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Tui Hobson: 'Va'ine Warrior' Sculpture & Carving Exhibtion

Wed, 05 Feb

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The Charlotte Museum

Tamaki Makaurau artist Tui Hobson’s latest exhibition draws on her Cook Island heritage and has an emphasis on the feminine form, and clebrates her thirty+ year career.

Tui Hobson: 'Va'ine Warrior' Sculpture & Carving Exhibtion
Tui Hobson: 'Va'ine Warrior' Sculpture & Carving Exhibtion

Time & Location

05 Feb 2025, 10:00 am – 19 Apr 2025, 4:00 pm

The Charlotte Museum, 1A Howe Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

About the event

Tamaki Makaurau artist Tui Hobson’s latest exhibition at The Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa draws on her Cook Island heritage and has an emphasis on the feminine form.


'Tui Hobson: 'Va'ine Warrior' Sculpture & Carving Exhibtion' is a celebration of a sculpture career that has spanned 3 decades and includes pieces from works created in the 1990s through to the present day.


Tui began carving female nudes in a relief format and progressed to sculpting freestanding works that range from small-scale pieces to large outdoor works. Tui works in recycled native woods, stone, cast glass and, most recently, in bronze.

Alongside the androgenous and feminine forms that are present in much of her work we see the enduring influence of the Pacific Islands, in particular the pattern of tivaevae, an art in which Tui’s grandmother was an expert practitioner. Themes of navigation and migration are evident too in…


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