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 Tātara e maru ana: Renewing ancestral connections with the sacred rain cape of Waiapu Kōkā Hūhua through the University of Auckland. She contributed extensively to the multi-authored book Hei Taonga Mā Ngā Uri Whakatipu – Treasures for the rising generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 published (November 2021) by Te Papa Press. Recent exhibitions include Tātara e maru ana — The sacred rain cape of Waiapu at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington April – June 2022; Toi Tū, Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery 2020-21. Recent exhibitions include Tātara e maru ana — The sacred rain cape of Waiapu at St Paul St Gallery, AUT Auckland 2021, and Adam Art Gallery, Wellington April – June 2022; Toi Tū, Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery 2020-21; 15th annual Nuit Blanche Toronto 2020; and, To Make /Wrong/ Right/ Now Honolulu Biennial 2019.
Te Ara i Whiti
Whakawhitirā! Ka titiro ki uta ra ki Hikurangi Maunga, 2023
Whakawhitirā! Ka titiro ki uta ra ki Hikurangi Maunga is a photo of Hikurangi and Aorangi maunga, with Waiapu River foregrounded. It was taken just as the first rays of sunlight touched the snow-topped peak of Hikurangi
You can find “Whakawhitirā! Ka titiro ki uta ra ki Hikurangi Maunga” at Te Ara i whiti from September 29 – October 8, 2023 at Kelvin and Marina Park.
