Please join us as we open our 2025 programme – and TMG’s 200th exhibition – with a group show of work by ten Māori artists working across painting, installation, uku, sculpture and photography.
At the opening of the Rugby World Cup in 1999 Hinewehi Mohi performed New Zealand’s national anthem in Te Reo Māori.
She received huge backlash in the NZ press at the time but today, 25 years later, we are reminded how far our country has come when school-children sing the anthem as easily in Te Reo Māori as they do in Te Reo Pākehā.
As another Waitangi Day approaches, and as the NZ Justice Committee hears public submissions on the Government’s Treaty Principles Bill, the words of the late
Ngāpuhi statesman, Sir James Henare, whisper in our ears:
“You have come too far, not to go further. You have done too much, not to do more.”
HIRIA ANDERSON-MITA
Rereahu, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura
RUSS FLATT
Ngāti Kahungunu
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Ngāti Haupoto, Ngāti Haumia, Ngāi Wetenga, Ngāti Moeahu, Taranaki iwi. Parihaka.
KIM IRELAND
Tūhourangi, Tapuika
TRACY KEITH
Ngāpuhi
TAWHAI RICKARD
Ngāti Uepohatu, Ngāti Porou
NGATAIHARURU TAEPA
Te Arawa, Te Atiawa
SARA TAUTUKU ORME
Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa; Ngāti Tarawhai, Ngāti Whākaue, Ngāti Pikiao
MARAEA TIMUTIMU
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngaiterangi, Ngāti Ranginui
NEPHI TUPAEA
Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Tiipa, Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Ngāti Kahungunu
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
NEPHI TUPAEA
Papakāinga
2024
acrylic on canvas
1220mm H x 1520mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
SARA TAUTUKU ORME
Jock 322, Texas
2023
Inkjet photograph on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
475mm H x 715mm W
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
SARA TAUTUKU ORME
Darling, Tarawera
2023
Inkjet photograph on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
475mm H x 715mm W
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Ngataiharuru Taepa
Te Kura Tētē
2022
acrylic and ochre on Latvian birch
609mm H x 467mm W x 43mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
MARAEA TIMUTIMU
Tai Timu, Tai Pari / The ebbing tide and the flood tide
2024
whenua pigment on Fabriano paper
905mm H x 695mm W (frame)
MARAEA TIMUTIMU
Te Pakanga ō Kōkōwai / The Battle of Kōkōwai
2024
whenua pigment on Fabriano paper
905mm H x 695mm W (frame)
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
SARA TAUTUKU ORME
Te Whare, Texas
2014
Inkjet photograph on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
690mm H x 1030mm W
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
KIM IRELAND
Hinetītama
2024
uku / clay ceramic (2 pieces)
L: 125mm H x 30mm Dia
R: 300mm H x 150mm Dia
Tracy Keith
Fission
2021
raku-fired ceramic
445mm H x 350mm Dia
Tracy Keith
Rakaunui Vessel (Highest Phase)
2024
raku-fired ceramic
380mm H x 430mm W x 200mm D
Tracy Keith
Rakaunui Vessel (Highest Phase)
2024
raku-fired ceramic
380mm H x 430mm W x 200mm D
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
TAWHAI RICKARD
Four of a Kind
2024
Installation view
TAWHAI RICKARD
Christopher Luxon, King of Tax Free Diamonds (Four of a Kind)
2024
acrylic on shaped wooden panel
310mm H x 230mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
TAWHAI RICKARD
Rua Kenana, King of Broken Hearts (Four of a Kind)
2024
acrylic on shaped wooden panel
310mm H x 230mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
TAWHAI RICKARD
King Tāwhiao, Maori King of Spades (Four of a Kind)
2024
acrylic on shaped wooden panel
310mm H x 230mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
TAWHAI RICKARD
Governor Grey, King of War Clubs (Four of a Kind)
2024
acrylic on shaped wooden panel
310mm H x 230mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
TAWHAI RICKARD
Queen Victoria, Queen of Blood Diamonds (Four of a Kind)
2024
acrylic on shaped wooden panel
310mm H x 230mm W x 20mm D
PRIVATE COLLECTION
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Article 2
2025
repurposed New Zealand wool blanket, embroidery silk, ribbon
1600mm H x 1750mm W (as installed)
28 pieces, installation dimensions variable
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Article 2 (detail)
2025
repurposed New Zealand wool blanket, embroidery silk, ribbon
1600mm H x 1750mm W (as installed)
28 pieces, installation dimensions variable
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Article Two (detail)
2025
repurposed New Zealand wool blanket, embroidery silk, ribbon
1600mm H x 1750mm W (as installed)
28 pieces, installation dimensions variable
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Article 2 (detail)
2025
repurposed New Zealand wool blanket, embroidery silk, ribbon
1600mm H x 1750mm W (as installed)
28 pieces, installation dimensions variable
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Article 2 (detail)
2025
repurposed New Zealand wool blanket, embroidery silk, ribbon
1600mm H x 1750mm W (as installed)
28 pieces, installation dimensions variable
NGAHINA HOHAIA
Article 2
2025
repurposed New Zealand wool blanket, embroidery silk, ribbon
1600mm H x 1750mm W (as installed)
28 pieces, installation dimensions variable
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
Russ Flatt
Arohanui
2021
inkjet photograph on Ilford Cotton Rag
1000mm H x 1500mm W
Edition: AP
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
Hiria Anderson-Mita
Letters to the Ancestors (Toitū Te Tiriti)
2025
acrylic on canvas
350mm H x 300mm W
Hiria Anderson-Mita
Exodus, Movement of the People (Toitū Te Tiriti)
2025
acrylic on canvas
350mm H x 300mm W
Hiria Anderson-Mita
We’re the Survivors (Toitū Te Tiriti)
2025
acrylic on canvas
350mm H x 300mm W
Hiria Anderson-Mita
HAKA BOY!! HAKA! (Toitū Te Tiriti)
2025
acrylic on canvas
350mm H x 300mm W
COLLECTION TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO MUSEUM
Hiria Anderson-Mita
Black Night (Toitū Te Tiriti)
2025
acrylic on canvas
350mm H x 300mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary (detail)
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
TAWHAI RICKARD
Victorian Cast Iron Waka of Inevitable Kiboshary
2024
acrylic on carved wood with repurposed domestic furniture
1050mm H x 1000mm W x 600mm D
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view
He waka eke noa / We're all in this together
2025
Installation view