E-North’s Kauri Festival exhibition “Tears for Tane’s Children” features artworks that record the demise of the New Zealand indigenous forest through the depiction of the New Zealand landscape and the advancement of the civilised world or protest at this continuing destruction. Interestingly the earlier works show lush untouched native bush but by the end of the 19th century the artworks often created in celebration of the advancement of civilisation also show the encroaching pastoralism of the landscape and the shattered native bush left in its wake.

Artists: Liam Barr, Helen Berronsall, Nigel Brown, Andrew Drummond, T. L. Drummond, Joanna Fieldes, Herb Foley, Ian Hamlin, Anahera Kingi, Eric Lee-Johnson, Carol Prentice, Jenny Rendall,, Nelson Thompson, Greer Twiss, W. Reed, Warren Viscoe,

Works courtesy of: Whangarei Art Museum Collection, Viscoe Collection, Thompson Collection, George Street Gallery, Warwick Henderson Gallery; Oedipus R ex Gallery, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, International Art Centre, The Fletcher Trust Collection and individual artists.