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 Ralph Hotere: Atete (to resist). DPAG pub­lished this poem on the Gallery’s BIG WALL. Trustee’s Rob Tuwhare and Jeanette Wikaira attend­ed the open­ing of the exhibition.