Ralph Hotere

Ralph Hotere was an artist of international repute with a career spanning more than five decades. But he was also a resident of a particular location, Port Chalmers. This week Bruce Munro talked to some of those who knew him as ''just Ralph''.

Glasses of whisky were raised as Ralph Hotere ONZ passed his favourite Careys Bay Hotel for the last time yesterday morning.

Ralph Hotere's funeral cortege leaves Port Chalmers.

The community Ralph Hotere fell in love with and in which made his home will have a chance to farewell the artist before his Requiem Mass this morning.

Family friends and the arts community are saluting the achievements of Ralph Hotere ONZ after he died in Dunedin yesterday.

Ralph Hotere, one of New Zealand's most acclaimed and provocative artists, has died.

In a moving ceremony which combined formality and family, Dunedin artist Ralph Hotere was yesterday invested with this country's highest honour, the Order of New Zealand.

The exhibition "Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity" opened at the Hocken Collections on Friday night, celebrating the artist's 80th birthday.

The man many consider New Zealand's greatest living artist will mark his 80th birthday in Dunedin next month.

The home of Careys Bay artist Ralph Hotere is being offered for sale by tender.