Te Awanui - Duane Moyle

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Sat 6 Mar ’10, 10:00am–2:00pm	Saving
Wed 10 Mar ’10, 9:00am–5:00pm	Saving
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Where: Fisher Brown Gallery, 57 Ninth Avenue, Tauranga Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

Website:

www.fisherbrowngallery.com

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Hayley Brown

Direct from the UK, this Masters of Painting graduate follows the success of his his solo at Fisher Brown last year, along with several shows in London. Each painting tells a story of this land, our home, and should not be missed by anyone who resides or revels in Tauranga.

Te Awanui is one of the earliest names given to the Tauranga area. Growing up in Mount Maunganui I thought it was a quiet, tranquil, if slightly sedate tourist destination. History reveals it to be a place of drama, treachery, war, peace, enchantment and treasure.

The ten works presented here delve into the history and cultural significance of the geography of Tauranga, utilising traditional Maori motifs as well as addressing European and colonial traditions of landscape painting.

The paintings continue my recent explorations into ideas of craft, decoration and sacredness. With these paintings, geometric tukutuku structures are overlaid with translucent landscape images to explore the harmonics of pattern, as well as cross-cultural ideas of depiction, visuality and narrative. Each painting references a specific event or significant era in Tauranga’s history, with tukutuku patterns chosen or invented for their symbolism or graphic appropriateness.