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Back to EpisodesThe Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
Published 2 years, 3 months ago
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At the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Pōneke hangs an enormous New Zealand flag upon which artist Richard Lewer has painted the words: “To have a future I must reconcile with MY past.”
Lewer’s exhibition What they didn’t teach me at school about the Waikato Wars has been his most difficult project, he tells Culture 101’s Mark Amery.