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STAR GOSSAGE’S PIKI TE ORA

THERE IS RAWNESS TO STARGossage’s work, both in the unblinking gaze of the figures as well as the expressive application of paint – thin layers of colours as if consumed in a passing moment or feeling, not restricted by a premeditated idea.

Maori artist Star Gossage lives and works within her ancestral land, the coastal landscape of Pakiri,

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