Hiria Anderson
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| field = Painting
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Hiria Anderson is a New Zealand artist whose work focuses on Māori culture in the 21st century. In 2018 she was awarded the New Zealand Paint and Printmaking award and her work has been exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery, Te Tuhi and Tim Melville Gallery.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-01|title=Hiria Anderson CV|url=http://www.timmelville.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Hiria-CV-19.pdf|access-date=2021-08-17|website=Tim Melville}}{{Cite web|title=Hiria Anderson|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/11767/hiria-anderson|access-date=2021-08-17|website=Auckland Art Gallery|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Hiria Anderson – Sanderson Contemporary Art. Newmarket, Auckland, NZ|url=https://www.sanderson.co.nz/Artist/287/Hiria-Anderson.aspx|access-date=2021-08-17|website=www.sanderson.co.nz}}
Biography
Anderson was born in 1974 within the King Country, New Zealand.{{Cite book |last=Borell |first=Nigel |title=Toi tū, toi ora : contemporary Māori art |publisher=Penguin Random House New Zealand in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki |year=2022 |isbn=9780143776734 |pages=341}} She grew up at her grandparents home in Ōtorohanga, next to the wharenui her grandfather built when she was born. Her grandfather was a carver and her grandmother was a weaver, they played an influence on Anderson's developing art practice.{{Cite web|date=2017-06-07|title=A Painter on Tūrongo Street – Hiria Anderson|url=https://www.thebigidea.nz/events/214431-a-painter-on-turongo-street-hiria-anderson|access-date=2021-08-16|website=The Big Idea|language=en}} Anderson attended Queen Victoria School, a historic girls' boarding school for Māori in Parnell, Auckland.{{Cite book| editor-first1=Reina | editor-last1=Whaitiri |editor1-link=Reina Whaitiri |editor-first2=Robert |editor2-link=Robert Sullivan (poet) | editor-last2=Sullivan |title=Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English |date=September 2014 |location=Auckland |publisher=Auckland University Press |isbn=9781869408176}}
She studied at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, graduating with a Diploma of Visual Arts in 1998. During this time, Anderson was an active member of Ngā Puna Waihanga o Tainui, the Māori Artists and Writers' Society of Tainui, and trained under artist James Ormsby. She gained an MFA with first class honours from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2016.
Her work has been shown at Auckland Art Gallery and was included in the exhibition 'Toi Tū Toi Ora', the largest art exhibition held by the gallery since 1989.{{Cite web|title=Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori art show holds record for largest art exhibition since 1989|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/toi-tu-toi-ora-contemporary-maori-art-show-holds-record-for-largest-art-exhibition-since-1989/W55IWDJJE3NDIGHINELQGQKSLM/|access-date=2021-08-17|website=NZ Herald|language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web|title=Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/361827/toi-t-toi-ora-contemporary-mori-art/|access-date=2021-08-17|website=www.e-flux.com|language=en}}
She is currently based in her whānau homestead in Ōtorohanga,{{Cite web|title=Tim Melville|url=http://www.timmelville.com/|access-date=2021-08-17|website=Tim Melville|language=en-US}} where she produces art from a small studio. Anderson affiliates with the iwi, Rereahu, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Apakura.
Artistry
Anderson describes her work as painting 'the everyday lives of people in my community, paying particular attention to relationships amongst family members, intertribal relationships, politics and environments that show the nuance between culture and 21st century life.' Most of her artworks depict everyday scenes of the township of Ōtorohanga.{{Cite web|url=https://tetuhi.art/art-archive/exhibition-archive/a-very-different-world-reader/#hiria-anderson|title=Hiria Anderson (b. 1974)|website=Te Tuhi|access-date=7 April 2022}} Anderson has been praised for her use of chiaroscuro, and her framing of everyday objects; and likened to the artists of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance.{{Cite magazine|first=Lucinda|last=Bennett|title=Hiria Anderson|pages=61–63|magazine=Art Collector|issue=91|year=2020}}
Exhibitions
- A Girl Like Me, 2009
- A Painter on Turongo Street, 2017
- Ahi Kā, 2019
- Te Ao Hurihuri – At the end of the Beginning, 2020{{Cite web|title=Hiria Anderson: Te Ao Hurihuri – At the end of the beginning|url=https://artcollector.net.au/gallery-event/hiria-anderson-te-ao-hurihuri-at-the-end-of-the-beginning/|access-date=2021-08-17|website=Art Collector Magazine|language=en-AU}}
- Under the Radar with Margaret Aull, 2020{{Cite web|title=UNDER THE RADAR: MARGARET AULL & HIRIA ANDERSON |url=https://www.neverprojectspace.com/exhibitions/under-the-radar|access-date=7 April 2022|website=Never Project Space}}
- Hohou Te Rongo: A Strategy towards Health & Wellbeing, 2021{{Cite journal| issn = 1018-4252| volume = 22| issue = 1| last = Joseph| first = Kelly| title = A Journey of Healing, Discovery, and Transformation: Hohou Te Rongo| journal = Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association| date = 2022 |doi=10.5070/PC222156853| doi-access = free}}
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Category:21st-century New Zealand painters
Category:21st-century New Zealand women artists
Category:New Zealand Māori artists
Category:New Zealand Māori women