Rēwana
Maker
Hiria Anderson
Production date
2019
Description
“My paintings show glimpses of everyday life as it happens. I look for moments in time that go unnoticed. It’s within those moments that I extract the allegory within the painting that might make us stop and unpack its contents a bit further. The painting Reewana happened because my whaanau (family) had just finished a kai (meal) of freshly baked Maaori bread. When they had all left the table, it looked like a typical western genre painting. Inside this painting I think about how we yearn to keep our customary practices of Reewana but at the same time our traditional natural diet is diminishing" – Hiria Anderson, artist.
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Object detail
Satin varnish
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