Sunday, December 3, 2023

Always Song in the Water

Always a Song in the Water – audio tour by the curator Gregory O’Brien

Robin White, In the Offing, 2022-2023

influences   Stencilling   techniques

Uses _______

Tapa making __________

Middle-Eastern ________

 

Denis O'Connor, Oarnest,1985

wishing   boats   Irish traditions    “earnest”     limestone

is carved from ________

draws from _________

uses a pun on the word __________

references "_________ trees"

refers to the way _______ look when the tide goes out

 

David Trubridge, Then and Now, 2018

Windsurfing    sail   English-born   never

an ­­­­___________ artist who likes _________

uses a type of _____ ______used by western sailors

 

John Pule, Momoheaga, ​​​​​​​2020

Niuean-born   fecundity   vegetation    under the water   in a larger perspective

a _________ artist

represents  _________ that grows  _________ as well as above

tries to put human life  ________

emphasises the  _________ of nature

 

Shona Rapira Davies, Job 41 - Cans’t thou draw out leviathan with a hook

Bible   underlying themes   is based on   unromanticised   older

refers to the _______

_______ a personal memory

shows an ________ version of whales

an _______ Maori artist

has  __________ of pain and loss

 

Chris Charteris, Itutu, ​​​​​​​2023

links   echoes    for the title  highlight  ancient    whalebone

uses a Kirabati word  _________

is made of _________

is the curator's ________ of the exhibition

refers to one of the most ________ human technologies

is about _____

________ the movement of waves

 

Elizabeth Thomson, The Fearless Five Hundred, 1989

heroism     Bronze   "collective intelligence"

is made of _______

refers to the __________  of some creature

refers to a famous Nineteenth Century poem about _________

Euan McLeod, Boat above submerged figure, 2012

sea level rise  one figure

might be referring to _______

uses _______ to represent all of us

 

Nikau Hindin, Kōkōwai ki Kōkōrangi

revives   Tongan     Navigational  younger

has references to ancient _________ technologies

is by a  ________ Maori artist

makes references to  ________ symbols

________ a lost tapa-making tradition

 

Florian Habicht, Land of the Long White Cloud, 2009

fishing    Spirit    focuses on   New Zealand

__________ Northland

refers to the _________ pathway

refers to the Maori name of  _______

focuses on a ________ competition

Recurrent theme:

How ______ is our understanding of the places we go?



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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