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Ashleigh Taupaki has graduated with her Masters in Fine Arts which is proving a natural and creative fit with her role as policy analyst at the Ministry of Environment. <img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2106/f1af1c4fc92914893622.jpeg' .
The group plan is simple: for a specific period, members contribute an agreed amount each year to a fund for buying significant pieces of art. A buying committee, chosen from the members, makes the purchases. Coming to the end of its five-year run, Hume’s most recent group is one of the smallest she has been in, with 10 members. They each contribute $500 a year to the buying kitty.
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The Art Buying Group visits New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewser gallery. Left to right: Judith Lawson, Rosanne Keys, Sarah Hillman, Sue Hornblow, Sarah Kennedy, Julie Mason, Anne Marie O’Connor, Rosemary Hume, Jacqui Wrathall, Louise Ward.
Arihia Latham explores future visions that look back to stories of the past. The whakataukī ‘Titiro whakamuri, kōkiri whakamua: look back and reflect so we can move forward’ is an anthem for this time in our lives. A time when we are imagining a future where we are asked to stay home and utilise what we already have. After lockdown last year I threw a party themed ‘Utopian Future’. We all needed to dream a good dream. As we were knocked back to levels 2 and 3 this week there’s some medicine from the What if the City Was a Theatre? programme and Urban Dream Brokerage, a major group show Prophetic Visions in a vacant space. Utopian dreamer Dilohana Lekamge has pulled an impressive artist crew together to share their prophetic visions: Bepen Bhana, Ayesha Green, Sione Monu, Kahurangiariki Smith, Ashleigh Taupaki, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, Christopher Ulutupu, Aliyah Winter, Dilwin Santos and Rafael/a Luna-Pizano.