Category: Neke Moa

  Title: Ukaipo – mother, source of sustenance, origin, real home Explored through beach finds shell and wood, my new home is explored and captured through pieces of daily activity and finding place.  Tangaroa and Hinemoana echo and reassure providing treasures and inspiration. Hekenga – moving a place to live to another. Each day the beach… Continue reading ukaipo

Turning an object into a pendant, into something wearable comes with ‘stringing up’ a bit of rope or string or something more interesting. Deciding on what I was going to use to turn these objects into pendants was my last part of the puzzle and challenge.  Length, size, width, material, plaited, woven, braided, plain. It… Continue reading Taura – stringing up

Kainga -Home Home: tastes, smells, sounds and sensations, we carry these as we travel as we move from place to place. I have been looking at sound, soundscapes, mix tapes, layers of sound, beats, lyrics.  Songs, waiata that transport us through time and space, that remind us of place, moments, nostalgic happenings, feelings. How do… Continue reading Kainga-Home

The processes of creating are different each time I tackle a project.  They can often start the same..materials being often a starting point.  With the Coda pieces, it makes life a bit easier? different at least to be able to have a conversation and dialogue with these 3 works, even though I am not able… Continue reading Mahi mahia – doing the work

Title: Diaspora I intend to make a series of work 3-5 pieces with a sound component.  I will be researching the theme and concept of diaspora it is used in a contemporary context to describe indigenous/native people who live away from their homeland for one reason or another  I will look at my journey of… Continue reading Te Uru – Diaspora

When I choose the pieces from the coda collection the most prominent attraction for me was the shapes of the main pendants and then the materials they were made from. Therefore I began to explore the shapes the round convex matte object of Ruudt Peters, how would this look and feel in stone, flattened, with… Continue reading Nga ahua – shapes

Timata..begin Ko te whiringa..the choosing Matte black circle curved bezeled convex symmetrical contrasting. Object. I never took notice of the artists but the appearance of the items i choose from Coda. The object pleases my order and i feel when i look at it a need to make something opposing.! Object, Ruut Peters 1988, steel.… Continue reading Timata