Home Kill

Tia Ranginui

Laree Payne Gallery
286 Victoria Street, Kirikiriroa (Hamilton)

10 - 27 September 2025

Opening Friday 12 September, 5 - 7PM

A cogitation on the gentrification of Castlecliff in Whanganui (a community that Ranginui has been a part of throughout her life), Ranginui's newest body of work carries the title Home Kill; a term which originates here, in Aotearoa, and speaks to the practice of slaughtering farmed animals for personal consumption. Of course it also alludes to the killing of a home, and as described by Aidan Ritchie in his supporting text, refers specifically to the unique, diverse, rugged and creative community that can be found in Castlecliff.

Comprising six works (five recent, one earlier), Home Kill reveals flux, discomfort, sorrow, and beauty whilst giving way to a sense of change, loss, and longing. Characteristically actuated through the use of props, this time in the form of taxidermied animals, Ranginui's Home Kill is distinctively her own whilst also recalling gothic and elemental works by the likes of Peter Peryer and Theo Schoon. 

Of and centered around the goings-on of a particular place, Home Kill speaks (simultaneously and in an uncanny manner) to many, much larger and more pervasive global issues which for many, feel inescapably close at present.