"The Journey Home - New Works by Sandy Rodgers

"The Journey Home - New Works by Sandy Rodgers
Exhibition runs December 20th, 2011 - January 2012, at ZeaYou Gallery, Cnr Heuheu & Ruapehu Streets, Taupo. Free Entry

This new body of work by Aotearoa artist Sandy Rodgers includes images of the different forms of transport that allow us to return to our place of origin. The images leave the viewer with a sense of familiarity, of recognition and understanding. All of the various forms of transport represented in the paintings have been taken from New Zealand's past.

From the bus ride home after school, to the taxi ride home after a night out partying. From the long haul flight back to New Zealand to a ferry ride across the Cook Strait. The journey home can be the drive from work to your place of residence at the end of a long day. You arrive home, sit down and relax for a while. It's the place where you lay your head down and shut your eyes in the knowledge that you are safe and secure. For some people the journey home is returning to their tribal district and experiencing that feeling of 'turangawaewae' (the sense of belonging). For others it's the journey that we all must make when life comes to a close.

These new works represent a ride back through time, arriving back in the place that you belong, this place of solace."

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