...more to come about the performance...
(Maori chant, dance movements, live violin music, slide and video projections from various locations, drawing, and recorded music for a 30 min long performance. )
The installation:
Something about New Zealand
Left to right: Rewriting the Script, lithograph with readible text and four koru-like forms of women holding
book-like shields.
Sheep, a jigsaw puzzle with the text in charcoal underneath,
On my first day at art school a teacher said to me, "I hope you don't paint sheep". I thought he was joking.
A tangled tale, batiked strips of cloth with readible texts in three languages on each strip.
He toa takitini taku toa,
ehara i te toa takitahi, (My courage was the courage of many, not of just one), silkscreen, 1993, 26 x 41 cm, Edition of 12.
Ko toku matua whero (My red parent),
acrylic on paper, 1989,
50 x 70 cm, acrylic on paper, 1989.
Ladies Touch Sevens, 1990, Lithograph.
From the Matua series, 1990, acrylic on paper.