Local Grey Lynn artist Tui Hobson returns with a pop-up exhibition at 80 Mackelvie Street, Ponsonby, in the shop space recently occupied by The Poi Room.
The exhibition runs from 1 August - 20 August, 11am to 7pm daily. All works will be for sale.
The exhibition will feature new works including swamp kauri bench seats inspired by the vaka or early canoes that travelled from Rarotonga to Aotearoa. Themes of migration are also evident in her Pacific oars and abstract forms inspired by the islands of Polynesia.
Tui Hobson has worked as a sculptor and carver for the last 30 years. Her work reflects her Cook Island and European heritage.
Art has always featured strongly in Tui’s life. Her Pakeha father was a sculptor and cabinet maker and her Rarotongan mother was a weaver and fabric designer. The inspiration from her Rarotongan heritage is clearly reflected in Tui’s work. Tui has huge admiration for her grandmother who was a designer and sewer of tīvaevae.
Tui’s carvings range from small works to large outdoor sculptures made from recycled native timber, hard wood, stone, bronze and cast glass.
This exhibition is a chance for Tui to showcase her indoor pieces as it has been her large-scale public works for which she is most well known – works such as:
· Talking Pole, ‘Pacific Memories’, in Tokoroa.
· ‘Kava Chair’, Kells Park Albany.
· ‘Reclining Form’, which sits near the Akoranga bus station on Auckland’s North Shore.
· ‘Vaka to the Stars’, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum Taiwan.
· Carved poles for a fale at Mangere Bridge Primary school.
· Most recently, she travelled to Northern France where she designed and carved four seats for New Zealand’s Rangimarie commemorative garden at Le Quesnoy. The Xanthe White designed garden celebrates the heroism of New Zealand soldiers In World War One.
Following the Mackelvie Street pop-up exhibition, Tui will exhibit a collection of carved totems from 7 until 11 September at the 2023 Home Show at the ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane. These are larger outdoor works and are made from recycled timber.
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Published: 31 July 2023
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Published: 31 July 2023