Lindah Lepou – Exhibiting Artist 2024
Lindah Lepou Samoa (1983) About the Artist New Zealand born, Samoan raised, fa’afafine. No running water. No electricity. No support Unqualified. Uncertified. Unbelievable. Exhibition PAPER Series by Lindah Lepou is a one-off moment, never to be repeated. This Exhibition will be open to the public from October 6 – October 13, […]
Melanie Tangaere Baldwin – Te Ara i Whiti Artist & Guest Curator 2024
Melanie Tangaere Baldwin Ngāti Porou, Rongomaiwahine About the Artist I am a māma, artist and curator based in Te Tairāwhiti. As an artist I am currently interested in the freedom and magic of creating our own stories based on fantasy and nostalgia and extending pūrakau as a means of contributing to a more hopeful […]
Etanah Lalau-Talapa – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Etanah Lalau-Talapa Afega & Sa’anapu, Samoa About the Artist Etanah Lalau Talapa (b. 1995, Te Awakairangi-ki-Tai (Lower Hutt), Te Whanganui-a-Tara, (Wellington) is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator with Afega and Sa’anapu heritage from Samoa. She studied for her Bachelor of Design in Spatial Design at the College of Creative Arts Massey University. Her creative […]
Ngaroma Riley- Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Ngaroma Riley Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Pākehā About the Artist Ngaroma Riley (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Pākehā) is an artist and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Ngaroma began her carving journey making buddhist statues while living and working in Japan. Since returning to Aotearoa in 2020 she has completed a Certificate in Whakairo […]
Sione Monu – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Sione Monu Tonga About the Artist Sione Tuivailala Monū is an artist of the Tongan diaspora. Born in Auckland they work across the mediums of photography, moving-image, fashion and adornment, performance and drawing exploring identity, family and pasifika queer experience in the diaspora. Te Ara i Whiti Eye Spy with My Little Eyes, 2024 I […]
Erena Koopu – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Erena Koopu Ngāti Awa, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui About the Artist I was born green eyed with blonde hair, and never thought my appearance really matched the language that I spoke or the way I felt. I’m a product of Reo Māori movements and became part of the revival of a language and the strengthening of […]
Ngaumutane Jones – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Ngaumutane Jones Ngāti Kahungunu, Kai Tahu, Tainui, Tūhoe About the Artist Traversing the realms of te taiao (natural world), te ao māori (māori world), sci-fi and anime. Ngaumutane Jones a.k.a Umu Creative is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ōpōtiki/Te Whakatōhea. Deeply involved in visual storytelling, Ngaumutane explores technology as a tool for discovering innovative […]
Renee McDonald – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Renee McDonald Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu About the Artist Renee McDonald is a rising Māori artist with proud roots in Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu. Though born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Renee has always felt the deep call of her Tūrangawaewae, drawing her back to Aotearoa to immerse herself in the rich traditions […]
Jade Townsend – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Jade Townsend Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungunu About the Artist Jade Townsend (Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a visual artist working at the intersection of her Māori, Pākehā and British heritage. She describes it as a “non-fixed scene of cultural multiplicities that ebb and flow between contradicting priorities. My wairua connects […]
Rihari Campbell-Collier – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Rihari Campbell-Collier Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Te Whakatōhea, Ngai Tai, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui About the Artist Rihari Campbell-Collier is a contemporary Māori artist of Te Aitanga-ā-Māhaki, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāi Tai, and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui descent. His practice embraces the importance of indigenous narratives in this modern age. Rihari’s paintings pay tribute to ancestral stories and the turbulent colonial […]
