Miscellaneous

Contemporary oil painting of new immigrants sitting around a campfire with Maori tourist dolls.

Voyage into 'Maoriland'

2009, Oil on Canvas, 122 x 152cm

Indeed there are no paths to the past, there are only the stories shaped by the teller. Postcolonial NZ sang a song of 'Maoriland' to our European counterparts, a sentimental tune of national identity espousing a land of deeply tattooed heroes & dusky maidens.

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