Museum to show ‘Aotearoa Liberators’ poster exhibition A poster exhibition which includes work by three longtime local artists – Xavier Meade, Jenny Rhodes and the late Katerina Mataira – will open next month in the atrium of Raglan Museum.
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And Xavier, a Wintec eco-design and visual arts lecturer who inspired the project in 2007, says “it is good to bring it home”. Entitled ‘Aotearoa Liberators’, the collection of 12 posters in all – to be exhibited on each side of moveable wall panels – has been shown only briefly in Raglan before, he says, during a festival at the kokiri centre a few years ago. But the collection has travelled over the years to several places including Cuba where the posters were screenprinted by hand, Mexico from where Xavier originates and Spain’s Museum of Illustration in Valencia. In New Zealand the posters have been exhibited in Christchurch, at Waikato Museum, on Waiheke Island and at the Parihaka International Peace Festival on the Taranaki coast. Now they’re here to stay as they’ll remain in the Raglan Museum’s safekeeping once the month-long exhibition ends. Each of the posters has an accompanying story to tell, Xavier explains. One of his own works, Tane Mahuta, tells the story of the creator in Maori history, while Jenny Rhodes – who was close to Raglan’s Eva Rickard – tells of the late Maori activist’s fight to have the land which was confiscated by the Government for an aerodrome during World War Two returned to her people. Some of that land was finally returned in 1984, six years after Eva’s arrest; the remainder is still an airstrip.
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University, the National Library in Wellington and Te Wananga o Aotearoa in Te Awamutu. Other artists to contribute works were Josh Watene, Dion Hitchens, James Orsmby, Tessa Laird, Simon Cuming, Leafa Wilson, Warren Olds and Nicola Farquhar. Raglan & District Museum Society president Pat Day told the Chronicle the exhibition had a lot to do with Raglan and, though it was not an art museum, he believes it was “appropriate” to now exhibit the collection here. See Aotearoa Liberators at Raglan Museum, June 1 -30.
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And Katerina Matira’s work of renowned artist, the late Ralph Hotere, tells of his protest paintings and of his rejection of all violence against humanity and the environment. The collection, sponsored by Wintec, was a direct response to Xavier’s invitation to artists in Aotearoa to design a poster and write a text about a liberator or activist in the country whose work resonated personally with them. Every contributing artist received one of the 50 sets of posters printed in Cuba while other sets were sold to the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca in Mexico, Waikato Museum, Waikato
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It's the talk of the town that our Aaron Brunet has made it into the final three on Masterchef New Zealand. And now the question is, can he go all the way.
In Sundays show, the Top Four contestants faced the ultimate invention test – cooking whatever they liked, with whatever ingredients they liked. Performing for not only for the MasterChef judges, they also faced a very hard taskmaster: guest judge Ben Bayly, executive chef of award-winning Auckland restaurant The Grove. Aaron embraced the challenge and took a risk by combining liver and lamb which the judges commented they had never seen before. "The judges certainly seem a bit mystified by the idea of lamb and liver together and the also by the pear and cheese puree. It's an invention test so I'm inventing left, right and centre and I just hope it works out" said Aaron. The judges were indeed mystified "It's either
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