TE AO HURIHURI - THE EVER CHANGING WORLD
st Pancras Crypt, London October 2018
Eight artists from Handshake 3 and three from Handshake 4 collaborate with London based “Dialogue Collective”
two groups of artists from opposite sides of the world met to exhibit their works in collaboration at The Crypt Gallery in London. Artist group and ‘home’ team – Dialogue Collective – and ‘away’ team– HANDSHAKE– were mooring their creative boats side-by-side in The Crypt to discuss responses to ‘journeys’. These journeys are personal to the artists and include some thorny historical ones, like issues of cultural identity & appropriation, colonial legacy & guilt, land ownership & theft.
In the last 250 years Oceania islands have been explored, colonized and its rich resources increasingly exploited for capital gain. This Industry has driven us away from sustainable practices with damaging effect to our eco system, our basic human need for food and shelter will always remain the same so my work grouping of new and recent work talks about the need to repair, preserve and protect Aotearoa, to tatou kainga, whenua and me te moana.
st Pancras Crypt, London October 2018
Eight artists from Handshake 3 and three from Handshake 4 collaborate with London based “Dialogue Collective”
two groups of artists from opposite sides of the world met to exhibit their works in collaboration at The Crypt Gallery in London. Artist group and ‘home’ team – Dialogue Collective – and ‘away’ team– HANDSHAKE– were mooring their creative boats side-by-side in The Crypt to discuss responses to ‘journeys’. These journeys are personal to the artists and include some thorny historical ones, like issues of cultural identity & appropriation, colonial legacy & guilt, land ownership & theft.
In the last 250 years Oceania islands have been explored, colonized and its rich resources increasingly exploited for capital gain. This Industry has driven us away from sustainable practices with damaging effect to our eco system, our basic human need for food and shelter will always remain the same so my work grouping of new and recent work talks about the need to repair, preserve and protect Aotearoa, to tatou kainga, whenua and me te moana.
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