Group Show
My 'Puanga' painting. Click on the image to buy yours.
I am excited to be a part of a collaborative group Māori art exhibition opening at The Māoriland Hub on Tuesday 10th July at 5.30PM in Ōtaki.
CLICK HERE to learn more about this exhibition and its calendar of special events.
I am excited to be exhibiting some new original works at Mahara Gallery next month with a group of artists in the exhibition 'Mahinga kai, our gardens, cultivations and food gathering'.
Hope to see some of you there. The exhibition opens on FRIDAY 15TH JUNE 2018 at 5PM. Nau mai haere mai!
Waikanae is significant to me because my grandmother was from there and her marae Whakarongotai, is located there.
No matter how far and wide I travel, home is still always where my heart is and spending time at home is hugely important to me and my little family, always has been and always will be, regardless of how hectic my travel schedule can sometimes get.
On Saturday 6th January the 'Māori Modern' exhibition opened in Perth, featuring the work of ten different Māori artists including myself. All of the tickets for this exhibition opening sold out and I was happy to perform some of my spoken word poetry at the opening event too.
The exhibition is showing until 10th February 2018 and viewing is by appointment, please contact The Sound Temple venue directly if you wish to arrange a time to view this exhibition.
Many of the works shown in these photos are also available to purchase online here.
I was thrilled to organize this exhibition alongside the Toi Wāhine Collective at 10 Hartham Place, Porirua, Wellington. Check out our group website here for more info about who we are and what we do. I had three original paintings in this show and it was a privilege to exhibit alongside the following artists:
Robyn Kahukiwa (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti)
Kohai Grace (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Porou)
Elaine Bevan (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa)
Julie Paama-Pengally (Tauranga Moana)
Evelyn Ross (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu)
Hayley Galo (Ngāti Toa)
Kaea Graham (Tūwharetoa, Te Rarawa, Taranaki)
Regan Balzer (Te Arawa, Ngāti Ranginui)
Vianney Parata (Ngāti Toa)
Aria Whaanga (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rakaipaaka)
Natasha Keating (Tūwharetoa, Ngaio Tuhoe, Te Ati Hau a Paparangi)
Pikihuia Haenga (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou)
Sian Montgomery-Neutze (Muaūpoko, Ngai Tara)
Briar Allen (Muaūpoko, Ngaio Tara)
Taryn Beri (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Ātiawa)
Keri-Mei Zagrobelna (Te Whanau a Apanui, Te Ātiawa)
Miriama Grace-Smith (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou)
Rangimarie Sophie Jolley (Waikato - Tainui)
Xoe Hall (Kai Tahu)
Stevei Houkamau (Ngāti Porou, Rangitāne, Te Whānau a Apanui)
Kui Topia (Ngapuhi)
Paretapu Penetito-Waru (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Ngāti Hauā)
Lydia Wihapi (Ngāti Maniapoto)
Maakarita Paku (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Muriwhenua, Lakota Oyate)
Jo Haenga (Ngāti Porou)
This exhibition opened on 23rd June 2016 and will run for six weeks.
Nau mai haere mai ki te tautoko tenei kaupapa!
Sian Montgomery-Neutze, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, Taryn Beri, Miriama Grace-Smith, Xoe Hall, and Pikihuia Haenga-Carkeek at our first wānanga together in preparation for the exhibition. Our jewellery artist Keri-Mei Zagrobelna was in Europe when we took this photo but she will be back in December in time for our exhibition opening!
Due to open on 2nd December in Hartham Place, Porirua, this exhibition is set to be a diverse, unpredictable and exciting mix of seven young Māori female artists. Included in Toi Wāhine 2015 are female painters, moko artists, a writer, a jewellery designer and a film maker, all with some kind of affiliation to and affection for Porirua City.
The idea was born from seeing a call for proposals that was put out by Letting Space's service Urban Dream Brokerage, a radical and conscious organisation that makes use of empty and vacant shop spaces, transforming them for a short time into living, breathing, useful community based spaces.
Our exhibition will open on Wednesday 2nd December and run through till Tuesday 22nd December (please mark it in your calendars). Located under the canopies in Porirua by where childrens clothing store 'TnT' used to be! Details of the official opening event are still to come, so if you are interested then please stay posted (join my mailing list).
An exciting programme of events is currently being developed by our group, with each individual artist running a workshop for the public to come along and participate in, learn, share and contribute. Live tā moko will also be happening in the exhibition space throughout the three week period, including moko kauae.
Contributing artists in Toi Wāhine 2015 are:
Xoe Hall (muralist, glitterist and painter)
Sian Montgomery-Neutze (multimedia artist, painter and moko artist)
Miriama Grace-Smith (multimedia artist and fashion designer)
Keri-Mei Zagrobelna (jewellery artist)
Rangimarie Sophie Jolley (writer)
Taryn Beri (multimedia artist, painter and moko artist)
Pikihuia Haenga-Carkeek (experimental film maker)
So far our group has had two wānanga, sharing ideas and making art together, with more wānanga scheduled to come in the lead up to the opening of the exhibition.
Sian Montgomery-Neutze at our first wānanga toi.
Miriama Grace-Smith at our first wānanga toi.
Rangimarie Sophie Jolley at our first wānanga toi.
Xoe Hall at our first wānanga toi.
We will have interactive installations, paintings and prints for sale, community workshops, live tā moko happening onsite and lots of other fun and awesome things happening over the three weeks - more details to come.
I hope you can make it along to check it out, participate and support the kaupapa!
Mauriora,
Taryn Beri
