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Feature | <strong>Magazine</strong> 47<br />
When she returned to land, she began work on what was to become a 17.4m-long work<br />
made up of 11 painted wooden panels. Named ‘Ko Ao, Ko Ao, Ko Aotearoa!’ for the call<br />
of Kuramārōtini, the wife of Kupe, one of New Zealand’s first navigators, it’s completely<br />
painted with clay from the whenua across the North and South islands.<br />
“It’s made from processes that Māori would have been using for 100 years and showcases<br />
that. It is a celebration of it for myself and is one of the show’s great achievements.”<br />
She has also used hiapo, but not in the way most people familiar with her work will<br />
expect. Her hiapo work has been credited with reigniting interest in the historical cultural<br />
practice in the Niuean community.<br />
“A lot of the compositions are new for me – my work doesn’t look like what it usually<br />
looks like. I think people are going to be surprised purely because I’m looking at it from the<br />
perspective of encountering Aotearoa – it doesn’t feature any traditional Niuean motifs that<br />
my work is known for.”
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