Centre for Independent Studies’ Warren Mundine discusses the “brain explosion” of a Maori artist in New Zealand who placed ...

The painting, sold for NZ$3.75m (£1.7m), was first shown in Paris, France, in 1939 and shows a kaumātua (tribe elder) with an elaborate moko, which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing ...

An oil painting by renowned New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie set a new benchmark in the country's art history. The portrait, Thoughts of a Tohunga, depicting Maori elder and Ngati ...

"I work within what I call the Hinetapora style, being the 18th century Maori folk art paintings within my ancestral meeting house of the same name located east of Ruatoria." He grew up with these ...

A rare and sought after painting of a Maori chief who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 has sold for a record price for the artist of over $1 million at a delayed art auction in Auckland ...

director at the International Art Centre told the BBC, adding that this was the first time the painting had gone on sale in 33 years. "New Zealanders have an affinity with their history and ...

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PHOTO/JOHN STONE Ten years painting houses put recent NorthTec graduate Paora Tiatoa in good step for a successful future in the contemporary Maori art scene. Mr Tiatoa described himself as a ...

Developing a passion for drawing, he eventually became a student at Te Puia’s Maori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua, on New Zealand’s North Island, and says it was a natural progression ...