Ngā Kaihanga Uku
Ngā Kaihanga Uku is a New Zealand collective of Māori Clayworkers. They formed in 1986 during a Ngā Puna Waihanga (Māori Artists and Writers collective) gathering, under the leadership of Baye Riddell and Manos Nathan.{{cite book|last1=Kedgley|first1=Helen|last2=Nicholas|first2=Darcy|title=Uku Rere: Ngā Kaihanga uku & Beyond|date=2013|publisher=Pataka Art + Museum|location=Porirua City}} Founding members also include Paerau Corneal, Colleen Waata Urlich and Wi Taepa.{{cite web|title=Ngā Kaihanga Uku|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/speech/45319/nga-kaihanga-uku|website=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|accessdate=14 January 2015}}
Contemporary Māori clay artists
Ngā Kaihanga Uku was formed to support the growing use of clay within Māori-based art practices in the 1980s. Although customary Māori society was not a ceramic culture, the intrinsic properties and physical relationship of clay being from the earth offered Māori clay artists a new avenue through which to portray Māori lives and knowledge. Hineahuone for example, who is considered to be the first human, was formed by clay at Kurawaka.{{cite book|last1=Urlich|first1=Colleen Waata|title=Ngā Kaihanga Uku: National Collective of Māori Clayworkers|date=2009|publisher=C. Urlich|location=Dargaville}} As Wi Taepa states, ‘Clay is more than an artistic material, it is a blood relative. Working with it requires an understanding of the genealogical links between humanity and Papatūānuku (earth).{{cite web|title=Papatūānuku - the land|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/11431/hineahuone-and-tane|website=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|accessdate=14 January 2015}}
Selected exhibitions
- 2013-4 Uku Rere: Ngā Kaihanga Uku & beyond Pataka Art + Museum, Whangarei Art Museum: Te Manawa Toi, The Suter Art Gallery: Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Waikato Museum: Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Tairawhiti Museum: Te Whare Taonga o te Tairawhiti, and Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science + History, Palmerston North.{{cite web|title=Uku Rere|url=http://www.maoriart.org.nz/latest_news.php?news_id=95|website=Toi Māori|accessdate=9 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114111242/http://www.maoriart.org.nz/latest_news.php?news_id=95|archive-date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead}}
- 2003-5 Ngā Toko Rima Ngā Kaihanga Uku. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Tinakori Gallery, Wellington.{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Huhana|last2=Solomon|first2=Oriwa|last3=Tamarapa|first3=Awhina|last4=Tamati-Quenell|first4=Megan|last5=Heke|first5=Norm|title=Taiawhio II: Contemporary Māori Artists 18 new conversations|date=2007|publisher=Te Papa Press|location=Wellington|isbn=9780909010096}}
- 1998 Uku! Uku! Uku! International Festival of the Arts, Wellington.{{cite book|last1=McPherson|first1=Heather|last2=King|first2=M|last3=Evans|first3=J|last4=Nunn|first4=M|title=Spiral 7: a collection of lesbian art and writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand|date=1992|publisher=Spiral|location=Dunedin|isbn=0908896247}}
- 1994 Kurawaka The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.
Publications
- Kedgley, H. Nicholas, D. (2013) Uku Rere: Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Beyond. Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua City.
- Urlich, Colleen Waata. (2009) Nga Kaihanga Uku: National Collective of Māori Clayworkers Dargaville NZ.
- Riddell, Baye. (2023) Ngā Kaihanga Uku Māori Clay Artists. Te Papa Press. Wellington, NZ.
References
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External links
- [http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/speech/45319/nga-kaihanga-uku Crafts and Applied Arts]
- [http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/teahikaa/audio/2563316/nga-kaihanga-uku-the-maori-clay-makers-collective Ngā Kaihanga Uku on Radio New Zealand National]
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