Art Work of the Week – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The versatile Pam Kessler

Writers group Pam is one of the founding members of the Calligraphers of Kapiti and is also a writer and artist.

She was short-listed in the recent Friends of the Library story competition and you can read her entry: The First Part of the Journey, by scrolling down to November 2.

This week’s art work is a painting by Pam entitled My tribute to Frances Hodgkins.

Pam comments that the piece is A2 size, on hot press Fabriano Artistico paper. I used Winsor & Newton gouache for the background and Winsor & Newton sepia ink for my renditions of the photographs.

My tribute to Francis Hodgkins — **My tribute to Frances Hodgkins**

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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.