Veranoa Hetet
{{Short description|New Zealand Māori weaver}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2025}}
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| birth_name = Veranoa Angelique Puketapu-Hetet
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1966}}
| birth_place = Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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| field = Weaving
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| website = {{url|https://www.hetetschoolofmaoriart.com|Hetet School of Māori Art}}
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Veranoa Angelique Hetet {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSM|size=85%}} (born 1966) is a New Zealand Māori weaver and contemporary artist.{{Cite journal|last=Meduna|first=Veronika|date=Nov–Dec 2020|title=The Unbroken Thread|url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-unbroken-thread/|journal=New Zealand Geographic|volume=166}}
Biography
Hetet was born in 1966 in Waiwhetū, Lower Hutt.{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Huhana|title=Taiāwhio: Conversations with Contemporary Māori Artists|last2=Tamarapa|first2=Awhina|date=2002|publisher=Te Papa Press|isbn=0-909010-86-2|location=Wellington}} She was taught how to weave her first kete when she was 13 years old by her mother Erenora Puketapu-Hetet.{{Cite web|last=Catherall|first=Sarah|date=2020-09-19|title=Meet the Maker: Veranoa Hetet weaves aroha and heritage into her work|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/te-reo-maori/300106804/meet-the-maker-veranoa-hetet-weaves-aroha-and-heritage-into-her-work|access-date=2021-01-07|website=Stuff|language=en}} Her mother went on to teach her weaving techniques in raranga, tāniko and whatu kakahu, and from her father she learnt tukutuku and kowhaiwhai from her father, master carver Rangi Hetet. Several generations of the Hetet family have been practitioners and teachers of Māori weaving techniques, ever since Rangimārie Hetet composed a waiata asking her descendants to uphold these traditions.
Since 1996 Hetet has taught weaving at tertiary institutions such as Te Wananga o Raukawa, Wellington Polytechnic, Te Whanau Paneke, and The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. She is based in Waiwhetū, Lower Hutt, where she teaches weaving online at the Hetet School of Māori Art started by her parents.{{cite web|title=Veranoa Hetet|url=http://www.maoriart.org.nz/veranoa-hetet-p-362.html|access-date=29 January 2015|website=Toi Māori Aotearoa}}{{Cite book|title=Taiāwhio : conversations with contemporary Māori artists|date=2002|publisher=Te Papa Press|others=Smith, Huhana.|isbn=0-909010-86-2|location=Wellington [N.Z.]|oclc=50999083}}{{Cite web|title=Hetet School of Māori Art|url=https://www.hetetschoolofmaoriart.com/|access-date=2021-01-07|website=Hetet School of Maori Art|language=en}}
In 2012 Hetet and her group of weavers Te Roopu Mīro were weavers in residence for the exhibition Kahu Ora at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.{{cite web|title=Kahu Ora|url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Topic/3604|website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|access-date=25 October 2016}} In a previous discussion with Awhina Tamarapa, the curator of Kuhu Ora, Hetet describes her passion for learning, 'Every time you learn a technique, it opens up the possibilities even more. So the more you’re exposed to, the more possibilities there are for creating things'.File:Waiwhetu Marae including te waharoa.JPG in Lower Hutt, Wellington]]Hetet has received funding from Creative New Zealand for the development of new works and travel.{{cite web|title=Who got Funded 2011|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/who-got-funded/funding-rounds/te-waka-toi-quick-response-grants-may-aug-2011-mar-may-2011?direction=asc&sort=amount|access-date=29 January 2015|website=Creative New Zealand}} In 2014 she received a substantial arts grant to produce works for an exhibition at The Dowse Art Museum.{{cite web|title=Funding round: Arts Grant|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/who-got-funded/funding-rounds/arts-grants?page=4&sort=organisation_artist|access-date=29 January 2015|website=Creative New Zealand}} She has exhibited and travelled widely, including a 2014 one-month residency on St Helena, researching and teaching about extracting muka from the flax which has grown on the island since the mid-1900s.{{cite news|last1=Edwards|first1=Simon|date=17 September 2012|title=Veranoa weaves her way to St Helena|agency=The Dominion Post|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hutt-valley/7691615/Veranoa-weaves-her-way-to-St-Helena|access-date=29 January 2015}}
The Waiwhetū Marae has a close association with the Hetet family and the meeting house Aroha ki te Tangata includes art work by Veranoa Hetet as well as her mother and father.{{Cite web|date=2018-02-22|title=THE MAORI HEART OF THE HOUSE|url=http://www.atiawa.com/marae_history4.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222044715/http://www.atiawa.com/marae_history4.htm|archive-date=2018-02-22|access-date=2021-01-07|website=Te Runanganui o Taranaki Whanui}}
Honours and awards
In the 2020 New Year Honours, Hetet was awarded the Queen's Service Medal, for services to Māori art.{{cite web|date=31 December 2019|title=New Year honours list 2020|url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2020|access-date=31 December 2019|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet}}
Exhibitions
Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum, City Gallery Wellington, Waikato Museum and Puke Ariki.{{cite web|title=Collections Online|url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/638356|website=Te Papa Tongarewa|access-date=29 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=Local Knowledge|url=http://dowse.org.nz/exhibitions/detail/local-knowledge|website=The Dowse Art Museum|access-date=29 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=Precious Cargo|url=http://www.timwigmore.com/projects/installations/precious-cargo/|website=Tim Wigmore|access-date=29 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=Ngā Uri Whakatipu|url=http://waikatomuseum.co.nz/exhibitions-and-events/view/2145882457/e-nga-uri-whakatupu|website=Waikato Museum|access-date=29 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=Call of Taranaki|url=http://pukeariki.com/Exhibitions/Call-Of-Taranaki-Reo-Karanga-O-Taranaki|website=Puke Ariki|access-date=29 January 2015}}
- Kahu Ora (2012), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
- Veranoa Hetet: Creating Potential (10 Oct 2020 – 28 Feb 2021), The Dowse Art Museum{{Cite web|title=Veranoa Hetet: Creating Potential|url=https://dowse.org.nz/exhibitions/detail/veranoa-hetet|access-date=2021-01-07|website=The Dowse Art Museum|language=en}}
Family
Hetet’s mother was master weaver Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, and her father is master carver Rangi Hetet. Hetet is of Te Atiawa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto descent. She attributes her knowledge of Māori arts to her upbringing and family. Her great-grandmother was Dame Rangimārie Hetet and her great aunt was Diggeress Te Kanawa.{{cite web|last1=Tamarapa|first1=Awhina|title=Kahu Ora Weaver: Te Roopu Mīro|url=http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/08/17/kahu-ora-weavers-te-roopu-miro/|access-date=29 January 2015|website=Te Papa Tongarewa}}
Hetet is married to carver Sam Hauwaho. They have five children.{{Cite magazine|date=8 April 2019|title=Weaving Through Life|magazine=New Zealand Woman's Weekly|pages=32–33}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/teahikaa/audio/2568369/veranoa-hetet|Panel Discussion at Call of Taranaki Puke Ariki]
- [https://www.facebook.com/weavingwithveranoahetet The artists's public Facebook page]
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Category:People from Lower Hutt
Category:20th-century New Zealand textile artists
Category:New Zealand Māori weavers
Category:New Zealand Māori artists
Category:Ngāti Tūwharetoa people
Category:Ngāti Maniapoto people
Category:Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family
Category:20th-century New Zealand women textile artists
Category:Recipients of the Queen's Service Medal
Category:21st-century women textile artists