Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
The Future of Monuments
Today, many want to pull down war memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. Are there 'good' war memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' war memorials? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary war-memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? What form could future memorials take?
Everyday Mysticism: Artists Respond
8pm
Sculptor Glen Hayward’s practice brings the everyday into the gallery in profound and absurd ways. Reconsidering familiar objects is a concern shared by other artists. Join us as they discuss their practices and why they find commonplace objects compelling.
Urn (Live)
9pm
Sonic artists Thomas Carroll (Ngati Maru, Hauraki) and Rob Tyler respond to the themes of Matarau. Fusing taonga pūoro and modular synthesis, they incorporate rongoā plants as a modulation source, to create works inspired by Māori philosophy, cosmology and experimental noise music.
IMAGE Glen Hayward: Wish You Were Here City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi 2022. Photo Elias Rodriguez.
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Pip Devonshire
Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Te Au hapū, Ngāti Manomano hapū
Pip started weaving in the mid-80s, initially learning kete whiri at weaving wānanga held at Paranui marae. Pip’s weaving is influenced by her tupuna, Nanny Rangimahora Reihana Mete and Kui Ranginui Parewahawaha Leonard. These weavers were well known for their expertise in raranga and whatu and penchant for blending new ideas with traditional forms. Similarly, Pip’s work displays a natural attitude to innovation, transforming kete whiri from functional items to sculptural forms.
In 1994 Pip received an opportunity to produce tukutuku and kōwhaiwhai panels for Ngāti Manomano at Taumata o te Rā marae in Rangitīkei and enrolled as a Design and Art student at Te Wānanga o Raukawa learning tāniko, whatu and different raranga techniques.
In 2000 Pip became a tutor for the Toi Whakarākai programme for the Diploma of Design and Art at Te Whare Toi, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, with her teaching focus being raranga and whatu.
In 2020, Sonia Snowden and Pip Devonshire were announced as the inaugural Ngā Aho Whenua Weavers in Residence at the Toi Matarau Gallery within the Māoriland Film Hub in Ōtaki. During this residency, Pip also curated the Te Ringa Māhorahora exhibition, and Te Rōpū Wāhine Toko I te Ora of Te Awahou at Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom, Foxton, which commemorated 70 years of the Māori Womens’ Welfare League and their contribution to Māori development in that region and throughout the motu.
Recent exhibitions include:
Whiriwhiria: Tukua ki te Ao, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae (28 October 2023 – 21 January 2024)
Whiriwhiria, Toi Māori Gallery, Wellington (2022)
Tiaho Mai, Kiwibank Paraparaumu (2021)
Te Ringa Māhorahora, Toi Matarau Gallery, Māoriland Film Hub, Ōtaki (2021
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