June 10, 2016
Rain reveals Matariki artwork
Matariki is here and events and artworks are popping up around the cities and towns to mark the Maori new year and the time for regeneration.
The celebrations in Tamaki Makaurau have started with the revealing of a piece of rain art at the bottom of Queen Street.
Hauhake or harvest by Janine and Charles Williams is a stencilled mural which is invisible until revealed by water, which makes ideal winter art.
It draws on the story of Janine’s great great grandfather William Castle, who was enlisted by Ngati Paoa in the 1950s to help manage trading and later married into the iwi.
"It was a significant part about doing the artwork right in the space of where the waka of Ngati Paoa would come in so there's a really really deep meaning to the artwork, it's quite a simple image but it was really important to have it there in a space where our ancestor's would have come in and for myself personally my great great grandfather and his trading post in Waitawa Bay and that whole transportation connection to that space in Auckland", says Mrs Williams.
FULL INTERVIEW: JANINE WILLIAMS
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