Rangi Kipa
RĀ TUARUA | 11.00AM
MANAWA PAOPAO | TE MAHI HOAHOA WHARE
A showcase of dynamic projects developed with leading architects, artists and designers in partnership with hapū that tell stories and support communities in Aotearoa.
With Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts, Rau Hoskins, Rangi Kipa, Lynne Te Aika, Deborah Tikao & Phil Wihongi.
Ka whiti ake ki te tihi o Taranaki Maunga, ka piri ōna kāhui ki taku whatu
Ko Taranaki te papawhenua e hora nei, Kaore e pau, he ika unahi nui
Ka rere whakaiho i nga pīnakitanga o te koroheke Mounga, pērā te huka, pērā te wai
Ka tu ki tātahi, kei ngā kongutungutu tini, Aa, he ara ki uta, he ara ki tai
Ka whati mai rā ngā tūātea o hawaiki areare, i ūtanga mai ko Tokomaru rātou ko Kurahaupo me Aotea e ngunguru nei
Kei Te Rewarewa taku tūwatawata e whakatangi tonu i nga pukaea, kia whakaraara te Iwi, kokiri atu, kokiri mai.
Rangi Kipa (Skipper) is an accomplished artist who began his career as a carver, graduating from the Maraeroa Carving School, Porirua. He was the recipient of Creative New Zealand Object/Art Fellowship in 2006, awarded Te Waka Toi 2004 inaugural Artist in Residence in August 2021, and is a recipient of The NZ Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Award 2021.
Customarily trained, Kipa has spearheaded and participated in the revival of the contemporary expressions of taonga puoro, ta moko, whakairo, adornment art and waka. His primary focus is to elevate and accelerate the exploration of ‘the contested space’ between the Indigenous reality and the Colonial project and experience.
He has exhibited and features in major collections throughout the world including New Zealand, Canada and the United States. He was selected to show in ‘StarPower’, in October 2007, as part of an exhibition that opened the New Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and had his first international solo show at Goff & Rosenthal Dealer Gallery in New York.
Kipa is a director of Tihei Ltd and lectures on contemporary Maori art and design practice at Massey University in Wellington and Palmerston North, Witt and Te Whare Wānanga o Aotearoa in Whakatane.
No nga purapura.
No nga purapura whetuu o Te Rangi-nui-aatea ki a Papa-tu-aa-nuku, noo te kaahui maunga i heke mai ai ahau, Heoti, noo uki, noo naianei, noo nga rangi e hekemai nei hoki, tenei pihipihinga kaakano i ruruia mai i Rangiaatea
ARTIST STATEMENT
I like to continuously push my own boundaries and challenge the status quo, adopting the philosophy that artistic expression, artistic practice should reflect the realities of life. This means that I use all manner of materials as media for my artistic expression from natural organic resources to composite new age compounds.
My art seeks to navigate new journeys, as I am interested in transcending the boundedness of tribal-only paradigms to extend beyond the accepted Māori social and cultural nexus.
