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“Parihaka for me it is not so much a place on a geographical map as a place in the heart and mind. My vision is of the mountain in the village and the village in the mountain, not side-by-side, but inextricably bound together by shared mana.”
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Did You Ask That Mountain 40 x 50 cm SOLD
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Did You Ask That Mountain 40 x 50 cm Top, in banner. SOLD Clarity 50 x 76 cm Left SOLD from Percy Thomson Gallery Shop Whare Kura/Red House 40 x 50 cm SOLD |
Resistance 74 x 34 cm framed SOLD.
Maelstrom 46 x 46 cm right |
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The Mountain and The Village 76 x 76 cm and Threats 76 x 76 cm SOLD
'Threats' was selected by Bill Milbank for the Hawkes Bay Art Review at Creative Arts Napier 2019,
along with 'Aotearoa Waits' and 'It Rains Here' 2019 New work
'Threats' was selected by Bill Milbank for the Hawkes Bay Art Review at Creative Arts Napier 2019,
along with 'Aotearoa Waits' and 'It Rains Here' 2019 New work
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Sentinel
50 x 76 cm From June 2019 at Percy Thomson Gallery shop Now at studio, 2022. |
Elemental l 46 x 46 cm SOLD lower left
Elemental ll upper left 46 x 46 cm
These two paintings are currently on hold 09 July 2020
Elemental ll upper left 46 x 46 cm
These two paintings are currently on hold 09 July 2020
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Peace 76 x 76 cm left
Standing Ground 76 x 76 cm
Standing Ground 76 x 76 cm
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Kina Gallery is pleased to host Napier based artist Karen Sole, with her solo exhibition | Land | Village | Fences |. Karen has been painting consistently for four years. In that time she has exhibited at galleries and exhibition spaces in Napier and Havelock North, and more recently at Kina NZ Design + Art Space. Early works were highly graphical, conceived of as 2D totems: their spirit and substance drawn from deep feeling about land, culture and humanity. Subsequent work explored the diaspora of people out of Africa and the Middle East, climate change, and the feeling of places that have “stuck to my bones”. The fuel for her work ranges from joyful rage to pure and passionate delight in nature and her interaction with it. Her work is passionate and bold. The series | Land | Village | Fences | is an exploration of Parihaka, as a powerful place in time and a series of pivotal historic events that continue to stir the collective psyche in Taranaki and Aotearoa-New Zealand. Symbolic colours and shapes tell the story of peaceful beginnings, resistance, and then desecration and finally a dream of clarity. The mountain, sentinel, keeper of secrets, place of mana and meaning is pervasive, as is the village or sometimes a single whare: shelter, gathering place, and a place to stand/turangawaewae. Karen Sole grew up in South Taranaki, in the shadow of our mountain, but heard nothing and suspected nothing of this critical part of our history until she read Dick Scott’s enlightening Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka. This series is partly an act of homage to him, and oku tipuna (ancestors) who were and are there, as well as an expression of her rage, wonder, and hope. It all flowed from heart to hand in symbolic shapes and colours. “Parihaka for me it is not so much a place on a geographical map as a place in the heart and mind. My vision is of the mountain in the village and the village in the mountain, not side-by-side, but inextricably bound together by shared mana.” The gallery will host an opening on Friday 18th January from 5-7 PM all welcome The Gathering Storm 76 x 76 cm |
Adversity
76 x 50 cm From June 2019 at Percy Thomson Gallery shop 
Time Will Tell
76 x 76 cm SOLD 
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Fences 102 x 102 cm SOLD
Did You Ask That Mountain 40 x 50 cm SOLD