Paerau Corneal
Paerau Corneal (b 1961) is a New Zealand ceramicist of Tūwharetoa and Te Āti Haunui-a-Paparangi descent.
Education
Corneal holds a Certificate in Craft Design 1988 and a Diploma in Craft Design Māori 1991 from Waiariki Institute of Technology.[1]
Career
Corneal has exhibited both internationally and nationally since 1988. A consistent theme in her work is Māori female empowerment.[2] From 2013 Corneal has been collaborating with contemporary Māori dancer Louise Potiki-Bryant. Their performance work entitled Kiri references a creation narrative of the first Māori human, Hineahuone and opened for the 2014 Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland.[3]
Throughout her career, Corneal has been involved in varying artist collectives.[4] She was a founding member, alongside Manos Nathan, Baye Riddell, Wi Taepa and Colleen Waata Urlich of Ngā Kaihanga Uku, a collective of Māori Clay workers.[5] Corneal was also involved with Kauwae, a collective of Māori women artists formed in 1997; Te Rōpū o Ngā Wāhine Kai Whakairo, a collective of Māori women carvers and Haeata Women’s Collective.[2]
Selected exhibitions
- 2013-5 Uku Rere, Ngā Kaihanaga Uku. Pataka Art + Museum; Whangarei Art Museum Te Manawa Toi; the Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu; Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato; Tairawhiti Museum Te Whare Taonga o te Tairawhiti; and Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science + History.[6]
- 2014 Slip Cast, The Dowse Art Museum[7]
- 2009 Kauwae 09, Kauwae Group, a national collective of Mäori women artists. Tairawhiti Museum.[8]
- 2005 Manawa: Pacific heartbeat. Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver. [9]
- 2003 Kiwa: Pacific connections: Maori art from Aotearoa. Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver.[10]
- 2003-5 Ngā Toko Rima, Ngā Kaihanga Uku. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Tinakori Gallery, Wellington.[2]
- 2002 Sisters Yakkananna/Kahui Mareikura. Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.[11]
- 1998 Uku! Uku! Uku! International Festival of the Arts, Wellington[1]
- 1992 Treasures of the Underworld. World Expo, Seville; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Collections
Corneal's work is held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McPherson, Heather; King, M; Evans, J; Nunn, M (1992). Spiral 7: a collection of lesbian art and writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Dunedin: Spiral. ISBN 0908896247.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Smith, Huhana; Solomon, Oriwa; Tamarapa, Awhina; Tamati-Quenell, Megan; Heke, Norm (2007). Taiawhio II: Contemporary Māori Artists 18 new conversations. Wellington: Te Papa Press. ISBN 9780909010096.
- ↑ Rae, Bernadette (2014). "Dance Review: Kiri, Mataqali Drift, Tempo Dance Festival". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ↑ "Paerau Corneal". Spirit Wrestler Gallery. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ↑ "Uku Rere". Pataka Art + Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ↑ "Uku Rere". Toi Māori. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ↑ "Slip Cast". The Dowse Art Museum. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- ↑ "Exhibitions" (PDF). Tairawhiti Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ↑ "Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat". Spirit Wrestler Gallery. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ↑ Reading, Nigel; Grant, June (2003). Kiwa: Pacific connections, Māori art from Aotearoa. Vancouver B. C.: Spirit Wrestler Gallery. ISBN 1896954340.
- ↑ Cubillo, Francesca; Te Ao, Ngapine (2002). Sisters: Yakkananna, Kahui mareikura. Adelaide: National Aboriginal Cultural Centre.
- ↑ "Collections Online". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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