Shona Rapira Davies: Ko te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa

A major installation by senior artist Shona Rapira Davies (Ngāti Wai ki Aotea) remembering the peaceful resistance of children during the New Zealand wars in Taranaki in the late 1800s. Occupying the soaring spaces of the Gallery foyer, Ko te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa takes the form of a tohorā (whale) tail as a memorial to tamariki killed or displaced by colonial forces. The work recognises the connection between the Taranaki Wars and Ōtautahi Christchurch, where 160 peaceful protestors from Parihaka were imprisoned on Rīpapa Island in Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour in 1880.