The arresting nature of his artworks was not after all an end in itself, to some extent they were an attention grabbing entry point to his deeply thoughtful philosophy of "Aoteroaland", the relationships between Maori and Pakeha and the land of Aotearoa.
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| Lester Hall Photo: Dean Wright | Northern Advocate |
We have felt a bit of heat over promoting Lester's artworks, the most intense was from descendants of some of his portrait subjects. Our belief is that artworks do cause offence to some people but that just because a group of people are offended is not a reason to withdraw an artwork from sale. New Zealand is a pretty diverse country, the internet makes it possible for us to show artworks to people who have completely different attitudes and beliefs and to only have prints for sale that would not offend anyone's sensibilities would be difficult. We also believe in freedom of speech.
However Lester tells us he is over exploring these themes in his work
"It is certainly not a case of having had enough of the old work but definitely change that has come about due to angst & stress, moving away from the Maori & Pakeha narrative is proving beneficial in a lot of ways but most importantly [to] health and wellbeing."
So we have two announcements to make, one is that the following prints are
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| "Blue Lady", new print from Lester Hall |
Here is the list of prints that won't be re-printed once we sell out, we'll update this post once these images are no longer available. Our understanding is that we have the very last prints of many of these editions at the time of writing (mid November 2017).
- Grant Going
- Royal Tour
- Te Rauparaha
- Mofo
- Boogieman
- Queenie
- Phantom
- Guns & Roses (portrait of Hongi Hika)
- Only the Good Die Young
- Wikitoria
- Tiki Tour
- Cheeky Little Darkie (sold out)
- Kiwiana Tiki (sold out)
- Buzzy Bee Tiki
- Poll Tax
- Barnett Burns
- White Chief (sold out)
- Tiki Mouse (sold out)
- Aroha (Phantom & Diana)
- Bondage
- Ahumai Te Paerata (sold out)
- Wahine (sold out)
- Tui Races Jet
- Piercy Rock
- Hoki Mai: All is Forgiven
- War Dog
- Taniwha takes Wahine
- Jetson's Tiki
- Charlotte Badger
