June 16 - July 8, 2023
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front through to back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
There are twenty-seven photographs in this exhibition. The title, Pūtahi / Confluence, describes the meeting of two peoples in one land – what is now and what could have been. As Neil Pardington has observed: “The whenua is a witness to change. Ancient sites of occupation, pā sites, sites of land war battles and subsequent land confiscations are all around us. While some are memorialised, the histories of many are known only to iwi and those with an interest in the history of Aotearoa. Appropriation and exploitation of whenua, awa, roto and moana is central to the colonial project – reflecting the values of that system. By viewing natural taonga colliding with infrastructure and urban landscapes, each image reflects a part of the story of the colonisation of Aotearoa.”
In the ongoing series Pūtahi / Confluence: Tauraka Toi, are images of Moeraki, Matakaea, Waihemo, Huriawa and Waikouaiti. The Moeraki tākiwa was home to Neil’s tūpuna wahine – and so Moeraki and nearby Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki were chosen as the starting point. Photographed are sites significant to Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe and Kāi Tahu iwi. Waitaha lived in Te Whata Pāraerae, Waihemo from as early as 1300 AD. Te Raka-a-hinetua, the pā site of Taoka at Kātiki, and Te Pā a Te Wera, the pā site of Te Wera at Huriawa, were both fortified pā set in dramatic coastal landscapes.
In the back gallery, the suite of smaller images, Tai Moana Tai Tangata, was made alongside Brett Graham’s exhibition and book of the same name. Neil Pardington designed that publication. His photographs capture impacts of colonisation on the Taranaki and Waikato rohe, including the Pioneer Gun Turrets, war memorials and the ’Think Big’ energy sites at Kapuni and Ōpunake.
Waihemo Te Awa, 2021
Kohekohe, Moeraki, 2021
Kātiki, Moeraki, 2021
Kā Pehu, Huriawa #1, 2021
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| Koekohe, Moeraki (café), 2021 | Trig Station & Hikaroroa, Huriawa (bullet holes), 2021 |
Waikouaiti Te Awa (crossing), 2021
Huatoki Te Awa, Ngāmotu / New Plymouth #1, 2021
Huatoki Te Awa, Ngāmotu / New Plymouth #2, 2021
Kaiwharawhara Te Awa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, 2021
Kaiwharawhara Te Awa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington (tank), 2021
Seacliff, 2021
Waiwhetu Te Awa, Seaview, Petone, 2021
Pioneer Gun Turret & War Memorial, Ngāruawāhia, 2021
Pioneer Gun Turret & War Memorial, Te Paina (Mercer), 2021
Manaia Redoubt Watchtower and Blockhouse, Manaia, 2021
Manaia Redoubt Watchtower (interior), Manaia, 2021
Kapuni Gas Treatment Plant Kapuni, 2021
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1500 x 1000mm; 1060 x 700mm; 600 x 400mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1500 x 1000mm; 1060 x 700mm; 600 x 400mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1500 x 1000mm; 1060 x 700mm; 600 x 400mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2022
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1500 x 1000mm; 1060 x 700mm; 600 x 400mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence
2021
pigment print on photo rag baryta, edition of 15
available in: 1000 x 1500mm; 700 x 1060mm; 400 x 600mm
Exhibited in
Pūtahi / Confluence