Kete Aronui is a half hour art show featuring artists from all around Aotearoa and covering all disciplines. From music, carvers, performers, weavers, painters, sculptors, filma makers, theatre and multimedia, Kete Aronui is at the heart of indigenous art. Kete Aronui is driven by an acknowledgement of the immense indigenous talent in Aotearoa. In each of the episodes, today’s artists are talking about their lives, their work, achievements, passion and aspirations. Each programme develops and maintains a style and a pace that best reveals and illuminates each artist’s life, philosophy and works, giving the audience potent insight into the creative process and inspiration that may carry over into their own lives.
Kete Aronui is a half hour art show featuring artists from all around Aotearoa and covering all disciplines. From music, carvers, performers, weavers, painters, sculptors, film makers, theatre and multimedia, Kete Aronui is at the heart of indigenous art. Kete Aronui is driven by an acknowledgement of the immense indigenous talent in Aotearoa. In each of the episodes, today’s artists are talking about their lives, their work, achievements, passion and aspirations. Each programme develops and maintains a style and a pace that best reveals and illuminates each artist’s life, philosophy and works, giving the audience potent insight into the creative process and inspiration that may carry over into their own lives.
A celebration of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita – the first New Zealand woman to write and direct a feature film.
Tonight: Tracey Tawhiao trained as a lawyer but instead chose to become a poet, painter and writer. Her paintings emphasise the position of Maori in contemporary New Zealand society.
A celebration of contemporary Maori artists from across the art world. Tonight: Tracey Tawhiao trained as a lawyer but chose not to follow that professional path and became instead a poet, painter and writer. Her paintings explore the position of Maori in contemporary New Zealand society.
A wonderful series that looks at the vibrant and varied world of Maori artists in Aotearoa, and the wondrous and thought-provoking works they create. Tonight: Pip Hartley (Tuwharetoa / Poukara) is an emerging ta moko artist with wisdom beyond her years. A self-described ‘student of the universe’, Pip’s learning continues to inform her approach to ta moko. Based at Mana Moko Studios on Auckland’s K’ Rd, Pip has always attracted a wide variety of clientele, local and international, and she takes on each individual with caution, acknowledging the sacred symbols and signs of protection that ta moko can represent.
A celebration of contemporary artists from across the art world, from a Maori perspective. Tonight: Peter Gordon (Ngati Kahungunu) is a top international celebrity chef who makes an artform of his culinary creations. Undoubtedly one of the country’s most successful exports, he has an international reputation for pushing boundaries with his innovative fusion cuisine.