Maori artist at Expo

Press, 13 March 1986, Page 4

Maori artist at Expo

Wellington PA Dunedin Maori artist, Ralph Hotere, will represent nine exhibiting contemporary New Zealand artists at New York’s Art Expo in April.

The exhibition will display 45 works for sale to gallery owners and dealers from round the world, a statement from New Zealand Gallery Editions said.

Others represented are Stanley Palmer and Claudia Pond Eyley, both of Auckland, Wellington’s John Drawbridge, Christchurch’s Barry Cleavin, Graeme Stradling of Nelson and Jeffery Harris and Marilynn Webb of Dunedin. Robin White, now living in Kiribati, is the ninth exhibitor. Hotere will be in atten-

dence daily at a booth throughout the exhibition — described as the world’s biggest “art trade” showing. The show will also be open to the New York public for three days.

New Zealand’s participation, the first, is being organised and financed by a Christchurch-based firm, Peter Small, Ltd, whose chairman, Sir Ronald Scott, will attend the exhibition with the companies senior management. Management of Art Expo New York have advised that interest in the New Zealand content is likely to be high, in part the result of the interest in the country stimulated by the successful Te Maori exhibition.