‘A Vocabulary’ exhibition — Artist’s talk with Bruce Connew

Sat Aug 16 2025 at 12:00 am to 01:00 am UTC+12:00

Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand 6011 | Wellington

National Library of New Zealand
Publisher/HostNational Library of New Zealand
\u2018A Vocabulary\u2019 exhibition \u2014 Artist\u2019s talk with Bruce Connew
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Join artist and photographer Bruce Connew in a tour of his exhibition ‘A Vocabulary’, which features photographs of memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars.
A vocabulary of colonisation
The exhibition, A Vocabulary, is a narrative selection of photographs by artist Bruce Connew. He spent several years “roaming among” the memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars, seeking out and photographing the texts on these testaments.
Join Bruce Connew for this artist’s talk where he will discuss the genesis of the exhibition and its relevance in 2025.
About the speaker
Bruce Connew is an artist and photographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Image: Heke’s Pah, photo by Bruce Connew, 2018. Used by permission.
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