Native Portraits N.19897 Media

Mai Te Aroha Media

Digital Marae Media

Tai Whetuki Media

Native Portraits N.19897 Media

Mai Te Aroha Media

Digital Marae Media

Tai Whetuki Media

SELECTED WORKS

Nomads of the Sea weaves historical fact with fiction to explore the social tension between cultural leadership, spiritual custom and egotistical desire in the face of foreign political challenge in 1800’s New Zealand.

NOMADS OF THE SEA

Tai Whetuki delves into Māori and Pacific cultural practices pertaining to death and mourning. Haunting and evocative images, accompanied by an elemental soundscape take us on a journey through the intensity and spectacle of communal mourning, in

TAI WHETUKI - HOUSE OF DEATH

IN PURSUIT OF VENUS

The familiarity of their visibly human form is disrupted by the introduction of alien elements and unnatural poses. They are unheimlich – eerily uncanny.

PELT

The marae is an ancestral home for Māori people, a meeting space and a site for exchange. An ongoing project spanning multiple years, Digital Marae explores Māori creation stories and ancestral figures, reinterpreted by Reihana into contemporary p

DIGITAL MARAE

In 2008, Lisa Reihana was asked to produce a new installation for Te Papa Tongarewa. Mai i te aroha, ko te aroha was commissioned especially for Te Ara ā Hine, the ceremonial walkway that leads to Te Papa’s Marae, Rongomaraeroa.

MAI I TE AROHA, KO TE AROHA

Originally commissioned by Te Papa Tongarewa, to begin this project Reihana sifted through the museum’s collection of nineteenth-century photo portraits of Māori. Taking these portraits as a starting point, she dressed up her Māori friends in old-fa

NATIVE PORTRAITS N.19897

Justice celebrates the life of Ellen Melville, the first woman elected to city council in New Zealand and advocate for women in public life. The sculpture adorns the facade of the Ellen Melville Centre in central Auckland.

JUSTICE

The Pacific Sisters are Lisa Reihana, Rosanna Raymond, Ani O’Neill, Suzanne Tamaki, Selina Haami, Niwhai Tupaea, Henzart @ Henry Ah-Foo Taripo, Feeonaa Wall, and Jaunnie ‘Ilolahia.

PACIFIC SISTERS

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