Kākahi
Kākahi
Peter and Sara McIntyre
New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata
Shed 11, 60 Lady Elizabeth Lane, Wellington
25 February - 16 May 2021
Sara McIntyre, Kākahi Marae, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Miles Gallery.
This collection of works by the eminent painter and war artist Peter McIntyre (1910 - 1995), and his daughter, photographer Sara McIntyre, provides an engaging portrait of the small central North Island village of Kākahi through a unique pairing of their works.
The McIntyre family holidayed at Kākahi from the 1960s. The township featured prominently in Peter McIntyre’s portfolio and he published a book on Kākahi in 1972. Working as a rural nurse in the King Country, Sara McIntyre has used her camera to explore the continuity of rural life in the area and published a book of her observations in mid-2020.
Father and daughter’s paintings and photographs provide an intergenerational snapshot of Kākahi which honours the resonance of its people, marae, village, rivers and landscape.
Peter McIntyre, Maori Children, King Country, 1963. Private collection.