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Nga Tapuwae o Mataoho Installation Image

Emily Karaka

Biennale of Sydney

Biennale of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Emily Karaka’s sumptuous, colourful and powerful paintings have long reflected her physical involvement in Māori Land Rights and Treaty Claims issues. Her new series of works are directly indexed to an ongoing political struggle and land dispute at Ihumātao, where Māori protestors have contested a proposed housing development on a sacred area and significant archaeological site, calling for the land to be returned. Through her Ahiwaru tribal group, Karaka has been directly involved in the ongoing struggle, and these paintings tell parts of the story from a position within the process. The works are almost cartographic, creating visual space on each canvas that is tethered to material, cultural and political geographies and languages.

installation view in the Old Courts at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

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  • Title: Nga Tapuwae o Mataoho Installation Image
  • Creator: Emily Karaka, Emily Karaka
  • Date Created: 2020
  • Location Created: Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Physical Dimensions: 199 x 277 cm
  • Provenance: Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with assistance from Creative New Zealand. Courtesy the artist.
  • Type: painting
  • Rights: Biennale of Sydney
  • Medium: mixed media on canvas
  • Edition: 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020): NIRIN
Biennale of Sydney

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