Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award 2021 – Finalists Exhibition
This is a truly special exhibition for art and culture lovers. Featuring the finalists from the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, the exhibition features 50 artworks.
Special Exhibition
This is a truly special exhibition for art and culture lovers. Featuring the finalists from the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, the exhibition features 50 artworks, which are hung in the Museum's Tāngata Whenua gallery.
Featuring paintings, whakairo (carving), raranga (weaving), photography, and ceramics, all the works are portraits of the artists' tūpuna (ancestors), in the first and only showing in the South Island.
The Award, in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia and created in partnership with Kiingitanga and the New Zealand Portraiture Gallery, was open to emerging Māori artists who have either created an artwork within the last two years, or wished to create an artwork especially for the competition, using any visual medium, with whakapapa connections to the depicted tūpuna.
This is a special space in Tūhura Otago Museum, and visitors are sure to be moved by the works alongside taoka in the dark and moody narrative of the gallery.
