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Works from Chaco Kato, Kura Te Waru Rewiri, Lorraine Webb and Lily Aitui Laita are on show at the Making Worlds exhibition.

Whanganui UCOL is hosting an international art exhibition titled Making Worlds, showing seven artists’ views of their worlds through their work. 

The exhibition was curated by UCOL Fine Arts Senior Lecturer Lorraine Webb and all of the invited artists have visited, worked at, or graduated from the Quay School of the Arts, initially part of Wanganui Polytechnic then, after 2001, Whanganui UCOL.

The artists were asked to think about the relationship between the world and their work, and their views of their own place at this intersection. The artists responded by sending work that includes sculpture, painting, printmaking, and installation, drawings and mixed media work. 

As well as creating a rare opportunity for the Whanganui public, the exhibition is the subject of a conference paper to be co-presented at The World and World-making in Contemporary Art; Connectivities and Differences; a conference hosted by the School of Humanities, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia in August. The paper will be co-presented by Lorraine Webb and her sister Professor Jen Webb who is the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra.

The participating artists are:

Chaco Kato, Japan/Australia; Lily Aitui  Laita, Auckland, artist and educator of Samoan, Maori ( Ngati Raukawa) and Pakeha origin; Kate Lepper, completing MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London; Faith McManus, (Ngapuhi, Ngati Takoto) Printmaker from the Far North; Helen Manning, UCOL graduate from 2008 and now living in Hamilton; Kura Te Waru Rewiri, ( Ngati Kahu, Ngatirangi, Ngati Rehia, Ngati Raukawa ki Kauwhata) an internationally recognised artist now living in Whangerei and Lorraine Webb, Curator, Whanganui UCOL.

Making Worlds, Edith Gallery, Whanganui UCOL, 16 Rutland Street until 15 July.

Weekdays 9am – 4pm.