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Ngataiharuru Taepa was born on 1976 in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, is a New Zealand artist. Discover Ngataiharuru Taepa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?
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Ngataiharuru Taepa Height, Weight & Measurements
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Ngataiharuru Taepa Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ngataiharuru Taepa worth at the age of 48 years old? Ngataiharuru Taepa’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from New Zealand. We have estimated Ngataiharuru Taepa's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Ngataiharuru Taepa (born 1976 in Upper Hutt) is a New Zealand artist of Māori (Te Ati Awa, Te Arawa) and Pākehā descent.
Taepa is currently the Kaihautu Toi Māori – Director of Māori Arts at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University.
Taepa is known particularly for his works that use Western art techniques to explore traditional kowhaiwhai (rafter painting) forms.
He reproduces the intricate forms of kowhaiwhai using modern materials and manufacturing processes including digital routers, acrylic laminates, stencils on PVC pipes and steel, and digitally carved plywood.
"Kōwhaiwhai is an expression of the way our ancestors saw the world in their time. Their achievement, using positive and negative spaces, was to have the colours interact simultaneously – as opposed to how most people think now. Now we're taught to see the positive space and not the space around it. It's one of the simple conventions of kōwhaiwhai, but for me it's achieving excellence through simplicity. How do you get to that level? That's what fires me up."
He cites Robert Jahnke, Shane Cotton and Kura Te Waru Rewiri (who all taught him at art school) as significant influences, along with Māori language revivalists including Taiarahia Black, Ian Christensen and Pare Richardson.
In 2000 Taepa was elected onto Te Atinga, the visual arts committee of the Māori arts advocacy organisation Toi Māori Aotearoa.
Taepa's work is held in a number of public collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington City Council and the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Ngataiharuru Taepa's father is artist Wi Taepa and his brother Kereama Taepa is also an artist.
Ngataiharuru recalls that when his father began to study art at Whitireia Polytechnic 'I would sit around the kitchen table and listen to people like Manos Nathan, Darcy Nicholas, Robyn Kahukiwa and Ngamoana Raureti.
All these people were talking about the issues of the time.
... I have been really fortunate in that way and it's shaped my work and how I work.
It inspired me and also gave me a little bit of knowledge, hearing about the struggles they faced as Māori artists, the different issues and how they have dealt with them.'
In 2015 Taepa collaborated with Michel Tuffery on a light display commissioned to mark the opening of Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.
