8 — 26 October 2022
Photography Gallery
This exhibition is part of Auckland Heritage Festival 2022
This photography exhibition reveals the interior of Pah Homestead prior to its major refurbishment in 2006, alongside images taken again in 2022. Pah Homestead was originally built between 1877 and 1879 and was the largest house in the Auckland province at the time. The Homestead itself remains largely as it was built, with almost all of its original door and window joinery, elaborate ceiling roses, parquet floors and marble fireplaces intact. At various times it has served as an orphanage, novitiate house, boarding school, emergency housing - and currently as an art gallery.
“My first outlook into the world, mid 1940’s, was from the then family home in Mount Albert Road. From there I could see two substantial buildings. To the Southeast the Korma Mills Factory building in Pah Road, later known as Holeproof. To the Southwest was the Pah Homestead, a view now obscured by trees. My mother told me the homestead was a monastery occupied by monks. While this was a little removed from the reality it resulted in the homestead becoming somewhat of an enigma to me and I went through my childhood imagining the large building was occupied by a group of Friar Tucks. My first visit wasn’t until 2006 immediately before the building was refurbished. The first set of photographs were taken at that time. The second set was photographed early in 2022.”
-Rex Oddy
This event is part of Auckland Heritage Festival 2022