Aratoi’s Current Exhibitions

Rita Angus, Marjorie Marshall, 1938-39/1943, oil on canvas. © Reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Rita Angus. Purchased 2019. Te Papa (2019-0012-1).

A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa. The exhibition brings together 20 works by one of New Zealand’s most iconic 20^th century artists, Rita Angus (1908–1970) with many of these never been displayed before in the region. 

The paintings span Angus’s life and career as an artist, drawing out the themes of pacifism, feminism and nature that shaped so much of her work. 

Another visiting exhibition is Dwayne Duthie’s Double Edge Sword from Taranaki. This exhibition aims to communicate ideas on human drive and desire related to the human condition, the connection to self-preservation and survival and how they can be both a benefit and liability.

These works are presented in painting, sculpture and digital forms utilising the symbolic and the abstract to highlight our desire to acquire, defend, connect, learn and largely survive.

Dwayne Duthie: Double Edge Sword 28 October- 3 December

Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa 30 September- 26 November