Raukura Turei
Te Huka o te Tai , 2022
flashe, aumoana (blue clay), polymer binder and onepū (black manganite sand) on linen
910 x 760 x 50mm each
910 x 1520mm total
910 x 1520mm total
Further images
Raukura Turei b. 1987 (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi) Raukura Turei is a multi-disciplinary artist, architect, and designer. She uses natural materials in her practice, such as aumoana,...
Raukura Turei
b. 1987 (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi)
Raukura Turei is a multi-disciplinary artist, architect, and designer. She uses natural materials in her practice, such as aumoana, a blue clay from her tīpuna whenua of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and onepū, black iron sands from Te Uru, Auckland's west coast. Using whenua from places connected to her whakapapa, Turei creates artworks that relate to her tīpuna (ancestors). According to an interview with the artist in Homestyle Magazine, “Her paintings evoke the strength of ngā atua wāhine Māori, while meditating on the self, sensuality, and body sovereignty.”
Turei’s 2022 work Te Huka o te Tai features in This Must Be the Place. A two-panel work, or diptych, Te Huka o te Tai presents the viewer with a richly detailed and textural surface. The natural materials used in the work add to the visual and sensorial effects, with gleaming reflections from the onepū contrasting and harmonising with the earthy tones of the aumoana.
Turei’s artwork has been exhibited at many locations throughout Aotearoa, including Toi o Tāmaki - Auckland Art Gallery, Toi Moroki - CoCA, Ōtautahi, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Pātaka Toi - The Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and internationally at the Tokyo Art Fair, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, and Day01 Gallery, Sydney.
b. 1987 (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi)
Raukura Turei is a multi-disciplinary artist, architect, and designer. She uses natural materials in her practice, such as aumoana, a blue clay from her tīpuna whenua of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and onepū, black iron sands from Te Uru, Auckland's west coast. Using whenua from places connected to her whakapapa, Turei creates artworks that relate to her tīpuna (ancestors). According to an interview with the artist in Homestyle Magazine, “Her paintings evoke the strength of ngā atua wāhine Māori, while meditating on the self, sensuality, and body sovereignty.”
Turei’s 2022 work Te Huka o te Tai features in This Must Be the Place. A two-panel work, or diptych, Te Huka o te Tai presents the viewer with a richly detailed and textural surface. The natural materials used in the work add to the visual and sensorial effects, with gleaming reflections from the onepū contrasting and harmonising with the earthy tones of the aumoana.
Turei’s artwork has been exhibited at many locations throughout Aotearoa, including Toi o Tāmaki - Auckland Art Gallery, Toi Moroki - CoCA, Ōtautahi, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Pātaka Toi - The Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and internationally at the Tokyo Art Fair, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, and Day01 Gallery, Sydney.
Exhibitions
First shown at Wairau Art Gallery show 'Te Whanga a Raipae'
This Must Be The Place, Inaugural Exhibition, 6 April - 4 May 2024, Gow Langsford Gallery, Onehunga, NZ