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    Te Ata Pō w/ Thom Hinton & Te Marunui Hotene: 11 September, 2026

    Te Ata Pō is an exhibition by Thom Hinton and Te Marunui Hotene currently on at Grace Aotearoa. Placing their practices in conversation with one another, a rich dialogue is created within the space surrounding expression and form, distinct cultural histories and relationships to place, as concepts and aesthetic languages that thread their practices together.  Thom Hinton is a Tāmaki-based artist and tattooist whose painting and drawing practice brings in these earthly materials – charcoal, oxide, clay, plaster – in an exploration of archetypal symbols in European cosmology. Drawing on ancient histories of mark making and their impact on contemporary structures, Hinton examines these early medieval artistic practices, or insular art, in relation to our understanding of beauty and reverence today. What comes out of these curiosities is this rhythmic mark making – a beautiful contrast between abstract and symbolic sensibilities and material languages.  Te Marunui Hotene is a multidisciplinary artist based in Taneatua, whose practice draws on his cultural identity and whakapapa, using his art as a platform for reflection and processing experience. Within Te Ata Pō, Hotene presents a beautiful series of new works, as well as some older pieces from his earlier practice – creating this beautiful conversation around the self, past and present. His recent pencil drawings draw on his mau rākau practice, utilising realism to document scenes from recent wananga held in Tūhoe. From this exploration, Hotene has brought in mānuka as a material, subject, and framing device – materially expanding his artistic practice through its burning and tikanga. Sof caught up with Thom and Te Marunui about Te Ata Pō and their respective practices.

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