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Seven stars of Matariki PREVIOUS PAGE, LEFT: Ngahuia Harrison, Waterfall / Smoke, 2013, 08:07 HD video.
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Ngahuia Harrison (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi) is a PhD student at Auckland University of Technology. Working mainly in film and photography, she explores how Ngātiwai concepts and philosophies relating to the environment and the transference of mātauranga (knowledge) can be applied to creative practice. Harrison’s most recent project engages with the Treaty settlement process, the issues that arise from different understandings of history and whakapapa, and the role of kaumātua and kuia in negotiations. Her exhibition seeks to create a space for contemplation in the face of urgency. It takes its title from a patere (chant) recited by Harrison’s tupuna at the Māori Land Court: E takarae ki te muri i raro mata raranga mai kaewa ki te rangi ko au ki raro whakaaro rangi ai (I stumble on ahead, my face turns skyward; although I am below my thoughts are floating through the sky), St Paul Street Gallery, 13 April – 26 May. stpaulst.aut.ac.nz/exhibitions/future-exhibitions
PREVIOUS PAGE, RIGHT: #Hui (2015), Untitled Society Art Gallery, EPCOR Centre, +15 window spaces, 2015, Calgary, Canada.
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Cora-Allan Wickliffe (Ngāpuhi, Tainui) is a multi-disciplinary artist. Often working through performance, her practice explores constructed identities and colonial misrepresentations of Māori and Pacific people. Wickliffe and her partner Daniel Twiss recently founded BC Art Collective (‘Before Cook’, ‘Before Columbus’, ‘Before Christianity’) to provide new opportunities to engage with indigenous culture. Twiss is Native American and an inaugural event Indian Tacos was held earlier this year, with Wickliffe and Twiss serving up indigenous American cuisine and conversation. Be back in 5 minutes (2016) was exhibited at The Blak Dot Gallery in Melbourne in the exhibition Fifty Shades of Blak. The series of paintings,which reference tourist statues featuring the indigenous body, was particularly influenced by the Napier statue Pania of the Reef. Wickliffe is Curator and Exhibitions Manager of Corban Estate Arts Centre and will be exhibiting at Blue Oyster Gallery in August. cora-allan.co.nz