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Exhibition Opening: ‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ Shannon Frankis

28 August @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Exhibition runs: 28 August – 15 September 2026
Opening event: Friday 28 August, 5.30pm-7.30pm

An exploration of cultural identity, love, loss and how current culture fed through the media affects tradition. A combination of large and small atmospheric works with an emotional residue of things lost and things left behind.

These works are predominantly female portraits or figures in private moments with bicultural ethnicity, carrying cultural motifs which can be read as autobiographical – Polynesian/Maori/English.

(Pictured: Te Waka whero i te Ngahere (Red Canoe in the Forest), 2023)

Details

  • Date: 28 August
  • Time:
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm