Talia Smith – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2024
Talia Smith Samoan, Cook Island About the Artist Talia Smith is an artist and curator from Taranaki Aotearoa and is now based in Sydney, Australia. She is of Cook Island, Samoan and Pakeha heritage. Her photographic and moving image practice explores notions of time, memory, familial histories and the ties that bind. She has […]
Maia Keane – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Maia Keane Ngaī Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata Maia is a contemporary Māori artist born and raised in West Auckland, with iwi affiliations to Ngaī Tāmanuhiri and Rongowhakaata. Her mediums are acrylic paint, graphic design, and recently learning the traditional art of mahi raranga; but she refers to herself as a certified haututu. Maia uses her work to […]
Ngaire Tuhua – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Ngaire Tuhua Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Whātua Ko te Hoe o Tainui te pou ki mua Ko Mangawara te pou ki tua Ko Hapuakohe te pou ki uta Ko Waitii te tatau o te whare Uru tomo mai ki te papatipu o te urutapu, ki te papatipu o te uruora! Specialising in high-quality contemporary Māori art and […]
Natalie Robertson – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Natalie Robertson Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh With a focus on cultural and environmental relationships, Natalie creates photographs and moving images that explore Mātauranga Māori through a whakapapa lens. Natalie is a photographer, moving image artist, writer and Associate Professor at AUT University, Auckland, Aotearoa. In 2022, Natalie graduated with a PhD for her doctoral thesis […]
Melaine Tangaere Baldwin – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Melaine Tangaere Baldwin Ngāti Porou Melanie Tangaere Baldwin is a multi disciplinary artist, arts educator, curator, director of HOEA! Gallery in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa and has curated Te Ara i Whiti since 2021. As an artist her work has been research based and largely focused on Te Ao Māori, Mana Wāhine, stereotyping of indigenous peoples and the […]
Jamie Berry- Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Jamie Berry Te Aitanga–a–Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Ruanui Jamie is a Multidisciplinary Artist who creates work that examines Aotearoa histories while reflecting on her identity and place within the current timeline. Originally from Tūranganui-a-kiwa and residing in Te Whanganui a tara. Jamie’s practice is based on her whakapapa, past, present and future focused. […]
Erena Koopu – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Erena Koopu Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Awa Kapa Haka: the good, the bad, and the ugly – and all it entails has shaped the person I am today. The focus, discipline, relationships, connections, work ethic, and the commitment – are all aspects I carry into my everyday life. Kapa Haka is far more than […]
Lissy & Rudi – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Lissy & Rudi Robinson-Cole Lissy: Ngāti Hineamaru, Ngāti Kahu | Rudi: Waikato, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāruahine, Te Arawa LISSY ROBINSON-COLE and RUDI ROBINSON-COLE are a husband-and-wife team whose artworks explore mātauranga Māori and personal whakapapa through crocheted woollen sculpture, and neon lights. To date the artists’ largest and most ambitious project has been ‘Wharenui Harikoa’ (House […]
Amio Renati – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Amio Renati Ngāti whakaue, Tūhourangi, Tapuika, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti kurī Amio is an interdisciplinary artist with a primary focus on photography. To contextualize their photographic practice, they situate their work in contrast to the history of European photographers and painters whose portraits have been regarded around the world as authentic Māori representation. They do this […]
Sarah Hudson – Te Ara i Whiti Artist 2023
Sarah Hudson Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko Sarah Hudson is a Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko artist, researcher and mum from Whakatāne, Aotearoa. As a founding member of Kauae Raro Research Collective, Sarah has spent the last three years promoting and protecting Māori earth pigment paint-making practices. She splits her time between home-educating […]
