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June Northcroft Grant
Kia Tupato Mokopuna (Be Vigilant Granddaughter), acrylic on canvas, Maori art

2007

$6,500
£4,942.96
€5,701.47
CA$9,105.31
A$10,190.64
CHF 5,321.11
MX$124,326.42
NOK 67,544.45
SEK 64,095.53
DKK 42,575.87
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This painting is about the protectors I envisage for my Mokopuna (Granddaughter) Kimiora. The owl or morepork is a guardian for my family and the owl is depicted by the “Ruru” in a carved form, above her head. The petroglyphs talk of an ancient past and from where we all descend, and the tukutuku (woven panel) is depicted as a band of protection around her as she journeys through the hazards of her teenage years. I use gold paint in recent paintings to make them iconographic in a literal sense, in that if gold has a value and a worth, all my ancestors would be depicted as valued, iconic, powerful ancestors, and if the symbolism can be ready by all cultures and creeds the understanding is implicit.

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