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Aratoi going on 50 years Emily Ireland Art and culture are essential to people’s wellbeing. That’s the philosophy that has driven Aratoi Regional Trust chair Barbara Roydhouse to support the Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History across multiple eras. This year, the museum is celebrating its 50th birthday, and a special exhibition marking this anniversary is opening on Friday night. The exhibition, titled “50/fifty – 50 Years of Aratoi” represents 50 years of collecting. With more than 3000 items to choose from it has been no easy task to put together. The selection reflects the highlights and significant events, as well as the many gifts received, that have helped form the Aratoi collection. From the obvious, such as Taonga Maori and work by icons Colin McCahon, Robin White and Barbara Hepworth,
to the less obvious: moa bones and an 1869 ship’s biscuit with a tale to tell of the visit of a prince, there will be some surprises as items never shown before emerge into the light. Aratoi, formerly known as the Wairarapa Arts Centre, opened on October 11, 1969. The full cost of the arts centre, including furnishings and fittings, was $45,741, which was met by the Arts Hall Trust Fund to which the Masterton Trust Lands Trust (MTLT) had contributed a total of $22,042. MTLT is still a main funder of Aratoi today. Prior to the opening, a group of residents – including John Maunsell of Hansells – purchased the Barbara Hepworth sculpture “Galliard – Forms in Movement” in 1963 at a cost of 475 guineas, for the projected arts centre. This was the first of many actions of community support for the regional cultural
institution. Entering into the 1980s, finances were getting tighter and tighter, according to Roydhouse. She was a committee member of the Wairarapa Arts Centre from 1984-1989 and was president from 1989-1993. Back then, the building was “like a rectangle”, she said. “It was right on the footpath; it wasn’t very wide. “You walked in and there was a foyer, and the office, a little kitchen, and then one gallery. “You could practically stand at the doorway and see everything there was to see.” With an economy in recession, money was tight. “I remember being more worried about how we were going to pay the power bill than almost anything else,” “That’s how tight the money was. Continued on page 4 The Wairarapa Arts Centre. PHOTO/WAIRARPA ARCHIVE
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