Exhibition listing

Tyrone Te Waa, WīWī WāWā

15 July – 12 August 2023
Tyrone Te Waa, Hupe, 2023, wool, stretcher, 24.5 x 18.5 cm

A much anticipated first exhibition at the Gallery by the artist who compares his art-making process to ‘cooking lunch’. Using an exuberant and tactile palette—wood, fabric, paint and string—he combines methods of assembling, binding, hiding, attaching, knotting, tangling, felting and wrapping. His autobiographical and ancestral reflection is informed by research into takatāpui/gay/queer histories in Aotearoa New Zealand—and the language of avant-garde deconstructive fashion.

Opening at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on Saturday 6 July, the triennial exhibition provides a platform for new art and ideas in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Shane Te Waa on Tyrone Te Waa's Wīwī Wāwā.

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