As we commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April and reflect on the unremitting presence of conflict, we exhibit this memorable work by Ralph Hotere, which is accompanied by 9 artists, each of whom is responding personally to the travesty captured so powerfully in Song of Solomon
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Song of Solomon by Ralph Hotere(1991)
Ralph Hotere, with wife, poet Cilla McQueen created his last protest work, ‘Song of Solomon’ during the Gulf War in 1991. This 14-panel piece, ‘an indictment of conflict and a hymn to redemption’ sits alongside Nigel Brown’s 2024 visually powerful condemnatory piece, Gaza. Other artists in an exhibition that confronts the biggest world issue of violent world conflict, include internationally exhibited sculptor and ceramicist, Helen Pollock, painter Tony Johnston whose 20m mural was recently shown in a Devonport pop-up, organised by Satellite2, documenting the travesty of abuse toward the prophet Rua Kenana and interdisciplinary artist, Hye Rim Lee whose work reflects the biblical dimension of ‘Song of Solomon’, in which hope is embedded.
Ralph Hotere, with wife, poet Cilla McQueen created his last protest work, ‘Song of Solomon’ during the Gulf War in 1991. This 14-panel piece, ‘an indictment of conflict and a hymn to redemption’ sits alongside Nigel Brown’s 2024 visually powerful condemnatory piece, Gaza. Other artists in an exhibition that confronts the biggest world issue of violent world conflict, include internationally exhibited sculptor and ceramicist, Helen Pollock, painter Tony Johnston whose 20m mural was recently shown in a Devonport pop-up, organised by Satellite2, documenting the travesty of abuse toward the prophet Rua Kenana and interdisciplinary artist, Hye Rim Lee whose work reflects the biblical dimension of ‘Song of Solomon’, in which hope is embedded.
