He Tukutuku Auahatanga: Maureen Lander with Community

He Tukutuku Auahatanga presents new and existing collaborative installations conceived by Dr. Maureen Lander MNZM (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutū) and made with community through processes of relational and intergenerational knowledge transmission and regeneration.

A celebrated multi-media artist, Lander is well known for her fibre installations that are inextricably interwoven with the location, context, and community for which her works are created. Across this exhibition, she weaves together concepts, images and materials that explore enduring relationships between people, place, and material culture.

Over 100 artists have been involved in the making of He Tukutuku Auahatanga with Lander as the lead artist. Through this approach Lander embraces the contingent meaning, and ephemeral nature of site-responsive installation art and art making with other people. This embrace of ephemerality as inevitable, reflects an understanding of weaving as an art that is intrinsically entwined with rangahau—or the pursuit of knowledge—the continuity of which rests in the hands and minds of the people.

Opening Day Programme 

Saturday, 14 June 2025 | Free entry for all on opening day (Free entry for New Plymouth residents, Friends/Foundation and Under 16s always)

10.30AM – 12PM MOURI WAI, MOURI TANGATA: THE NEXT GENERATION OF KAITIAKI SHARE THEIR STORY

Hear from Ngā Manu Pīkoko, youth leaders, who have collaborated with lead artist Maureen Lander to create Ngā Puna Waiora 1993/2025, a fibre installation focused on kaitiakitanga and hauora. Ngā Manu Pīkoko will share their connection to local awa, kiwi, and whenua, and their passion for the environment and cultural heritage.

1 – 2PM ENTWINED PERSPECTIVES: A TOUR WITH THE ARTISTS

Join Maureen Lander and collaborating artists present for the exhibition opening as they share insights into the ideas and processes behind their work. Together, they will consider how knowledge systems—both inherited and emergent—are woven into a collective form.

2.30 – 3.30PM HE TAUIRA, HE TAURA, HEI TAUIRA

Be inspired to engage with and revive the playful mix of innovation and tradition evidenced in the small kete made by our kuia. Join five of the artists involved in the kete iti kaupapa, Bethany Matai Edmunds, Kiriana O’Connell, Makareta Jahnke, Nadia Tamihana and Audra Potaka as they discuss the mātauranga Māori gained from participating in the project.

Public Programmes

Free to attend; nau mai, haere mai

WED 25 JUN | 10.30AM – 12PM RANGĀ TE REO 

Nau mai ki te wetenga o te kete! Ka tirohia ngā whenu o tā Maureen Landers kaupapa kua rangā ki ngā taonga nei hei kai mā te hinengaro.  

SAT 9 AUG | 1PM - 2PM KARANGA RUA:  COMMITTING TO CREATIVITY, INVESTING IN INNOVATION 

Join artists Karen Clark, Mako Jones, Ngahina Wharehoka and Purewa Hodge in conversation as they share how ancestral threads inform their contemporary practices.

SAT 6 SEPT | 1PM - 2PM MANA WHENUA, MANA TAONGA: ARTISTS AS KAITIAKI

Join artists Ngahina Hohaia, Matthew McIntyre-Wilson and Tara-lee Manu as they discuss their practice of active care for taonga and their vision for the future.

More public programmes to be announced.
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