KERMADEC - Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific

In May 2011 a group of leading artists from the South Pacific region travelled on the HMNZS Otago to a place rarely explored - the Kermadec Islands. The artists were Niuean-born John Pule, painter John Reynolds, inter-media artist Phil Dadson, leading Australian sculptor/installation artist Fiona Hall, Wellington-based sculptor Elizabeth Thomson, one of New Zealand's most acclaimed artists Dame Robin White, documentary film maker Bruce Foster, photographer Jason O'Hara, and text-based artist Gregory O'Brien.
In November 2011 an exhibition of all new art from these artists and inspired by their time in the waters of the Kermadec Trench went on display at Tauranga Art Gallery. And the good news for booklovers is that the Pew Environment Group has combined with the Tauranga Art Gallery to publish a truly beautiful, highly illustrated book which is both the story of the voyage and a documentation of the art inspired by the journey.

Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific
Edited by Bronwen Golder and Gregory O'Brien.
Pew Environment Group
Tauranga Art Gallery - RRP $40 (a bargain)

Footnote:
The Kermadec Initiative is a project of the Global Ocean Legacy programme of The Pew Environment Group. The Pew Environment Group is a supporter of the Kermadec artists' voyage and exhibition. The Pew Environment Group is looking to raise awareness about one of the greatest, least known, natural wilderness areas on the planet.

The Pew Environment Group and Unity Books

warmly invite you to the launch of

K E R M A D E C

Nine Artists Explore The South Pacific

with artists

Phil Dadson/ Bruce Foster/ Fiona Hall

Gregory O’Brien/ Jason O’Hara/ John Pule

John Reynolds/ Elizabeth Thomson/ Robin White

6pm Monday 12 December

Unity Books Wellington, 57 Willis Street