Tauranga Art Gallery is thrilled to be the final venue for this ground-breaking exhibition, showing ceramics by the five principal members of Nga Kaihanga Uku: Baye Riddell, Manos Nathan, Colleen Urlich, Wi Taepa and Paerau Corneal.
The Nga Kaihanga Uku organisation of Maori clay workers began in 1986 by a group of artists drawn together by the common desire to make artworks in clay based on Kaupapa Maori.
Maori had no tradition of working creatively with clay so Nga Kaihanga Uku provided a co-operative network for artists interested in this medium enabling them to share knowledge and skills.