By Mark Amery Courtesy of The Dominion Post 22/8/07

For a country that boasts a bicultural foundation, a Maori perspective is often sorely lacking within Wellington galleries. Te Huringa/Turning Points: Pakeha Colonisation and Maori Empowerment is the first major exhibition at City Gallery in some years that I can recall involving a Maori curator, and the tensions that lie underneath who frames what we see in an art gallery run through it.

Image: Tomika Te Mutu 1866, Major-General Sir Horatio Gordon Robley 1840-1930By Mark Amery Courtesy of The Dominion Post 22/8/07

For a country that boasts a bicultural foundation, a Maori perspective is often sorely lacking within Wellington galleries. Te Huringa/Turning Points: Pakeha Colonisation and Maori Empowerment is the first major exhibition at City Gallery in some years that I can recall involving a Maori curator, and the tensions that lie underneath who frames what we see in an art gallery run through it.

Image: Tomika Te Mutu 1866, Major-General Sir Horatio Gordon Robley 1840-1930--------------------------------------------------------------------

For a country that boasts a bicultural foundation, a Maori perspective is often sorely lacking within Wellington galleries. The recent publication by Te Papa Press of Taiawhio 2: C