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 Kaleidoscope - Cilla McQueen
 Kaleidoscope – Attitudes Towards Landscape
 Intent to Construct
 Getting to Our Place
 The Big Art Trip - Series One, Episode One
 Kete Aronui - Fiona Pardington

Synopsis

In the late 80s the creation of a new public park in central Wellington became an act of cross-cultural collaboration, and an infamous battlezone between artist, council and naysayers. Following positive feedback over her design, council staff decided that redevelopment of Pigeon Park (an old pa site) would be led by Māori artist Shona Rapira Davies. This doco follows the passionate, stroppy Rapira Davies, as she fights cost overruns, landscape architects and passersby, and for her vision (which involved handcrafting Te Aro park's 20,000+ ceramic tiles).

Credits (9)

 Pamela Meekings-Stewart

Pamela Meekings-Stewart
Director, Producer

 Owen Ferrier-Kerr

Owen Ferrier-Kerr
Editor

 Cheryl Cameron

Cheryl Cameron
Associate Producer, Associate Director

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Pamela Meekings-Stewart

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Quotes

If you people don’t come up with the money, and before the end of the month, we might as well call it quits as far as I’m concerned. 

– Shona Rapira Davies, during negotiations with Wellington City Council

[If] in the act of seeing something, seeing an artwork, you are moved, from here to there — [if you] take a leap in your own imagination, in your own self — then I’ve done my job.  

– Shona Rapira Davies

Awards

1993 TV Guide Television Awards
Best Soundtrack and/or Original Music: Jonathan Besser