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Jamie Te Heuheu

JAMIE TE HEUHEU

South of the Border Hamish McKay 18 April–9 May 2026 Wellington
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In 2024, a scholarship from Heritage Expeditions offered the chance to experience Fiordland, Stewart Island / Rakiura, and the Snares Islands / Tini Heke. A week-long voyage through wildlife, ragged peaks, deep green forests, and finally, the raw, storm-swept edge of the subantarctic.

What remains most vivid is not the specificity of place, but the pull of vastness, glittering water, distant horizons. The sensation of looking into something without end.

At the Snares, a storm kept the ship at distance, both hindrance and enhancement. The air filled with haze, the boundary between sea and sky collapsed, and the horizon nearly disappeared.

These paintings have been two years in the making. The idea was persistent and patient, knocking until the moment was right, until the scale and physicality the works demand could finally be answered. They are not records of a journey so much as an attempt to recover a feeling; the humbling experience of standing at the edge of something vast.

Text by Jamie Te Heuheu, April 2026. Courtesy Hamish McKay, Wellington

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Exhibition view: Jamie Te Heuheu, South of the Border, Hamish McKay (From 1 April 2026). Courtesy Hamish McKay.
Exhibition view: Jamie Te Heuheu, South of the Border, Hamish McKay (From 1 April 2026). Courtesy Hamish McKay.
Exhibition view: Jamie Te Heuheu, South of the Border, Hamish McKay (From 1 April 2026). Courtesy Hamish McKay.
Exhibition view: Jamie Te Heuheu, South of the Border, Hamish McKay (From 1 April 2026). Courtesy Hamish McKay.
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The Hamish McKay Gallery opened in 1993 and represents leading artists from New Zealand and Australia.

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Hamish McKay contemporary art gallery in Wellington New Zealand
Hamish McKay
16 Jessie Street, Wellington, New Zealand
+64 4 384 7140
http://www.hamishmckay.co.nz

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Friday - Saturday: 11am - 5pm, or by appointment
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