Art Work Of The Week: Kingfisher – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

A welcome addition to the Kapiti art community

By Pam Kessler

The dog is called Izzy and is graphite on water colour paper.

Lorna Ward has recently retired on the Kapiti Coast meaning more time for art work.

Whilst Lorna works in a number of media, at this stage of her art interests, Lorna enjoys detailed graphite and colour pencil work.

Here’s what she says about this week’s Art Work: The kingfisher is coloured pencil on water colour paper. It is drawn from a photo taken by Roger Smith of Waikanae Beach (with his permission).

The kingfisher is one of two who live at the Waikanae River estuary lagoon and Roger regularly goes and photographs them.

Kingfisher by Lorna Ward

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100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.