuriri) Te Māku and Māhoranuiātea / The mist and the horizon 2021. Aluminium section, led, acrylic

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Waka Tūpuna] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

LONNIE HUTCHINSON (Kāti Kurī ki Kāi Tahu, Sāmoan, Takata Moana, Scottish, English) Becoming Sound 2021. Laser-cut and powder-coated aluminium

KIRI JARDEN (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne, Ngāti Toa Rangātira, Kāti Hāteatea, Ngāti Waewae, Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Ngāti Mairehau, Ngāti Haumia ki Paekākāriki) Āe rā, i mātātoa ia 2021 (detail). Clay, Te Heru-o-Kahukura pigment, Waitakere pigment

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place [Waka Tūpuna] 2021. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

AYESHA GREEN (Kāi Tāhu, Ngāti Kahungunu) Inside Tamatea 2021 (detail). Acrylic, vinyl

Simone Montgomery [Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu] For Titi Palmer 2021 (detail). Paper, photocopy print, flax paper, clay pigment, flax, polyester thread, tracing paper, cotton muslin

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi

A Landing Place

11 December 2021 - 25 April 2022

Ka noho a Paemanu: Tauraka Toi ki te roro matua, ā, ki kā taiwhaka whakaatu e ono ki te papa tuatahi o Te Whare Toi Tūmatawhānui o Ōtepoti.

Nei ko te taiwhaka toi, tō mātau tauraka, tō mātou tūka mō te mahi toi o Kāi Tahu

E toro atu ai a mahara ki whakapata, ki te tautaka mai o tō waka

I whakamoanitia e tō tāhūhū he ātea e mauroa ana ki tēnei nei tāhuna

Ka tirohia te wāhi nei, kia hōrapa ana tō āhua

Nōu te kōhatu tū moana i herea rāia mai ai

I a tātau e rakitāmirotia anōtia, ka hoki a mahara ki tō tauraka

Hāi ēnei raki anō tō āhua ka whakatokotoria

Ross Hemera

I tīmata tā mātau, ko te Mana Whenua haereka i te whakatūraka o te kōhatu ki te roro matua. Ki te whakaaturaka ‘Hurahia ana kā Whetū’ i tūwheratia i te Māruaroa, ko Ross Hemera rāua ko Cath Brown te hāpai, nā i waere ai te ara kia tau ai a, ‘Paemanu: Tauraka Toi’.

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi - A Landing Place will occupy the foyer and the six galleries on the first floor of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Here the gallery is our tauraka, a landing place for Kāi Tahu art.

So long ago we remember when you landed your waka

Your tāhūhū smoothed an ātea deep forever on this tāhuna

We look around this place to lay out your āhua

It was your kōhatu that assured a firm anchorage

When we draw together again it is time to remember your tauraka

We will lay out your āhua again today

Ross Hemera

Our journey began with mana whenua and the placing of kōhatu in the gallery foyer. In the collection show Hurahia ana kā Whetū which opened in June, Ross Hemera and Cath Brown, the advance party, set the scene for our arrival, Paemanu: Tauraka Toi.

Co-curated by a team of senior Kāi Tahu contemporary artists and Paemanu trustees - Areta Wilkinson, Ayesha Green, Lonnie Hutchinson, Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Nathan Pōhio, Peter Robinson, Rachael Rakena, Rongomaiaia Te Whaiti, Ross Hemera, Simon Kaan, Kiri Jarden and Vicki Lenihan. The exhibition will feature newly commissioned works and usher in a new generation of artists alongside well-established practitioners.

This exhibition included a work on the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Big Wall.

A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist Project supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and project partner, Dunedin School of Art.

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