Sense Art - Te Au: Liquid Constituencies

Mon 12 Dec 2022
10:30—11:30AM
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre
Meet in the foyer
Free | Donations appreciated
Spaces are limited
Please contact us for more information:
+64 6 759 6060 | govett.info@govettbrewster.com

Our regular Sense Art programme offers the visually impaired community a tactile and audio-described tour of current exhibitions.

These events are especially for our visually impaired visitors, carers and guide dogs are most welcome.

This months session will focus on our new group show, 'Te Au: Liquid Constituencies'.

Ciaran Banks, Bonita Bigham, Megan Cope, Erub Arts, Ruha Fifita, Taloi Havini, INTERPRT, María Francisca Montes Zúñiga, Angela Tiatia, Te Waituhi ā Nuku: Drawing Ecologies, Arielle Walker.

We are nourished, shaped by, and dependent upon the waters and currents around us. Springs, streams, rivers and oceans have long been sources of food and sustenance, routes for voyaging and trade, and repositories of spiritual knowledge and a sense of identity.

We should be one with water and water with us. To be so would require a delicately held balance - one that has been disturbed by centuries of colonial expansion, resource extraction and industrial production. Now more than ever, the waters around us require care, restoration and guardianship.

'Te Au: Liquid Constituencies' gathers works by artists that engage in significant relationships with water. The exhibition is loosely structured around the rotating currents of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa-flowing from the unique landscape of Taranaki, down Te Ika-a-Māui to Horowhenua and the Kāpiti Coast, coursing past Antarctica and Patagonia, before moving through the waters around Tuvalu and Tonga among many other island nations, and along the Australian coastline.