Ava Seymour
I recently recommended that the Gallery acquire Ava Seymour's suite of photo-collages Health, Happiness and Housing . I consider these image...
Ava Seymour
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest art institution in New Zealand, with a collection numbering over 15,000 works. These include major holdings of New Zealand historic, modern and contemporary art, and outstanding works by Māori and Pacific Island artists, as well as European painting, sculpture and print collections ranging in date from 1376 to the present day.
Ava Seymour
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest art institution in New Zealand, with a collection numbering over 15,000 works. These include major holdings of New Zealand historic, modern and contemporary art, and outstanding works by Māori and Pacific Island artists, as well as European painting, sculpture and print collections ranging in date from 1376 to the present day.
Bastion Pt 30 years on
Settled in caravans and makeshift huts, the people of Ngati Whatua watched as army trucks rolled in and police filed out.
Overlooking Okahu Bay
Mission Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
Bastion Point protest, 1978
Protesters and police at Bastion Point during its occupation in 1978.
Ava Seymour - "Welfare Mom", from "Health, Happiness and Housing", 1997, New Zealand
Capturing conflict: Robin Morrison
Protest photography was one of the themes during our exhibition A Decade of Days – Auckland through Robin Morrison’s eyes. Sharon Hawke and Jos Wheeler, all too familiar with conflict beyond the lens, reflect on Morrison’s images from Bastion Point and the Springbok Tour of 1981.
Ava Seymour
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest art institution in New Zealand, with a collection numbering over 15,000 works. These include major holdings of New Zealand historic, modern and contemporary art, and outstanding works by Māori and Pacific Island artists, as well as European painting, sculpture and print collections ranging in date from 1376 to the present day.