Carving for Queen and Iwi: fourth-generation carver Renata te Wiata
Young Maori artists are currently being called to enter portraits of their tupuna, their ancestors in any media for the ...
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Painting of Māori elder sells for £1.7m and becomes most valuable artwork in New Zealand history
The painting, sold for NZ$3.75m (£1.7m), was first shown in Paris, France, in 1939 and shows a kaumātua (tribe elder) with an elaborate moko, which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing ...