Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
RĀ TUATAHI | 12.00PM
MANAWA TOUTOU | KŌRERO TUWHERA
Ka mua, ka muri – past informs the future.
Kura Te Waru-Rewiti & Nigel Borell.
Whakapapa is our legacy.
Mahi toi is the visual expression of that legacy.
Mahi-a-ringa manifest our visual legacy and the diversity of whakapapa as we move into the future.
IWI: Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Raukawa
HAPŪ: Ngāti Pakahi, Ngātirangi, Ngāti Kauwhata
Kura is a contemporary Māori artist, art educator and academic and is currently the Associate Professor of Māori Visual Arts at Massey University.
She has exhibited widely and her paintings, which often explore mana wahine, are represented in numerous public and private exhibitions both within New Zealand and around the world.
Kura’s paintings are held in prestigious collections such as Wellington’s Te Papa Museum, Auckland Art Gallery, Waikato Museum of Art & History, Dunedin Art Gallery, The University of Auckland and the National Art Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
She was previously a member of Te Waka Toi and in 2019 she received the Te Tohu o Te Papa Rongomaraeroa Award for excellence and outstanding contribution to Nga Toi Māori.
