Adorning Rangi includes new, recent and seminal works from six significant artists.

Lisa Reihana in a masterful suite of photographs from Ihi Mother and Son re-imagining of the creation story of Papatūānuku and Ranginui allows us to witness the terrible, mythic beauty of the world’s creation. 

Israel Birch’s transcendent, tactile, ever-changing works seamlessly slip between time and place. Harnessing light, the symbolic languages of pattern and carving, he elicits the presence of Māori spiritual worlds.

Chris Heaphy is also concerned with time and place, where birds act as the intermediaries between heaven and earth, past and present.

Darryn George’s authoritative, minimalist abstracted paintings feature central hovering forms in monumental fields of colour. Combining the metaphysical and the spiritual together, talking across time, these works honour and uphold the mana of people.

Heidi Brickell’s new works feature motifs of waka in a conversation about collapsed time. Woven patterns, intimations of hands, metaphors of ocean travel and belonging, shapes drawn in string, shifting time and space, the intimacy of lovers and language itself reach in and out of empowering visual melodies.

New bronze sculptures by Ben Pearce continue the plurality of his totemic forms. Part-human, part-futuristic robot, primordial while tender, in works which alter significantly with different viewing positions, the bronze planes of these meditative forms engage with light in remarkable ways suggestive of an inner energy hibernating.

Presented in partnership with Te Kano Estate.