On campus exhibition: History Unravelling
William Dunning
John Bevan Ford
Marian Maguire
Shona Rapira-Davies
Barbara Tuck
Selected works from Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection
17 August – 03 November 2025

Installation view, History Unravelling, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2025. Photo: Ted Whitaker.

Barbara Tuck, Ngā Uruora, 2022, oil on board, Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2023.

John Bevan Ford (b. 1930, d. 2005, Ngāti Raukawa), Te Awhi Ki Ruahine, 1988, coloured pen and ink with incising on paper. Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 1988.

Marian Maguire, Herakles dreams of Arcadia, plate 7 from 'The Labours of Herakles', 2007, colour lithograph, Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2010.

Marian Maguire, Athena is dismayed at the lack of progress Herakles has made towards Arcadia, plate 10 from 'The Labours of Herakles', 2007, colour lithograph, Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2010.

Shona Rapira-Davies (Ngāti Wai),Ka pinea koe e ahau. Ki te pine o te aroha. Ki te pine e kore nei. E waikura e. A lament. 2011, oil on board, Ngā Puhipuhio Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased2011.

William Dunning, Back to back, Edward Wakefield/Māori couple, 1850, 1994, charcoal & acrylic wash on paper, Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 1994.

William Dunning, Māori population hits bottom figure of 42,113; 1886, 1994, charcoal & acrylic wash on paper, Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 1994.

Installation view, History Unravelling, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2025. Photo: Ted Whitaker.