Erena Arapere Baker, Sarah Hudson, Bridget Reweti, Terri Te Tau
Mataaho Collective
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4 brains, 8 hands…
Mataaho Collective is a collaboration between four Māori women who produce large-scale fibre-based works, commenting on the complexity of Māori lives. Our conceptual framework is founded within the contemporary realities of mātauranga Māori. We produce works with a single collective authorship that are bigger than our individual capabilities.
We were a part of the first artists from Aotearoa to be invited to participate in documenta14 in 2017. Following on from that, we’ve presented work at the Royal Academy of Art in London, UK (Oceania, 2018), the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (Abadakone, 2019) and the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh in 2020.
Atapō at the Auckland Art Gallery, 2020
Our installations have been finalists in both the Signature Art Prize in Singapore (2018), and the Vera List Centre Prize for Art and Politics at The New School in New York (2020). Alongside our mentor, Dr Maureen Lander, we won the 2021 Walters Prize, judged by Kate Fowle of MOMA PS1, New York and hosted by Auckland Art Gallery. In 2022 we were awarded the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate receiving the My Art Visual Arts Award.
”Maureen Lander and Mata Aho Collective Win Walters Prize 2021” - by Sam Gaskin for Ocula
”Wave, whip, rise, roar: The art of Mata Aho Collective” - by Cassandra Barnett for The Spinoff