Event Details
Asaki Kajima, Leanne Morrison, Raewyn Tauira Paterson and Miria Pohatu
This exhibition is the second edition of a biennial partnership between Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery and the Gwen Malden Charitable Trust.
Four Hawke’s Bay artists, selected by a panel of local arts leaders, have received support to develop and exhibit new bodies of work: Asaki Kajima, Leanne Morrison, Raewyn Tauira Paterson (Ngāi Tūhoe) and Miria Pohatu (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Kahungunu).
These artists have distinct individual practices, while sharing common ground in their interest in what an artistic perspective can offer — a chance to take a broad and soaring view, or to zoom in closely to the small organisms that make up life — looking to the environment, relationships, self-image and memory.
Gwen Malden (1897–1973) lived almost her entire life in Hawke’s Bay and was a practising artist and committed supporter of the arts. Her legacy is a fitting foundation for artists working in the region today.
