Clay artist Wi Taepa’s retrospective

From Standing Room Only, 2:48 pm on 29 April 2018

Wi Taepa in his studio, Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua, 1990, Image courtesy of Whitireia Polytechnic.

Wi Taepa's Nuku Puta 1994 from Kauhuri Cultivation. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Photo Jeff McEwen.

Wi Taepa's Parautanga Plough 2005 from Kauhuri Cultivation. Collection of the artist Courtesy of Sonya Rimene. Photo Jeff McEwen.

Wi Taepa's Untitled Ipu 2000, from Mahere Mapping. Collection Pātaka Art + Museum. Photo Jeff McEwen.

Wi Taepa's Nuku Puta 1994 from Kauhuri Cultivation. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Photo Jeff McEwen.

Wi Taepa's Waka 2004 from Raranga Cross Hatching. Collection od Sir Roderick and Gillian, Lady Deane. Photo Jeff McEwen.

Wi Taepa's Whale Migration circa 1998 from Hononga Connections. Collection of Pātaka Art + Museum. Gift of the Deane Endowment Trust. Photo Jeff McEwen.

Nigel Borell, Curator, Maori Art at Auckland Art Gallery.

For more than 30 years senior Maori clay artist Wi Taepa has loved getting his hands dirty. His approach is determinedly low-tech. He builds his vessels by hand, fires them in sawdust, and uses oxides and other clay slips that have served him well during his long career.

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