TUKU: Open Studio Emerging Māori artists 18 May - 28 June 2026

Come down to Puke Ariki and watch fresh treasures being created before your eyes! Over six weeks in May and June, early career artists Dwayne Duthie and Jodie Tipa will be at work adorning manaia (guardian figures), under the direction of senior artist-designer WharehokaSmith.

Talk with the artists about this unique collaborative project, which prepares the space for the arrival of 40 tūpuna (ancestor) portraits from around Aotearoa, as part of the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, opening 25 July at Puke Ariki. See the manaia come into being, as each artist extends their visual arts practice through this customary form.

https://pukeariki.com/museum/exhibitions/upcoming/tuku-open-studio-emerging-maori-artists

Updated April 16, 2026
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Taiawhio II : Contemporary Maori artists : 18 new conversations
Smith, Huhana.
Paper Book
Taiäwhio: Conversations with Contemporary Mäori artists, now in its third reprint, has proven invaluable to art lovers, students, teachers and those with a passion for New Zealand art. This new volume profiles a fresh range of contemporary Mäori artists. Each profile contains pages of information...
Mau moko : the world of Māori tattoo
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia.
Paper Book
In the traditional Maori world, the moko, or facial or body tattoo, was a sign of great mana and status. Male warriors wore elaborate tattoos on their faces and bodies; women took more delicate chin tattoos. After almost dying out in the twentieth century, Maori tattooing is now experiencing a...
John Bevan Ford : paintings
Panny, Judith Dell
Paper Book
M?ori art and design : a guide to classic weaving, painting, carving and architecture
Paama-Pengelly, Julie
Paper Book
For early Maori, art was inseparable from daily life, whether it was the pattern on a sculpted spade handle or the magnificently carved prow of a war canoe. Julie Paama-Pengelly traces the evolution of art and design in historic Maori culture and brings that art to life, focusing on four major...
Taiawhio : conversations with contemporary Maori artists
Smith, Huhana.
Paper Book
Fascinating profiles of more than 20 M ori artists working in various media. Superbly illustrated and accessibly written, this is an ideal resource for anyone interested in contemporary art and art history in New Zealand. The artists included in Tai?whio are: Jolene Douglas, Star Gossage, Fred...
Ta moko : the art of M?ori tattoo
Simmons, D. R.
Paper Book
A detailed study of mokos, Maori tattoos. The text traces the historical development, tribal variations, design principles, and social significance of the moko. The book has 143 black and white line drawings and photographs, and 26 colour plates of paintings and carvings. A bibliography and index...
Moko : Maori tattooing in the 20th century
King, Michael
Paper Book
The story of a Maori art form that underwent a brief resurgence and then died. This book also tells the story of the last generation of Maori women who wore the moko. The photographs illustrate the moko itself, the women who wore it and the environments in which they lived.
An illustrated guide to M?ori art
Barrow, Terence
Paper Book
The arts of the Maori are among the most alluring and sophisticated of the Pacific peoples. They developed their skills through centuries of endeavour and craft experimentation, expressing religious and artistic ideas in wood, stone, bone, shell and other materials. In particular, their carving and...
Mataora : the living face : contemporary Maori art
Adsett, Sandy
Paper Book
This text presents a comprehensve artistic, cultural and political statement about the state of contemporary Maori art.
Greenstone trails : the Maori search for pounamu
Brailsford, Barry
Paper Book
I shall not die : Titokowaru's War, 1868-1869
Belich, James
Paper Book
Straddling the Maori and European worlds of the 1860s, Titokowaruwas one of New Zealand's greatest leaders. A brilliant strategist, he used every device to save the Taranaki people from European invasion. When peaceful negotiation failed, he embarked on a stunning military campaign against...
Te Motunui Epa
Buchanan, Rachel
Paper Book
'This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki.' Commissioned, created, mounted, dismantled, hidden,...
Ask that mountain : the story of Parihaka
Scott, Dick
Paper Book
Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a struggle that...
Making connections : John Bevan Ford, M?ori artist
Smith, Jill
Paper Book
P?keh?-M?ori narratives, a New Zealand genre : first-hand accounts by Europeans who lived as M?ori in early New Zealand
Bentley, Trevor
Paper Book
Pkeh-Mori narratives is a collection of 20 first-hand accounts written or dictated by European men who voluntarily crossed cultures to live and trade among the Mori tribes of New Zealand during the 1800s. ... With notes that provide biographical, historical and cultural context, this anthology...
Guns and utu : a short history of the musket wars
Wright, Matthew
Paper Book
In Guns and Utu, popular historian Matthew Wright disputes the many mythologies of these wars, examining some of the whys and wherefores of this generation-long culture collision.
Ng? waka o neher? = the first voyaging canoes
Evans, Jeff
Paper Book
Nga Waka o Nehera is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand including lists of the waka, names of crew members and vessels, karakia and waiata, and maps. A must for lovers of history, students of Maori and nautical enthusiasts, the book is...
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict
Belich, James
Paper Book
Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of 'Victorian interpretation' to acknowledge those qualities, Belich's account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. Māori, in Belich's view,...
Potiki
Grace, Patricia
Paper Book
This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by "Dollarmen" -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols...
Tangi
Ihimaera, Witi
Paper Book
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Maori author. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story...
Tu
Grace, Patricia
Paper Book
In this new novel acclaimed Maori novelist Patricia Grace visits the often terrifying and complex world faced by men of the Maori Battalion in Italy during World War II. Tu is proud of his name--the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war...
P?tea boys = Ng?ti P?tea
Ngarewa, Airana
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Bone Tree comes a lively and playful bilingual collection of stories about growing up in Pātea. Interlinked and full of recurring characters, these stories are about growing up in small-town Aotearoa - sneaking away during cross country,...
Te manu tukutuku : the Maori kite
Maysmor, Bob.
Paper Book
Maori kites are enjoying a remarkable cultural resurgence. In his introduction to his revised and expanded edition of the classic work on this art form, Professor Hirini Moko Mead says Bob Maysmor's book has played a valuable role in the revival of interest in kite-making. Te Manu Tukutuku covers...
Days of darkness : Taranaki, 1878-1884
Riseborough, Hazel
Paper Book
The narrative of the Parihaka community sheds light on a critical period in Aotearoa's colonial past. As the government seized their land, Maori communities across the region engaged in non-violent resistance, with Parihaka emerging as a powerful symbol of defiance under the leadership of Te Whiti o...
Tikanga whakaaro : key concepts in M?ori culture
Barlow, Cleve.
Paper Book
Important concepts in Maori culture are defined and discussed in short essay-style definitions in both English and Maori. The traditional knowledge of the ware wananga (school of learning) is drawn upon, and modern usage of Maori language is also described.
Maui : the legend of the demi-god Maui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga
Erlbeck, Hana Hiraina.
Paper Book
M?ori architecture : from fale to wharenui and beyond
Brown, Deidre
Paper Book
Examines facets of early Polynesian settlement, the influence of Christian and western technology, the buildings of religio-political movements such as Ringatu, Parihaka and Ratana, post-war urban migration, and contemporary architecture.
M?ori art : history, architecture, landscape and theory
Panoho, Rangihiroa
Paper Book
Traditionally books on Maori art have described the work as either 'traditional' (as in the arts of carving, weaving, painting) or 'contemporary', that is work produced post-1950s. This book presents a unique focus on Maori art by exploring the connection between the traditional and contemporary,...
Tohunga whakairo : Paki Harrison : the story of a master carver
Walker, Ranginui.
Paper Book
Paki Harrison is widely regarded as New Zealand's greatest living master carver, a man with a huge reputation as a leading tohunga of the art form. He possesses immense knowledge about the traditional arts of the carver, extending way beyond the actual physical arts to include its most ancient...
The passing world, the passage of life : John Hovell and the art of kowhaiwhai
Skinner, Damian.
Paper Book
He has been described as a Maori Michelangelo. Julia Stuart of Toanga magazine aptly portrayed Maori artist John Hovell as gifted because of his artistic creations on the ceilings of prominent community buildings. Hovell has recently collaborated with established Art historian Damian Skinner to...
Toi t?, toi ora : contemporary M?ori art
Borell, Nigel
Paper Book
Maori art is unique among all art movements, and to Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on centuries of indigenous knowledge and skill, it reflects a Maori world view, life in this land and the debates that continue to shape it. Based on the ground-breaking 2020-21 exhibition staged by...
The carver and the artist : M?ori art in the twentieth century
Skinner, Damian
Paper Book
In The Carver and the Artist Damian Skinner charts the growth and development of the new forms of Māori art that emerged from the rapid urbanisation of Māori in the mid-twentieth century. He tells the story of the customary culture championed by Apirana Ngata at the Rotorua School of M&...
Toi te mana : an Indigenous history of M?ori art
Brown, Deidre
Paper Book
He toi whakairo, he mana tangata. Through artistic excellence, there is human dignity. Toi Te Mana is a landmark account of Māori art from the time of the tūpuna (ancestors) to the present day. In 600 pages and over 500 extraordinary...
Whakairo : Maori tribal art
Simmons, D. R.
Paper Book
This is the first analysis of Maori carving styles by tribal area. Simmons draws on the work of Kendall and an important new source to provide a coherent analysis of style and symbolism in Maori carving. The first part of the book discusses the mythological context and symbolism in Maori art, and...
Te M?ori : M?ori art from New Zealand collections
Mead, Sidney M.
Paper Book
Kura Te Waru Rewiri : a Maori woman artist
Highfield, Camilla.
Paper Book
"Overview of the work of [the artist] discusses the major themes of her paintings produced from 1985 to 1998"--Back cover.
Maori plaiting patterns = Raranga whakairo
Pendergrast, Mick
Paper Book
Life & times of Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha, Tamihana
Paper Book
Extracts from the writings of Tamihana Te Rauparaha, originally written in Maori.
Te Ao hurihuri : aspects of Maoritanga
King, Michael
Paper Book
An authoratitive account of te ao Maori written in the 1970's during a period when there were few Maori voices heard in the public debate on the relevance and role of Maoritanga in the modern world. Edited by Michael King.
Tihe mauri ora : aspects of Maoritanga
King, Michael
Paper Book
Tikao talks : ka taoka tapu o te ao kohatu : treasures from the ancient world of the Maori
Tikao, Teone Taare
Paper Book
Teone Taare Tikao, who died in 1927, was one of the most respected rangatira of the South Island. Trained as a boy in the ways of the tohunga, he was acknowledged to have a vast knowledge of M'ori mythology, history and culture. In 1920 his great knowledge was tapped by the historian Herries Beattie...
100 New Zealand paintings : by 100 New Zealand artists
Brown, Warwick
Paper Book
"... collection of ... contemporary New Zealand painting ... accompanying each painting is an overview of each artist's life and work"--Flap.
New Zealand women artists : a survey of 150 years
Kirker, Anne
Paper Book
'It has been my intention to uncover the personal identity of those women who have heeded their abilities as artists. In short, I wanted to answer the questions of what these women have done and who they are ... The fact that an artist happens to be a woman counts.'. The identities of serious women...

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