Courtesy: the artist and Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland.

Paul Martinson’s exhibition ‘Huia’ tells the story of this taonga (treasure) through the eyes of science and an artistic imagination. Martinson’s faithful representations of Huia are made in reference to rare museum skins and acknowledges the tragic loss to Aotearoa’s dawn chorus. This series of artworks tells the story of the Huia from the perspective of a surrealist mind; reconstructing how this lost species would have appeared, with scientific accuracy and stunning artistic detail.

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