Dr Rangihiroa Panoho

Dr Rangihiroa Panoho

Auckland, AUCKLAND

My visual practice grows out of my background as a Foundational Māori Curator & Māori Art Historian .

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Yueh, 'The People of the Axe', encaustic on board with kauri window frame, 2016 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho Image: 'Yueh...' the painting references Okoihu, the fighting pā 'palisaded fortification of the northern leader Kūkūpa. It stands opposite the ancestral mountain Whatitiri and was the site for an ancestor receiving the name Pā noho (to sit) as a consequence of his protesting the breaking up of the maunga by the Crown into 15 farms in 1897. Yueh the term is originally a reference to a Neolithic people occupying the northern coast of China who eventually migrated across the strait to Taiwan where a proto-Austronesian ocean going vessel culture was developed.
'Yueh...' the painting references Okoihu, the fighting pā 'palisaded fortification of the northern leader Kūkūpa. It stands opposite the ancestral mountain Whatitiri and was the site for an ancestor receiving the name Pā noho (to sit) as a consequence of his protesting the breaking up of the maunga by the Crown into 15 farms in 1897. Yueh the term is originally a reference to a Neolithic people occupying the northern coast of China who eventually migrated across the strait to Taiwan where a proto-Austronesian ocean going vessel culture was developed.
Yueh, 'The People of the Axe', encaustic on board with kauri window frame, 2016 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho Image: This image by Mark Adams is of the fortified pā Okoihu once occupued by the rangatira Kukupa. It looks directly across to Whatitiri and featured in my book 'MAORI ART, History, Architecture, Landscape and Theory' published by David Bateman, 2015/2018
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  • Yueh, 'The People of the Axe', encaustic on board with kauri window frame, 2016
  • charcoal, acrylic ink, encaustic and printed paper collage
  • Inv: IOU15_YuehSacredAxe16
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  • Subject Matter: tribal landscape, Te Uriroroi, Chinese neolithic, kūkūpa 'native NZ pigeon

Other Work From Dr Rangihiroa Panoho

Ka hoka i te manu aute (ko Tuhoronuku) o Rāhiri mā runga i te pā Whiria a Hokianga, 2020 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Ohāeawai, 2020 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
He Kuri Māori a runga o te pou, preparatory sketch, 2020 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Ruapekapeka, Ōhaeawai and Te Ruki Kawiti, Northern Series , 20 April 2020 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Kei whao, kei roto i te whare karakia Mikaera, Mihinare, Ōhaeawai, 30-Apr-21 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Ko te Pare Kawakawa, he tohu aroha, 24 April 2018, 635x635mm by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Ko te karawhiti ki te uru inanga a te wharenui o Kawana Hori Kerei, 'arboglyphs', bamboo grove, Grey's Mansion, Kawau Island , 5 February 2017 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Āku Maunga Haere by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Fiji/Te Whiti by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
Āku Maunga Haere, 1, Te Ārai Series, 2012 by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
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