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Atarangi Anderson

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Dreamer and maker of aute.
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngati Hauiti

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Te Ao Marama. Kahu aute with muka tassels and pounamu toggles by Atarangi Anderson.

Atarangi’s exhibition ‘He Wāhine. He Aute.” at Toi o Owairaka (closing 30th April) represents a step towards exploring the ways in which aute can be woven into the ceremony of life. Te Ao Marama, made of aute harvested in Owairaka, is a full length cloak to wear during graduation, celebration, Matariki, receiving moko kauae, and I can even see it at a wedding!

Throughout her Masters, Atarangi and I spoke at length about how to move aute out of the gallery context and into our world. This series of pieces is a historical milestone in the practice of aute and is exactly where we should be heading in this moment.

The courage to make something like this is immense. The courage to present your ideas and dreams to the world is huge. Atarangi is also brave in her ability to ask for help and rally her community in the process of making, binding us all and bringing us along in the journey. Her great strength is her humility in knowing that as a student of aute, the space of learning is a space of potential and fluidity and it is okay to not have all the answers yet. Aute is an evolving artform and we are evolving practitioners. Full of hope for how we can take care of this taonga and how this taonga will take care of us. Photos by Seb Charles. by @atarangia

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This mahi, titled Ngā Mata Moana, is part of my series Ngā Mata Aute and seeks to contextualize ourselves as kiriaute (aute makers) within the whakapapa of the Moana. We look as if through the eyes of aute to see the shared mātauranga that tapa, kapa, siapo, and hiapo hold across all her islands. By doing this, we acknowledge aute as the umbilical cord of Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa, binding the Moana and her peoples closer together. 🌊🐳

👁️ by @atarangia

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Feeling cute might delete later…

@temanawa_themovement booth @aotearoaartfair 2026

Photo by amazing, stunning, most talented @nic_sandflower by @atarangia

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Join artist Atarangi Anderson for a lecture exploring her practice of making, research, and the intergenerational transmission of Māori barkcloth knowledge. Atarangi will reflect on the relationships through which knowledge is shared and sustained, including whakapapa, mentorship, tuakana–teina, and learning through materials, kin, ancestors, and the natural world.

Deep dive: Lecture by Atarangi Anderson
Wednesday 2 September, 6pm
Free

Free RSVP on our website or at the our link in our bio.

@atarangia by @atarangia

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This Matariki my whānau couldn’t all gather together in one place, so instead I made everyone a little manu aute.
Each manu has a small piece of aute tied to its tail with space to write the names of loved ones who have passed.

One of the beautiful ceremonies of Matariki was the flying of manu aute. We would tie little shells and feathers to them and remember those who had passed throughout the year.

It makes me wonder whether aute may also have been used in this way as part of our deathing ceremonies. When I imagine those great manu soaring through the sky with their bird-like bodies and human aute faces, I think about aute as a gift from Hina a material we use to help navigate Te Ao Wairua. From birth to death. 🤍

This week my friends and I are gathering for a little dinner to make our own manu, creating taonga for our whare that honour the people we love and our tīpuna.

These little manu aren’t the great ceremonial manu with bird-like bodies and human faces. They’re small and shaped like pātiki. For me, pātiki speaks of abundance, but also of the spaces between Te Ao Mārama and Te Ao Wairua. These manu aren’t made to fly, but to hang quietly in your home as a reminder of the people you carry with you.

If you’d like one for your own Matariki, I’ve also put a free manu aute template in my bio so you can make your own with whatever fibre paper you have. I think they’d be beautiful made with harakeke paper, or with kōzo washi—a traditional Japanese paper often made from the fibres of the paper mulberry tree, the same plant as aute.
It’s been a big season of transition for me, and a season of remembering. Matariki has felt a little like an express train of emotions.

My hope is that this year we can remember aute and the roll she plays in navigating Te Ao
Wairua.

Ngā mihi nui for all of your support this year. 🤍

Arohanui,
Atarangi by @atarangia

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Whakamāu creates a sense of hope through scale, as a show of abundance. Aute in Aotearoa is in a state of re-remembering; the fibre is both precious and scarce. This work is about the abundance of fibre memory, not confined to the past. The patiki (diamond shapes) are symbols of abundance and are expansive portals through which we can draw connections to our past, present, and future.

The three muka (inner fibre of the harakeke plant) lines of stitching, stretching across the length of the cloth, are a nod to our practices of making hihimā and korowai. Hihimā and korowai were made with muka using weaving and looming techniques that developed in Aotearoa in response to the colder climate and the difficulty of growing aute. This difficulty in acquiring aute changed the way we interacted with it — it became rare, prized, and a sign of wealth, prosperity, and whakapapa.

I was taught by my dad that when we see pāua, we are looking towards the sea. Here, pāua is a reminder of our whakapapa across the moana, and our whanaunga across Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

To make something this large is, in itself, an act of resistance and a refusal to let our sacred practices be forgotten.
Ake, ake, ake.

This is part of a show called Vanilla curated by @a__uoy now showing at @caption.seoul and explore themes around the end of the world and what it means to live in a post apocalyptic landscape.

Curated by @a__uoy , showing at @caption.seoul Photos by @yujakim 🤍🤍🤍 by @atarangia

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4 months ago

Rere Aute has been quietly growing in the background for a long time.

Over the last few years, I’ve spent countless hours making, researching, visiting museums, talking and listening, writing, and asking questions. Much of that thinking never finds its way onto Instagram, yet it has become such an important part of my practice.

So I decided to create a place where it could live.

Rere Aute is a quarterly printed journal exploring the histories and practices of aute delivered to your letterbox four times a year. Each issue brings together research, pūrākau, studio reflections, imagery, interviews, and essays an invitation into the ideas shaping my work and the many ways aute continues to move through our lives.

Launching the first issue during Matariki feels especially meaningful. It is a season of remembrance, reflection, and looking towards the future.

Kaupeka Tuatahi — Te Mahara Matariki

Subscriptions are now open.
- Quarterly publication - $29.99 per issue - Delivered directly to your letterbox

If this speaks to you, I’d love to have you join Rere Aute.
Link in bio. 🤍 by @atarangia

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One of the most beautiful and powerful things about aute is their ability to bring people together. This mahi was massive and was never meant to be made alone. I couldn't be more grateful for everyone who showed up to help beat, cried with me on the floor of Bunnings (an iconic, mana-enhancing moment 😂), had long yarns, and unpacked the secrets of the universe. @fake_men_sleep_on_beds

This aute was such a beautiful reminder that this practice is held together by love, generosity, and people who simply show up. 💗
While it was physically exhausting, it also brought so much mental clarity, laughter, and aroha.

Thank you to my neighbours who popped in to help or simply say hello, to the people who stopped for a chat, to my friends who brought food, helped beat, and kept me going, to my flatmates, my darling friends, and Emil. Every one of you became part of the ecosystem that made this work possible.
Works like this don't exist because of one person. They exist because of community. I'm so deeply grateful for every pair of hands, every conversation, every meal, every laugh, and every moment of encouragement.
And finally, thank you to @a__uoy for all the behind the scenes work that made this exhibition possible. Thank you for every email, every detail you coordinated, and for curating such a beautiful exhibition. Your care and dedication are deeply appreciated. 🤍

This work carries all of you within it. 🤍

Curated by @a__uoy , showing at @caption.seoul Photos by @yujakim 💗💗💗💗 by @atarangia

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4 months ago

Kura-Aute.

A gathering of whānau to make kura-aute for newborn pēpi.

Aute is what we can use to navigate Te ao wairua, aute has long been connected to birth, wrapping, protection and care. Together we spent the day scraping, beating, stretching and shaping cloth, creating something to welcome new life into the into Te ao marama.

Thank you and some much love to @salvadorbrown @stelae.marks @rosannaraymond @maretadavidson @wamaana.massage @hana.tuwhare @vissualpoems @__pho3__ @__pupurangi
For letting me in and sharing a little part in your whanau’s journey.

These where made so that pēpē could be wrapped in aute once born/birth on too…skin to skin te kiri o te tane

thank you to @salvadorbrown for the epic audio vibes in this little video. The sounds of beating are taken from this wananga

Tāmaki Makaurau, 2024. 🌿 by @atarangia

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Kura-Aute.

These photos have been taken from our little kura-aute wananga by @__pho3__ one of the beautiful mama with @salvadorbrown @stelae.marks @maretadavidson @wamaana.massage @vissualpoems @__pho3__ @__pupurangi

Swiped to the end to see the little video

These where made so that pēpē could be wrapped in aute once born/birth on too…skin to skin te kiri o te tane

Tāmaki Makaurau, 2024. 🌿

PS, sorry Instagram has cut the portrait photos weirdly and I don’t know how to edit that. by @atarangia

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It’s been such a pleasure working alongside @georgiaahood and learning more about her uku conversation about papa and tane and Hina making, and dreaming up how the works.
So grateful for the time spent brainstorming and installing together. There’s something really special about building a show in that way.

Ngā mihi nui to everyone who came out on Saturday to support both my mahi and @georgiaahood . It honestly meant so much to share what we’ve been quietly working on and bring it into the light.

Feeling really proud to have been part of the opening of the new @grace_aotearoa 🤍 and our neighbours across the hall @4brvce

Mau ahua is on now at @grace_aotearoa till mid May 2026

xx by @atarangia

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7 months ago

A little sneak peek into what iv been working on lately.

Exciting this 28th November @lareepaynegallery ✨ by @atarangia

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