Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka
Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka is a Māori artist of Ngā Puhi, Ngati Pakau and Waitaha descent. The focus of Ruka’s arts-based research practice is the development of possible net positive futures from an indigenous perspective. Exploring the inherent need to connect to nature on a deeper level living in an urban environment, Ruka examines this innate relationship to nature as a Māori artist.
Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka on CIRCUIT · 3 works
Come for a Walk (2020)
The artist's mother performs a karakia and asks Tāwhirimatea and Tangaroa to help those who are in trouble.
Kohatu Tipua (Supernatural Stones) (2020)
Images of seabird migration are combined with digital weaving and mōteatea (song poetry, traditionally chanted).
Whenua | makutu #1 Mt Taranaki (2014)
A latticework of imagery designed to protect tupuna maunga from proposed mining operations.
Writing & podcasts featuring Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka
Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
In this podcast, Moya Lawson speaks with two artists currently exhibiting public artworks in Wellington which celebrate Matariki.