Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa) was born in Mitimiti, Northland in 1931. He attended Auckland Teachers' Training College, moving to Dunedin in 1952 to study at the Dunedin School of Art. In the late 1950s Hotere worked as an arts advisor for the Education Department in the Bay of Islands. In 1961 he gained a New Zealand Art Societies Fellowship and traveled to England where he studied at the Central School of Art and Design, London. From 1962 he studied in France and traveled through Europe, returning to New Zealand in 1965. In 1969 Hotere was in Dunedin to take up the Frances Hodgkins fellowship. It was here that he met poets Bill Manhire and Cilla McQueen. McQueen and Hotere were married from 1974 to 1986, she...