Aroha Lewin: This is Maori Art

Sorry, this event’s been and gone

When:

Wed 23 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Thu 24 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Fri 25 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 26 Mar ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Tue 29 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Wed 30 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Thu 31 Mar ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Fri 1 Apr ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 2 Apr ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Tue 5 Apr ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Wed 6 Apr ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Thu 7 Apr ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Fri 8 Apr ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 9 Apr ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
View more sessions View less sessions

Where: Seed Gallery, 23a Crowhurst St, Newmarket Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Admission: Free

Website:

Seed Gallery

Favourites:

Seed23

Born in Christchurch in 1980 of Ngāpuhi descent, Lewin has been a resident of Auckland for most of her life. Drawing on both her Maori and Pakeha backgrounds, Aroha Lewin creates works which reference the fusion of the two, in a society where multiple cultures are now inexorably linked and inter-mingled. She reconfigures Maori design with a highly stylised aesthetic and using modern printmaking processes and materials.

For this exhibition, Lewin has created a series of limited edition prints which challenge our preconceptions of what constitutes Maori art. Her practise includes a re-appropriation of the ubiquitous and much-debated koru, and the use of bold colour and sardonic text to question notions of cultural correctness. For Lewin, cultural authenticity is less about remaining faithful to a lexicon of traditional symbols than it is about drawing from what is present and pertinent to society today.