Headlands - Thinking Through New Zealand Art

Accompanied an exhibition which involved thinking about and through the art of New Zealand. It aspired to incorporate the dialectic of many points of view, of the multiple voices and experiences through which New Zealand art can be written and read. Maori artists and historians were involved throughout. However it was never the aim to present Maori art in parallel to Pakeha art. Rather the wish was to probe how the cultural traditions of Maori and Pakeha have interacted and evolved new forms, exceeding the earlier repertoires of each. These traditions now interweave more interactively than at any time in the previous history of New Zealand. That is the special excitement and challenge of the present historical moment...