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Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) responds to work in Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills with an ahurumowai of cello, poetry and taonga pūoro.Ruby Solly is a Kāi Tahu musician, taonga pūoro practitioner, music therapist and writer living in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington. She has played with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Whirimako Black, Trinity Roots and The New Zealand String Quartet as both a cellist, and a player of traditional Māori instruments (ngā taonga pūoro). She has also worked as a session musician and recording artist with groups such as So Laid Back Country China, Jhan Lindsay, Strowlini Orchestra, and many other artists around Wellington.
The exhibition Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills is on display until 13 October. Across five decades, Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM) dedicated herself to making art concerned with the relationships between land, sky and water. Extending from Te Tai Tokerau Northland, to the home she made in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Webb spent her lifetime tracing the potential of the horizon and finding strength in the embrace of the hills. This is the legacy that she leaves to the next generation: the power of connection between tangata and whenua, people and land.
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Ruby Solly. Photo: Ebony Lamb
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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Worcester Boulevard,Christchurch, New Zealand