Festival review for Wednesday 11 March 2015
Tai Whetuki, Fale Ula and Close Encounters: PAH
Tai Whetuki and Fale Ula reviewed by Janet McAllister, Close Encounters: PAH by Raewyn Whyte.
Images from left: Lisa Reihana. Tai Whetuki/House of Death: Image: Lisa Reihana 2014. Photo: Kallan MacLeod. Costume: Bob Buck, Lisa Reihana. Talent: Hemi David. Fale Ula: Niki Hastings-McFall Work 3. Photograph: Michael Pöhlmann. Niki Hastings-McFall installation for Wunderruma, GalerieHandwerk, Munich 2014. Star Gossage, Seeds of the Heart II, 2010, Oil on board, 605 x 920mm, titled, signed and dated vers. Courtesy of Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington. Photo: Solomon Mortimer.
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