Flat Pack Whakapapa
Maureen Lander
18 to 26 April 2021
Dr Maureen Lander (TeHikutu, Ngapuhi) is a multi-media installation artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1986. From the early 1990’s until 2007 Maureen taught Maori Material Culture courses at Auckland University. Her contemporary artwork draws inspiration from woven fibre pieces in museum collections and early illustrations.
Flat-Pack Whakapapa considers kinship, family and friendship networks as well as genetic heritage.. Approaching these forms of human connection from a mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) perspective, Lander engages with weaving techniques—including whiri (braiding) and whakairo (patterning)—and the concept of aho tuku iho (ancestral lines handed down continuously from generation to generation). Her approach symbolises how whakapapa grows with us, and how our genealogy is inherited by our descendants, who continue our heritage lines
Dr Maureen Lander (TeHikutu, Ngapuhi) is a multi-media installation artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1986. From the early 1990’s until 2007 Maureen taught Maori Material Culture courses at Auckland University. Her contemporary artwork draws inspiration from woven fibre pieces in museum collections and early illustrations.
Flat-Pack Whakapapa considers kinship, family and friendship networks as well as genetic heritage.. Approaching these forms of human connection from a mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) perspective, Lander engages with weaving techniques—including whiri (braiding) and whakairo (patterning)—and the concept of aho tuku iho (ancestral lines handed down continuously from generation to generation). Her approach symbolises how whakapapa grows with us, and how our genealogy is inherited by our descendants, who continue our heritage lines
