GROUP EXHIBITION

Tamatea - Dusky Sound 1995 represents a key point of origin for the emergence of Pākehā art history, with the first oil paintings made in Aotearoa by William Hodges aboard The Resolution on Captain Cook’s second voyage. Hodges’ paintings evidence the arrival of European vision in New Zealand, including the colonial representation of Māori, while also recording this unique natural environment and its characteristic shifting light in a relatively faithful way.

Centuries later, Mark Adams, Darren Glass, Ian Macdonald and Haru Sameshima, along with historian, anthropologist and prominent Cook Voyage scholar Nicholas Thomas, chartered a boat to Dusky Sound in an ambitious expedition to retrace Cook and Hodges’ voyage and their pioneering representations. Generating diverse contemporary images and reflections of their own. In this exhibition their work captured during this remarkable journey has been brought together for the first time.