Bruce Connew, Aroha 1866, 2018
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Bruce Connew, Surveyors/Titokowaru, 2018
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Over several recent years, Bruce Connew has roamed memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars, seeking out the texts on these testaments to folly. A vocabulary of colonisation. These remnants are scattered across mostly Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, residual memory, misremembered, not remembered. And there are those who know the Imperial story only too well.
A Vocabulary first exhibited at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery in 2021 and has since showed at Toi Tauranga Tauranga Art Gallery, Te Kōngahu Museum of Waitangi, MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri, and the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa.
{Suite} is pleased to present a selection of the works from this body of work alongside the artist book (Vapour Momenta Books, 2021) with He Mōteatea and essay by Dr. Rangihīroa Panoho.
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Over several recent years, Bruce Connew has roamed memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars, seeking out the texts on these testaments to folly. A vocabulary of colonisation. These remnants are scattered across mostly Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, residual memory, misremembered, not remembered. And there are those who know the Imperial story only too well.
A Vocabulary first exhibited at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery in 2021 and has since showed at Toi Tauranga Tauranga Art Gallery, Te Kōngahu Museum of Waitangi, MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri, and the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa.
{Suite} is pleased to present a selection of the works from this body of work alongside the artist book (Vapour Momenta Books, 2021) with He Mōteatea and essay by Dr. Rangihīroa Panoho.
