Artist Talk:Peata Larkin, Alexis Neal & Julie Paama-Pengelly
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Peata Larkin and Alexis Neal share in an open conversation with local artist and arts enabler Julie Paama-Penelly. Speaking personally and collectively about their art practices and coming together as like-minded thinkers and makers. Toi Tauranga welcomes you along to hear more about the current exhibition Whaka-aho presented at the Toi Tauranga POP UP Gallery - 42 Devonport Road.
PeataLarkin (Tūhourangi,NgātiWhakaue, NgātiTūwharetoa) and Alexis Neal’s (NgātiAwa/TeĀtiawa) practices intersect through their ancestral connections to weaving.Whaka-aho/connecting threads is a joint exhibition presenting a time-line of works that ignite shared conversations between the artists’ personal developments, influences, and materiality; celebrating weaving structures that explore a sense of identity.Whaka-aho is a new iteration of the artists’ 2022 exhibition Whakamataa Mangere Arts Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau
Julie Paama-Pengelly is a curator, writer, practitioner, and educator in Māori Visual Arts. Julie was an early force in the revival of Tā moko - customary tattoo, the same drive she applies to lead the development of Māori Arts in Tauranga Moana as chair of Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust.
When: 11am, Saturday 30th September 2023
Where: Toi Tauranga POP UP Gallery (42 Devonport Rd)
Admission is free (Seat reservations encouraged)
Refreshments provided after the conversation
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