GREAT ART EXHIBITION

 

ZARAHN TŪWHARETOA SOUTHON

Exhibition Opening 25 November 5-7pm

Exhibition On Display 25 November - 15 December

Next Tuesday 25 November 2025, Zarahn Tūwharetoa Southon's exhibition Hītori opens in Jonathan Grant Gallery.  Inspired by his Māori, Samoan, and European heritage, this still-life series reimagines traditional vanitas and memento mori themes within an Aotearoa context. What began during the 2022 lockdown as a diorama of the 1869 Battle of Te Pōrere, evolved into paintings where Māori resistance fighters, constabulary soldiers, and chiefs emerge among Dutch-inspired arrangements of food, tableware, and symbolic objects. These works reflect on history’s cycles and our place within them — a reminder that by understanding whakapapa and the past, we can shape new creative forms for the future. Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Auckland | Tel: +64 9 308 9125  info@jgg.co.nz | www.jgg.co.nz https://jgg.co.nz/exhibitions/42-zarahn-tuwharetoa-southon-hitori/