35 jervois Road, ponsonby, auckland (09) 360 5217
Special thanks to:
2nd - 14th February
The works contain Tohunga, Atahu, Rongoā. Priest, Catholicism, stained glass landscapes. I sit within it, suspended in the Wā (space) of the red thread between grandmother and grandchild. Between those taken from their ancient spiritual traditions and those who claimed theirs was the only truth.
5.
Cross 1
430mm x 285mm
$450
19.
Kahu 4
635mm x 370mm
$1075
2.
Angel 1
755mm x 510mm
$1800
14.
Taiaha
1155mm x 175mm
$750
10.
Tui 3
335mm x 233mm
$375
7.
Cross 3
475mm x 250mm
$425
28.
Tuna 2
550mm x 275mm
$300
18.
Kahu 3
710 mm x 620mm
$1075
12.
Patu 2
390mm x 165mm
$395
3.
Angel 2
735mm x 435mm
$1250
26.
Chalice
325mm x 150mm
SOLD
4.
Processional Cross 1140mm x 275mm
SOLD
27.
Tuna 1
415mm x 285mm
$300
23.
Piwakawaka 4
170mm x 115mm
SOLD
22.
Piwakawaka 3
120mm x 150mm
$150
9.
Tui 2
200mm x 240mm
SOLD
24.
Piwakawaka 5
100mm x 155mm
SOLD
17.
Kahu 2
555mm x 540mm
$1075
11.
Patu 1
405mm x 130mm
$395
8.
Tui 1
225mm x 270mm
SOLD
15.
Manaia
495mm x 225mm
$520
21.
Piwakawaka 2
100mm x 155mm
$150
6.
Cross 2
475mm x 250mm
$425
20.
Piwakawaka 1
100mm x 160mm
SOLD
13.
Tewhatewha
1285mm x 275mm
$900
1.
Maxim Gun
(Part 1): 1250mm x 1900mm
Dog
(Part 2): 505mm x 470mm
$3500
Te Kuri O Te Wao, my Tipuna, Tohunga, Princess. She was the first Māori woman to become Catholic, later to renounce it. She became Methodist to continue to practice Rongoā, bridging the space between Tikanga Maori and pakeha religion: Wairua and Holy Spirit; healing stream and baptismal font.
For me ‘Losing My Religion’ is as much about the loss of Maori religion through the generations, as about finding it. Going home to Waima finding Whakapapa and Turangawaewae, within Kahu flight, healing stream, spiritual guardian. My DNA’s whisper telling the stories that reside within my blood, through the tip of my paintbrush.
- Penny Howard
‘Broken Karo pod
children fall
grieve our voices
Walk in darkness
find our hands
nothing other’
‘Mourning releases light; photosynthesis of learning
Blooms trumpet our beginning and end, before
Missionary alphabet - gilded in blood’
16.
Kahu 1
555mm x 540mm
$1075
25.
Tiki
260mm x 410mm
SOLD