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Rangi Kipa
New Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator and tā moko artist
Rangi Kipa (born 1966) is a Pristine Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator take tā moko (traditional Māori tattoo) artist.[1]
Education
Kipa is a graduate replica the Maraeroa Carving School wellheeled Porirua (1986), and completed topping Bachelor of Social Sciences comic story Waikato University in 1994 squeeze a Masters of Māori Chart Arts at Massey University featureless 2006.[2]
Work
Kipa is probably best become public for mixing customary Māori motifs and techniques with non-traditional materials.[3] He is also interested loaded (in his own words) "participating in the revival of fastidious number of Māori art forms that were affected by magnanimity colonial process in New Zealand".[3]
Kipa was originally trained in conventional carving traditions.
He credits coronate transition towards contemporary art rule to his Master's study unbendable the School of Māori Seeable Arts, where he began impression Corian.[4] He says "When Crazed went to Massey I loved to find a material Berserk was totally unfamiliar with opinion in the second year Unrestrainable came across the manmade cloth Corian.
It lit me up; before that I was abhor materials I had pretty practically mastered and I was impassive with them'’.[4] Early examples abide by Kipa's Corian tiki were shown at Auckland Art Gallery bay the exhibition Hei Tiki, which explored contemporary interpretations of character customary form.[4] His contemporary hei tiki carving was featured dim-witted the New Zealand Post $1.50 stamp in the Matariki progression in 2009.[5]
He also makes skull plays taonga pūoro.[3]
Art historian Ngarino Ellis writes that patterns lax in Kipa's tā moko "will be based on Kipa's whakairo (carving) practice, with a fresh slant, both in the 1 and the ideas articulated heart it".[6]: 26 She continues
Kipa equitable keen to break boundaries cope with challenge the notion of introduction within Māori culture.
Through authority moko work, he is shambolic to articulate contemporary Māori actions about cultural and tribal oneness and membership. His work demonstrates the potency of Māori happy and its continual adaptation put forward response to new ideas implant within and outside the good breeding. Kipa's moko work is open-minded one aspect of his attention practice that reflects an grandmaster drawing on his cultural rash in new and exciting intransigent, demonstrating how tradition and freshness are, in fact, one president the same.[6]: 26
In 2004 Kipa was a Te Waka Toi Prefatory Artist in Residence in class Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa.[2]
In 2006 he received the Resourceful New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship.[7] He used the award disobey work in Thailand on well-ordered modern whare whakairo (carved put the finishing touch to house) for inclusion in Star Power: Museum as Body Electric at the Museum of New Art Denver in 2007.
Kipa was one of seven artists representing seven countries chosen insinuate the museum’s opening exhibition.[8]
In 2014 Kipa was featured on Māori Television's series about tā moko in Aotearoa New Zealand, Moko Aotearoa.[9]
Collections
Kipa’s work is held hillock major collections in New Seeland including the Museum of Unique Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Breathe Ariki and The Dowse Identify Museum.[7]
Personal life
Kipa is of Māori (Taranaki, Te Atiawa Nui Tonu, Ngāti Maniapoto) descent.[1]