Kilford’s series Te Māra Tautāne explores and celebrates invisible whakapapa connections between the earthly and celestial realms at Matariki. It is an offering to Matariki as the constellation enters the Tangaroa phase of the Maramataka.
https://www.thebigidea.nz/events/223563-te-mara-tautane-angela-kilford
Kilford’s series Te Māra Tautāne explores and celebrates invisible whakapapa connections between the earthly and celestial realms at Matariki. It is an offering to Matariki as the constellation enters the Tangaroa phase of the Maramataka.
https://www.thebigidea.nz/events/223563-te-mara-tautane-angela-kilford
Tuatara
Inspired by the whakapapa story of shark and tuatara; in which the two beings, one a water creature and the other a reptile are brothers.
Pōhutukawa
Whaleskin - kauri
Kōwhai ngutukākā
Ruru
Tangaroa ā mua
Tangaroa ā mua, the first moon phase of Matariki, is depicted by the small white flowers of the Ngaio tree, evoking the whakapapa story of Rona and the moon, where Rona is plucked from earth, and taken to the moon whilst holding onto a Ngaio tree.
The 8 phases of the Maramataka as depicted in the Courtenay Place Lightbox exhibition were inspired by Rangi Matamua’s Matariki, the star of the year and also from writings and ideas expressed by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal and Mere Roberts.
