| Ralph Hotere |
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Ralph Hotere was born at Taikarawa, Northland, New Zealand in 1931. He studied at the Central School of Art, London in 1961 and went from there to Vence, France where he received a residential award to paint at the Michael Karolyi Memorial Foundation. Hotere exhibited in the ‘Young commonwealth Artists’ show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1964 and returned to New Zealand in 1965. In 1969 he shifted to Dunedin where he took up the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. Since that time he has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and overseas significantly at the XI Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil 1971, the Sydney Biennale in 1984,‘Pacific Rim Diaspora’ Long Beach Museum LA, 1990, ‘Headlands’ toured by the MCA Sydney, 1992 and ‘Toi, toi, toi’ at the Auckland City Art Gallery, 1999. In 1973 a survey exhibition of Ralph Hotere’s work toured New Zealand and in 1997 ‘Out the Black Window’ a major exhibition of Hotere’s work with poets was mounted and toured by the Wellingtion City Art Gallery. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery toured 'Black Light', an exhibition of Hotere’s large scale works, during 2000. Hotere has been making lithographs regularly since 1984 and the prints have followed all his major themes since that time. He lives and works in Port Chalmers, Dunedin and is represented extensively in public and private collections in New Zealand and overseas. Photograph of the artist: Ross Coombes |
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