Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
A Wellington artist who wants to redefine what a portrait should be has won this year's Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award and a $20,000 prize.
Stevei Houkāmau's work is a five-metre-long sculpture made of multiple clay beads strung along a piece of wire representing her whakapapa.
Pokere Paewai was at the exhibition's opening ceremony yesterday in the capital.
