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- Raukura Turei is a multi-disciplinary artist, architect, and designer currently based in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Raukura Turei is a multi-disciplinary artist, architect and designer of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and Ngā Rauru Kītahi iwi, based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She received her Master of Architecture (Prof) from the University of Auckland in 2011 and registered as an architect with the NZRAB in 2015.
She is a principal at Monk Mackenzie Architects in Tāmaki Mākaurau (Auckland), where she leads projects working with iwi that range from large-scale masterplanning of Papakāinga (Māori Housing), to Marae and community-focused developments. She was awarded Emerging Designer at the NZ Interior Awards 2022 and is an advocate for the expression of Te Ao Māori in the built environment.
In her art practice, Turei uses whenua (earth) collected from Papatūānuku to explore notions of whakapapa (genealogy) and deepen her connection to her tūrangwaewae (ancestral lands). Her art work has been exhibited in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.
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Raukura Turei
Bio
Raukura Tūrei (Ngāitai ki Tāmaki-Tainui, Ngā Rauru Kītahi) has, in recent years, created a unique body of work which navigates gestural abstraction in conjunction with a diverse range of environmentally sourced materials such as onepū (black or iron sand) which enable her to connect to traditional Māori practice and make inherent the concept of ‘maker’s mark’ in her work.
Her large-scale, multi-panel work Te Poho o Hine-Moana (2021) was recently exhibited at Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau as part of the travelling exhibition Mark Work. The work in the Haerenga collection He Tukuna I could be described as the teina or little sister to this monumental 6 part frieze, acquired by the Chartwell Collection. Tūrei is a multi-discipline artist and graduated with a Master of Architecture (Prof) from the University of Auckland in 2011.
Exhibitions
- Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau: Mark Work
2021
He Tukuna I, 2020
Oil, raw pigment and onepū (black sand) on linen, two panels600 x 600mm each; 600 x 1200mm overall
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I didn’t grow up with my Kuia, my Dad’s mother, and he didn’t either. He went into foster care as a baby as a ward of the State, so didn’t grow up with his birth brothers and sisters, however they all lived in the suburb of Henderson, West Auckland in close proximity to each other. It was just before she passed away that he almost found her, just before I was born. She passed away prematurely in her sixties, fishing on the rocks at Te Henga [Bethells Beach]. There are fragments of her story from my Aunty who did grow up with her, and my cousins who knew her as children. Then there are also the Social Welfare files on her where the State agency back then went about writing case files that legitimised why they took Māori children off their mothers. There’s nothing positive in the case files. But it’s something.
These fragments of stories are one side, but for me a more personal connection is that I feel her presence when I am at the West Coast. When I swim in the water, I feel this incredible sense of release of the unknown grief that I carry that comes out in lots of weird differ