Erua

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Title

Erua

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Erua tells the story of an intriguing friendship between artist Toss Woollaston (Grant Tilly) and a young Māori boy Erua (Turei Reedy) who modelled for him each Wednesday evening in Greymouth, in the early 60s. Woollaston had seen the boy playing "like one dark bead shaken in a tray of pale ones". The image made him curious to find what Erua was like, and to try to draw "that". Tilly won a 1989 NZ Film and Television Award for his performance; he argued that it was "an awesome responsibility"...

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Video

Date created

1988

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/erua-1988

Related subjects

maori / toss woollaston / woollaston / art / model / painting / greymouth / cezanne / shakespeare

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