Kermadec Exhibition at Maritime Museum

9 artists travelled on the NZ Navy ship Otago to the remote Kermadec islands. Video of their journey and artistic responses to the pristine string of volcanic islands along the edge of the Kermadec Trench are on exhibit at the Maritime Museum.

You might be as surprised as me to find that Raoul Island, the Doc inhabited island in the Kermadecs, is not off the tip of NZ but situated two days run in the ship out from Whakatane on the way to Tonga.

The work I loved best were the giant tapa's of  Robin White, the fabulous vibrant resin works by Elizabeth Thomson, Phil Dadson's sounds of the Kermadecs and Fiona Halls beaks and peaks.

Artists are: Phil Dadson, Fiona Hall, John Pule, John Reynolds, Robin White, Elizabeth Thomson, Bruce Foster and Gregory O'Brien.

. Exhibit entry is free to aucklanders with proof on address.