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Wi TaepaWi Te Tau Pirika Taepa Wi Te Tau Pirika Taepa (Te Arawa, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Ātiawa) is one the five founders of Ngā Kaihanga Uku who are known as ‘Ngā Toka Rima', and their work was the subject of the national touring exhibition ‘Uku Rere' (2013-14). Born in Waiwhetu, Wi was introduced to ceramics through the Levin Pottery Club in the 1980s leading him to become part of Ngā Kaihanga Uku at the 1986 Ngā Puna Waihanga hui. With a background in carving, Wi's fulsome ceramic sculptures combine figurative elements of whakairo, koruru, tekoteko and poutokomanawa, and Māori vessel forms such as waka huia, ipu and kumete, all with his characteristic rough-textured surface. This exhibition follows on from the thirty-year survey of Wi's practice, developed by Pataka Art Museum and successfully re-staged at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Sarjeant Art Gallery in Whanganui, to reunite his work with this collective expression of the Ngā Kaihanga Uku movement.
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