Te Mata
Gathering of Contemporary Indigenous Visual Artists
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The Te Mata Gathering of Contemporary Indigenous Visual Artists will be held in Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand during 16 - 23 January 2005 and will feature exhibitions, art-making workshops and cultural exchange between Maori artists and Indigenous artists from Canada, the USA, Australia and the Pacific.
The Te Mata Gathering is the third gathering to be held in Aotearoa and follows on from previous Te Atinga events in 1995 (Wananga of Contemporary Visual Arts, Apumoana Marae, Rotorua) and 2000 (Te Ra ArtFest, Toihoukura, Gisborne), where 100 First Nations and Indigenous artists gathered together. This third gathering will reinforce the Pacfiic and Pacific Rim Artists' Network , and enable younger visual artists to establish themselves in that network.
Over 40 artists from Canada, the USA, Australia and New Caledonia have confirmed that they will be travelling to Aotearoa to join Maori artists for the Te Mata Gathering. The week-long gathering will focus on shared art-making workshops and artists' presentations and will provide a forum for rich and varied dialogue to take place between the individual artists and the cultures that they represent.
The venue for the Te Mata Gathering will be Toimairangi , School of Maori Visual Culture in Hastings which will also host an exhibition representing artists attending the Te Mata Gathering and spanning the artforms of sculpture, fibre, painting, and mixed media.
Te Mata Gathering of Contemporary Indigenous Visual Artists is presented by Te Atinga - the National Collective for Contemporary Maori Visual Arts; one of the 10 artform groups within Toi Maori Aotearoa - Maori Arts New Zealand.
Te Mata, the 3rd Gathering, promotes living cultures and the place that art , traditional and contemporary , has in reflecting the culture of the individual nations that will be represented.
~ Sandy Adsett, Te Mata Convener
The Te Mata Gathering is generously funded by Te Waka Toi Maori arts board of Creative New Zealand.
Participation is strictly by invitation only.
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