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First Contact Study (2003 - current)

    • Tupaia’s Chart / Tupaia’s and Parkinson’s Paintbox / Diptych

    • Medium:

      Acrylic on Canvas

    • Dimensions (mm):

      height.400 x length.960

    • Presentation:

      Conservation Box Framed

    • Status:

      Original

    • Year:

      2004

    • Cooks Tanslator

    • Medium:

      Acrylic on Tin Plate

    • Dimensions (mm):

      height.90 x length.485

    • Presentation:

      Conservation Box Framed

    • Status:

      Original

    • Year:

      2004

    • A Good Read on Humanity

    • Medium:

      Acrylic on Tin Plate

    • Dimensions (mm):

      height.90 x length.485

    • Presentation:

      Conservation Box Framed

    • Status:

      Original

    • Year:

      2004

First Contact gives a 21st century view of 18th century Pacific history.  The exhibition brings together Tuffery’s recent paintings, drawings, bronze sculpture and his iconic life sized Povi (bulls) also included is his latest project – a time based media installation rendering Tuffery’s images and archival footage of material from Cooks voyages to the Pacific.

Excerpt by Helen Kedgely, Curator, Pataka Museum and Art Gallery, Porirua, New Zealand