Te Aho Wairere o Hokianga

2013 Rawene Applied Arts, NorthTec Graduate Exhibition

OPENING 4pm Wednesday 13th November 2013

Exhibition dates: Wednesday 13th November – Wednesday 11th December 2013

Important regional galleries Black_space and Village Arts are co-hosting the 2013 Rawene Applied Arts, NorthTec Graduate Exhibition Te Aho Wairere o Hokianga. We invite you to the opening at 4pm Wednesday 13th November in the main street of Kohukohu. The exhibition closes on 11th December.

This is a huge artistic and community event. Te Aho Wairere o Hokianga presents a resolved and unique body of work from each graduating student. The Rawene Arts programme is delivered by practicing artists. They are committed to the development of each student’s independent practice. Their individual voices form the next wave of the Tai Tokerau art movement. The annual graduate exhibition is supported by the entire region and reflects the importance of the bi-cultural makeup of our community.

The participating artists are Hebe Albrecht, Jan Barratt. Dawn Harris, Tavis Jacques, Lewis Manuera, Urikore Ngakuru, Rawiri Pepere, Reva Mendes, James Stirling and Eva Walker.

If you are interested in finding out more about the Rawene Applied Arts course please contact Maree Wilson on +64 (9) 4057409

From Zero to Five

A Figurative Journey in Clay

Sharon Terrizzi

OPENING 2pm Sunday 6th October 2013

Exhibition dates: Saturday 5th October – Saturday 9th November 2013

Not Archival

Claire Deighton

Exhibition dates: 31st August – 3rd October 2013

The Mists of Hokianga

NorthTec Rawene – Applied Arts (Visual)

Certificate and Diploma 1 Students

OPENS 1pm Wed 14 August

14 August – 30 August 2013 10am – 4pm

A Slice of Life: Stories About the Truck

1960 – 2010

a community project

Exhibition dates [Extended] 4th May – 24th June 2013

CURATOR’S STATEMENT

The story of the exhibition began in 2011 when the Depot Art Space in Devonport began a series of events called ‘Cultural Mapping.’….mapping our cultural genealogy, and asked us if we would like to participate.

The truck began its Hokianga career as a JG Richmond’s vehicle and has been part of this community in a historic, cultural and visual sense for nearly 60 years. It arrived in the Hokianga after WWII and departed in 2013.

The aim of this exhibition was to use the truck as a focus to uncover our social and cultural connections and to give them a visual focus. This truck has been photographed, documented, written about and published nationwide and the stories that go with this are what connects this community to each other and the rest of NZ. Stories are what make us who we are; they are the link between the past and the future.

I would like to acknowledge everyone who participated in this project…those who told their stories, those who gave us art works, those who loaned us all the props. My thanks to my fellow Trustees for having faith in me and giving me their total support.

My thanks to FNDC Creative Communities for the funding they gave us to make this exhibition possible.

I would like to finish with a quote from the great NZ historian, Michael King.

“If we want to remain NZ’ers, feel like NZ’ers, and to present ourselves to the greater world as NZ’ers, then we must be able to listen to our own voices and trace our own footsteps”

Curator: Marg Morrow

View report and photos at the Northern Advocate

Video courtesy of Yuko Guest

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Rust in peace

by Tony Watkins

We are our stories. They define us and bring us into existence. They make us who we are. If we live life to the full, and tell our story well, comedy will meet tragedy and pathos will give way to triumph. People are endlessly interesting. Through crafting and mediating our stories we also discover who we are. As we reveal ourselves to others, inspiring or encouraging them, our story becomes woven into the great communal story. In the beginning was the word. Continue reading “A Slice of Life”