MARAEA TIMUTIMU | MĀORI MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
Lives: Tauranga - Māori descent: Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Tuhoe
A contemporary Māori artist with a distinct focus on storytelling through pattern and rhythm. Drawing from her learning in raranga (traditional weaving), Timutimu employs pattern, repetition and rhythm as a means to evoke memory and the retention of histories and stories.
“There is power in connecting to your pepeha in a literal way. The painting is your maunga, your awa or your moana.”
About Maraea
Maraea Timutimu is a multi-disciplinary artist from Tauranga Moana. She’s an art kaiako in Tauranga, and a former student of Queen Victoria Māori Girls Boarding School. Maraea has produced work across a wide range of mediums through paint, sculpture, printmaking and installation. Often coming back to our traditional arts, poi, tukutuku, and raranga.
Maraea was introduced to natural dyes and colour pigments during time as a student of Tina Wirihana at Te Wānanga o Awanuiarangi. In recent times, whenua has become a medium for her to explore connection and whakapapa, as she brings together pigments from Tūhoe, Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi te Rangi. It has become a way to document the places to which she belongs.
Alongside using whenua pigments in her individual art practice, Maraea is also engaged in the kaupapa of sharing this knowledge with her wider hapori.
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