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Tawa Rikihana - Featured Artist – Coromind Issue 20, 2024
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Tawa Rikihana, also known as Derrick ‘Rick’ Rikihana, is a Māori artist from the Te Arawa iwi and the Tuhourangi-Tarawhai hapū. His Awa (ancestral river) is Te Wairoa, and his Maunga (mountain) is Tarawera. Rick’s wharenui, Hinemihi o Tarawhai, holds significant cultural importance to him and his whānau.
I asked Rick if I could meet him and photograph his art. He said most of his paintings were gone; he gave them to friends or sold them. Other pieces were gone, gone; he painted over them. I asked why, and Rick said …
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