Synonym City
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The week-long solo exhibition Synonym City featured early work by Heidi Brickell (Te Hika o Papauma, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Ngāi Tara, Rongomaiwahine), a practitioner who would go on to become a successful and established figure in Aotearoa visual art.
Brickell’s work in this show featured large-scale paintings and intricate sculptural pieces that explored themes related to history, experience and representation. One painting referenced Queen Victoria and the mechanisms behind colonisation—foreshadowing the artist's later exploration of Indigenous knowledge, cultural identity and contemporary Māori narrative, for which she has become well known.
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