Atarangi Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist currently on a journey to understand and re-connect with Aute (Māori barkcloth). Her mahi is a practice-based approach, meaning the realisation of the project or outcome that happens during making allows for broader collaboration with materials and te taiao (the natural environment). Her paintings are physical representations of learnings developed to help understand her place within te ao mārama.
Atarangi writes: ‘Whakapapa is a nod to all the tīpuna past, present, and future who are woven without end in time and space as an interconnected web of intimate relations.’