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Michael Parekowhai The English Channel, 2015 stainless steel, 257 x 166 x 158 cm.

25 March 2017

9:00 AM

25 March 2017

9:00 AM

Australians have a proprietorial interest in Captain James Cook but of course he belongs to the whole world. That is dramatised by a splendid new sculpture featuring Cook recently acquired for the Art Gallery of NSW. Called The English Channel, it is by Michael Parekowhai, a New Zealand artist of Maori and European descent.

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