SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS ARTS
TE TUHI MAREIKURA TRUST
Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust (TMT) is a local Tauranga Moana, Bay of Plenty trust committed and passionate about bringing audiences and artists together to experience and explore unique artistic heritage and art. Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust has brought artists together in the community to create public art works, share their cultural arts with international communities and most recently, Ngā Uri o Muturangi: Wānanga Indigenous & Ngā Uri o Muturangi: Tā Atea.
Established to advance education, Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust encourages and supports excellence in the visual arts and cultural practices amongst visual artists in Aotearoa. We are able to educate our communities by increasing the public’s access, understanding and appreciation of the arts by providing exhibitions of international standard,
We encourage and promote learning opportunities for Aotearoa's visual artists to build on their knowledge and develop their skills through wananga and workshops, and also enable the sharing of indigenous art forms.
WHATS ON NOW
Wānanga Indigenous is a fully-catered marae live-in wānanga education event of sharing between world-wide indigenous artists, and is hosted by the tangata whenua Māori of Tauranga Moana. This provides a unique opportunity for indigenous peoples to explicitly share and workshop in cultural practices, aspirations around tatau traditions, art, dance and music, to share experiences, techniques, tool making, traditions, politics and developments around practice – including ongoing cultural developments, examining our evolving international practice’s in the present and future, and share political and cultural concerns including developments around tatau practices. We invite you to direct us on what you particularly wish to share or facilitate.
Check out our Wānanga Indigenous now for more information.
“So incredibly culturally grounded! And (I) felt a cultural connection with all the indigenous people that attended!”
– Wānanga Indigenous, 2019
COMING UP SOON
Watch this space for upcoming events by Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust.
Want to promote your upcoming event on our site? Email us for more information at tetuhimareikura@hotmail.com
MEET
THE TEAM.
THE TRUST
JULIE PAAMA-PENGELLY
Julie Paama-Pengelly, chairperson of Te Tuhi Māreikura Trust, is a tā moko practitioner, cultural artist, writer and painter with a Masters in Māori Visual Arts and Masters in Development Studies. In the past she has taught art at various tertiary institutions, and headed the Māori Visual Arts School for Awanuiarangi. Julie wrote Māori Art and Design which won a Māori Book Award in 2010. She serves as a consultant on building Art Collections, Māori Arts Education and Development for MOE and the tertiary sector, while operating her own business Art + Body Creative Studio in Mount Maunganui.
Julie describes her core practice and values as "deriving from my passion to create a space for Māori to recover a positive identity and future development through our visual art traditions".
The creation of Tā Ātea, a festival gathering of indigenous body marking practitioners from all over the world to strategise, educate and share a breadth of art traditions is the primary activity of Te Tuhi Māreikura Trust. The goal is to provide opportunities for Maori artists to develop skills, international networks and build audiences.
Instagram: @julesartistmoko
Facebook: @julesartistmoko
www.julesartistmoko.com
LINDA MUNN
Linda Munn has an arts practice which spans 25 plus years which as a young artist became interested in Uku (clay), stone and wood and so began in her early career as a carver and sculptor. Munn has always been fascinated by all art forms and added paint to her practice and so describes herself as a multi faceted artist.
Being part of the Māori Land Movement, the Māori Women’s Refuge and one of the designers who created the Tino Rangatiratanga Māori Flag are definitely key highlights of a career.
Linda is part of an International Indigenous Artists movement and was invited to attend the International Indigenous Artist Gathering in 2017 that was held at the Evergreen College, Seattle and was invited to the International Indigenous Artist Gathering in 2019 held on Turangawaewae Marae. She was also involved with the Indigenous Tatau Wananga 2019 held on Whareroa Marae Tauranga.
The main themes which underpins her work are political and cultural. “There is no line down the middle, being Indigenous is political, whakapapa (genealogy) defends our right to the land of our Tupuna (Ancestors)”
KEREAMA TAEPA
Kereama Taepa has been lecturing in Art & Design for just over 15 years. His current role is at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (Rotorua), and he has been there for the last 10 years. Kereama's main teaching focus is in digital technologies and how creatives can use computer software and hardware to create their work - whether that manifests in works that are physical, virtual, or both.
This is also the focus of his creative practice. Kereama has been creating a lot of work recently that is 3D-printed or experiential within Virtual Reality. He is exploring how these spaces and technologies can be framed within Te Ao Maori so that there may be a deeper affinity, thus opening the door for more Maori to engage with and participate within those spaces. This will be evident in Transmission, Kereama's upcoming solo exhibition at Object Space in Auckland from March through to April 2020.
If you want to see something close to home (Bay of Plenty), he has a work in the MATATOKI : MATA Ā WAKA exhibition currently held at Tauranga Art Gallery.
Instagram: @kereamataepa
Facebook: @kereamataepaartist
www.kereamataepa.co.nz
TRACEY TAWHIAO
"As an Artist my job is to create new worlds and ideas. I work on personal and public projects that are Kaupapa Māori or that I care about. I have law and philosophy degrees and art is the best way I have to be true to myself.
"I support the Trust because I support the aspirations of all Artists to help create richer worlds, communities and homes through Art.
"My role in the trust is to support the artistic aspirations of my Iwi and Rohe. And to create opportunity for more Art to be created for and with the community."
Instagram @TraceyTawhiao
Facebook @TraceyTawhiao
SUPPORT
As well as our Workshop Artists and Education Presenters, Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust is grateful and operates because of our awesome team of volunteers and sponsors who help us to achieve our goals.
Our Sponsors:
Bachelors of Creative Industries
Bay Trust
Colourworks Screen Printers
Creative Bay of Plenty
Te Runanga o Ngaterangi Iwi Trust
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
Special Thanks:
Areena Smith
Chontelle Hohaia
Crystal Baker
Isaac Crowe
Israel Randell
Jera Mae
Joe Houia
Kaiwhetu Kipa
Liam Banbury
Shona Tawhiao
We're interested in building strong withstanding relationships with local Tauranga / Mount Maunganui entities who value creativity, community and development - if your'd ike to align your kaupapa with ours, email us to have a chat, or maybe coffee.
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