Event Details
Diane Prince: Activist Artist is a survey of works by Diane Prince (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Whātua and Ngāti Kahu). Prince is a painter, weaver, installation art practitioner, set designer and educator, whose practice emphasises Māori rights. This exhibition brings together a selection of works that assert the mana of Prince's multimedia practice and foregrounds the close relationship between activism and art.
As part of Ngāti Whātua, Prince's formative involvement in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori land rights activism began in the late 1970s on Takaparawhau/Bastion Point. This experience was a catalyst for the activist/artist's political thinking and burgeoning progressive contemporary style. Over four decades, Prince has developed an extensive practice that portrays the impacts of colonisation and the legacy of ongoing Māori resistance. Diane Prince: Activist Artist underlines Prince’s assertion that "art is a reflection of life and political beliefs, a vehicle for politics: politics always comes first."
Curated by Gina Matchitt and toured by Pataka Art+Museum.
