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We Three Go South

Artist May Trubuhovich’s new work We Three Go South was inspired by the story of three sisters and their journey around Aotearoa’s Subantarctic Islands on SS Hinemoa in 1890. One sister—Ethel Richardson—kept a diary of their antics.

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