Video
Kelcy Taratoa: Te Tāhū o ngā Maunga Tūmatakahuki
2020
This timelapse video shows the installation of a vast new painting by Kelcy Taratoa about how we are bound together.
Videographer: John Collie
Commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Echoing the overlapping forms of the Māori art of tukutuku, this vividly coloured wall painting by Kelcy Taratoa weaves together a story of exploration and connection. Spanning 36 metres across Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū’s outer east wall, best viewed from Gloucester Street, it’s about everything that binds us together, from the ocean to the stars. This painting, and another related wall painting inside, were commissioned to accompany the major exhibition Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania. Taratoa worked with the support of mana whenua to ground the work in local narratives that relate to discovery and whakapapa. Within the painting’s abstract composition are islands, a maunga (mountain) and kāhui whetū (cluster of stars). They relate to early voyages of discovery across the Pacific and how whakapapa (genealogy) can unite people in a common kaupapa, or purpose.
Photographer: John Collie
Commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Kelcy Taratoa: Te kore, te-wiwia a space without boundaries
2019 – 2020
A timelapse shows the instalment of Te kore, te-wiwia A Space without Boundaries , 3 huge paintings covering the atrium walls at Tauranga Art Gallery Toi Tauranga. This work was commissioned by the gallery to coincide with the a survey exhibition of Taratoa’s works spanning over 20 years with 40 paintings selected from private and public collections.