Watch the artist talk about this series on the screen to your left
Watch the artist talk about this series on the screen to your left
Audio guide narrator: Moana Ete
Scriptwriting and voice artists: Ralph Upton, Oliver Devlin, Joel Baxendale, Binge Culture Collective
Sound design and original music: Oliver Devlin, Binge Culture Collective
Te Papa contributors: Rebecca Rice, Curator Historical NZ Art; Megan Tamati-Quennell, Curator Modern & Contemporary Maori & Indigenous Art; Hanahiva Rose, Assistant Art Curator; Lizzie Bisley, Curator Modern Art; Isaac Te Awa, Curator Matauranga Māori; Justine Olsen, Curator Decorative Arts and Design Arts; Julia Kasper, Lead Curator Invertebrates;
Phil Sirvid, Curator Invertebrates; Heidi Meudt, Botany Curator.
UX design: Baastian van Druten, Head & Tail Design
Audio guide platform developer: Daniel Nash, Te Papa
Digital producer: Prue Donald, Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley, Te Papa.
Oil on panel
Purchased 2019 with assistance from Lottery Grants Board, Tuia 250 Fund (2019-0003-1)
Thanks to Rainer Spittel for the voice of Georg Forster
Oil on canvas
Acquisition history unknown (1992-0035-1883)
Ink and wax on Fabriano Tiepolo paper
Te Papa (2013-0012-1/1)
Oil paint on particle board
Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds (1999-0003-1)
Oil paint on canvas
Purchased 2000 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds (2000-0005-1)
Oil paint on canvas
Purchased 2015 (2015-0042-1)
Mixed media on canvas
Purchased 2020 (2020-0020-2)
Thanks to Megan Tamati-Quennell, Curator Modern & Contemporary Maori & Indigenous Art for her interview with Joel Baxendale and Ralph Upton, Binge Culture Collective.
Copper, silver wire
Commissioned 2022
Inkjet prints from gelatin negatives
Te Papa Collection (MU000523)
Photographic prints on c-type gloss paper
Purchased 2022 (O.049753/A-C to C-C)
From the series Tātara e maru ana – The sacred rain cape of Waiapu 2018-2020
Aluminium strip, wire
Commissioned 2022
Thanks to Kate Newby for her interview with Hanahiva Rose, Assistant Art Curator
Assorted clay, glaze, glass, thread, wire
Purchased 2022
Thanks to Art Curator Hanahiva Rose for her interview with Ralph Upton and Moana Ete.
Paper, wood, steel, plastic, paint
Purchased 1983 with New Zealand Lottery Board funds (1983-0082-1)
35-minute video with voiceover
Purchased 2023
Acrylic on board
Purchased 2020 (2020-0004-1)
Acrylic on board
Purchased 2020 (2020‑0004‑3)
Acrylic on board
Purchased 2020 (2020‑0004‑2)
Thanks to Curator Modern & Contemporary Māori & Indigenous Art, Megan Tamati-Quennell for her interview with Moana Ete.
Inkjet display print from original gelatin glass negative
Acquisition history unknown
Thanks to Ralph Upton for scriptwriting and the voice of Jim, and Oliver Devlin for Victor. Production by Binge Culture Collective
Watercolour
Gift of George Gibbs, 2021 (2021 0002 2/2 12)
Thanks to Julia Kaspar, Lead Curator Invertebrates and Phil Sirvid, Curator Invertebrates for their interview with Ralph Upton and Moana Ete.
Watercolour, chromolithograph
Purchased 1919 (1992‑0035‑2277/77); gift of Mr F R Bock, date unknown (GH025423)
Thanks to Heidi Meudt, Botany Curator and Rebecca Rice, Curator Historical NZ Art.
Colour pigment print
On loan from Wayne Barrar
Thanks to artist Wayne Barrar for his interview with Ralph Upton.
Colour pigment print
Purchased 2021 (O.049388)
Thanks to science writer, Ursula Cochran for her interview with Ralph Upton.
Photograph from digital video by Raewyn Atkinson. Reproduced courtesy of Raewyn Atkinson
Purchased 2020 (2020-0029-1)
Thanks to Raewyn Atkinson for her interview with Curator Decorative Arts and Design Arts, Justine Olsen.
Ochre, soil, rock, clay, tree gum, shells
Materials preparation
Lanae Cable, Ngāti Hokopū, Ngāi Tamawera, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāi Tūhoe iwi (tribes)
Sarah Hudson, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāi Tūhoe iwi (tribes)
Thanks to Lanae Cable and Sarah Hudson of Kauae Raro Research Collective for their interview with Ralph Upton.