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<\/a><\/p>\nE nga rangatira o Ngapuhi. Whakarongo mai.\u00a0 Kaua e uhia te Tiriti O Waitangi\u00a0 ki te kara o\u00a0 Ingarangi.\u00a0 Engari me uhi ano ki tou kara Maori, te kahu o tenei motu.\u00a0 A. Taonui<\/i><\/p>\n
Compelling artworks by twelve Hokianga artists have been created in response to Te W\u2019akaputanga Mai O Te Rangatiratanga, signed by Ngapuhi chiefs in 1835 and its context in Aotearoa today.\u201cThe show is resplendent in ingenuity and innovative vision, with a distinctive focus on materialities, ethics and cultural practices\u201d,<\/i>\u00a0says curator Heiwari Johnson.\u00a0 \u201cTe W\u2019akaputanga Mai O Te Rangatiratanga is a consummate proclamation of sovereignty where collective voices are unified enunciating some high-tensile moments in our country\u2019s recent history\u201d.<\/p>\n
Toi Te Rito Maihi<\/b>\u2019s profound, elegant korowai titled\u00a0A Tissue Of Lies\u00a0<\/i>comprise individual neckline tags with a photocopy of treaty signatures of Patuone and Tamati Waka Nene.\u00a0 The tags are constructed from paper still made in the Town Factory in Yorkshire, for heirs was the paper used by Busby in his initial drafts of the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/p>\n
Artist\u00a0Michelle Morunga<\/b>\u00a0excels in transforming 3D art pieces into a two dimensional painting.\u00a0 Her work titled\u00a0Rau Rangtira<\/i>\u00a0forms an assemblage of 179 individually painted, stitched and resined pohutukawa leaves signifying 179 years since the proclamation by the Confederated Tribes of New Zealand asserting their collective sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Maureen Lander<\/b>\u2019s\u00a0Kara Kahu\u00a0<\/i>highlight the symbolic parallels for Maori between cloaks and flags. In 1830 a cloak was flown from the mast of the ship Sir George Murray for trading purposes. The cloak-flag was not recognised by authorities and the ship was seized. However, in 1834 Te Whakaminenga confederation chose Te Kara to represent their collective sovereignty, which was approved by the British government and King granting world recognition of Maori as a trading nation.<\/p>\n
Photographer\u00a0Heather Randerson<\/b>\u00a0presents images of whenua overwritten by early maps of the Hokianga as a reflection of the collision of differing cultural perspectives towards land, foreshore and seabed and the impact of this on the rangatiratanga of tangata whenua.
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