Brett Graham

"…a statement of the conceptual realisation of the metaphysical fibre that is an inheritance of the voices of the past. It is sustained in its reductionist vocabulary as an imprint of the abstract potential that was realised in nga taonga tuku iho o Tainui (the treasures of the Tainui people in the Waikato region)."

In Kowhatu Karohirohi, Brett Graham recreates the sacred stone and the work recalls how pupils of the ancient whare wananga placed stones in their mouths to act as memory aids when learning chants or whakapapa…