Terri Te Tau
Te Tau at the Venice Biennale Youth Forum in 2017
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materMassey University
Websitehttps://www.territetau.com/

Terri Te Tau is a New Zealand contemporary artist and writer.[1] She is a member of the Mata Aho Collective.[2][3] In 2017, the collective represented New Zealand at documenta, a quinquennial contemporary-art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.[2][3][4] This was the first time New Zealand artists had been invited to present their work at the event.[2][5]

Te Tau, who is of Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu descent,[6] was raised in the Wairarapa region She received her tertiary education at Massey University,[1] where she is a lecturer at the Whiti o Rehua School of Art.[7] Her doctoral thesis was on a conceptual Māori response to state surveillance.[8]

Funding from the Earle CreativityTrust[9] led to an exhibition held at Te Manawa, a museum in Palmerston North, in October 2015.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Terri Te Tau". www.circuit.org.nz. Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 McDonald, Dani (12 June 2017). "documenta14: Maori art tells stories of the past on the prestigious world stage". Stuff. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 Hopkins, Candice. "Mata Aho Collective". www.documenta14.de. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. Braddock, Christopher (2017). Animism in Art and Performance. Switzerland: Springer. p. 41. ISBN 9783319665504.
  5. "First time New Zealand art to feature at international documenta exhibition". www.creativenz.govt.nz. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  6. Te Tau, Terri. "terri te tau - about". www.territetau.com. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  7. "Dr Terri Te Tau - Lecturer - Massey University". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  8. Te Tau (2015). Beyond the corners of our whare: a conceptual Māori response to state surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/10825.
  9. "Visual Arts - Earle Creativity Trust". Earle Creativity Trust. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  10. Thomas, Carly (23 October 2015). "Earles Trust funded exhibition on display". Manawatū Standard. Retrieved 11 October 2018.


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