TOI TE RITO MAIHI

FEATURED: TOI TE RITO MAIHI
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu

Toi is a noted artist in many different fields of creativity. She is a painter, a printmaker, a writer and an educator but is probably best known for her weaving.

Toi is now in her 80s and throughout her life, she has faced many challenges and had many opportunities. Toi’s philosophy on life is, ‘there is always more than one way…’ and she has always chosen to keep working through adversity and make the most of her opportunities. After one of those opportunities arose, Toi recounts, ‘so began a pattern of invitations and my responding. It has continued to this day.’

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