A poem by NINA POWLES, written after Kerry Ann Lee’s installation Return to Skyland which begins: “One night in a dream, Kerry Ann Lee’s father journeyed from Wellington to Xi’an to see the terracotta warriors …”
Asian New Zealand Art & Culture
By Nina Powles
Blue Ocean, Yellow River: On visiting Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
NINA POWLES | The blue wave towers over me, rising up to the ceiling where it hangs suspended from domed glass. I imagine the wave rising higher and higher until it shatters the glass and flows out across the city in a blue current. This is Kiko Moana, a large-scale piece woven together from tarpaulin by Mata Aho…