Hotere.

Hone Tuwhare and Ralph Hotere were good friends; their inde­pen­dent artis­tic careers unit­ed by a shared con­cern for human rights and injus­tice.  There was a mutu­al respect and moments of cross-pol­li­na­tion between the work of each. Hotere drew on Tuwhare’s poems in sev­er­al of his paint­ings, also con­tribut­ing cov­er designs for a num­ber of Tuwhare’s vol­umes of poet­ry.  In 1970 Tuwhare released the book Come Rain Hail, which includ­ed the poem Hotere – a reflec­tion on art, friend­ship, time and space. In Novem­ber 2020 the Dunedin Pub­lic Art Gallery opened the exhi­bi­tion RALPH HOTERE: ATETE (to resist) and pub­lished the poem Hotere on the Gallery’s BIG WALL

Tuwhare Trustees Rob Tuwhare and Jeanette Wikaira attend­ed the exhi­bi­tion open­ing, it was a very spe­cial evening and a breath­tak­ing exhibition.

Pho­to: Hone Tuwhare and Ralph Hotere. Pho­to­graph by Gil Han­ly. Pri­vate Collection.