Titirangi
Bush-clad hillside village of kauri forest and harbour views, once home to a country's most celebrated painter.
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This guide to Titirangi in Auckland follows Colin McCahon, who moved his family into the bush here in May 1953 with almost no money and took a job mopping floors at the Auckland City Art Gallery. It traces his slow climb from cleaner toward the gallery's own staff while he kept painting kauri, harbour light and sky in the evenings at a house near French Bay. Listen for how long that ordinary job actually lasted.
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